{"id":278123,"date":"2025-11-07T22:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/278123\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T22:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:47:09","slug":"studio-museum-is-now-one-of-the-few-museums-with-a-basquiat-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/278123\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio Museum Is Now One of the Few Museums with a Basquiat Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAhead of its public reopening on November 15, the Studio Museum in Harlem<\/a> showed off its new building to the press on Thursday, revealing a multitude of treasures that have entered its holdings since its closure in 2018\u2014including the first Jean-Michel Basquiat<\/a> painting to join the museum\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe painting, titled Bayou (1984), was gifted to the New York museum in 2023 by the financier Joseph Perella and his wife Amy. Joseph was a mentor to Raymond J. McGuire<\/a>, an investment banking executive and an ARTnews Top 200 Collector who serves as the Studio Museum\u2019s board chair.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhile a Basquiat in a museum setting may hardly raise a brow, this is a landmark acquisition because few other institutions in the US own paintings by the artist.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Museum of Modern Art, for example, has in the past shown a painting by Basquiat, Glenn (1985), but always as a loan from an unidentified collector\u2014the museum does not own the piece. Critic Bob Nickas called the loan<\/a> \u201ca very public announcement that a Basquiat is absent from the museum\u2019s holdings, an enticement for owners and donors who may come forth\u2014or come to the rescue, as it were.\u201d One such donor appears to have done just not that, not at MoMA but at the Studio Museum. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Whitney Museum, on the other hand, has frequently shown its prized Basquiat, a 1983 painting called Hollywood Africans<\/a>, since acquiring the piece in the \u201980s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art appears to only have gained its first Basquiat paintings<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n

\n\tA bit about Bayou: the painting features a partially rendered multiplication table, scrawled words such as \u201cWASTEWATER\u201d and \u201cSOUTH,\u201d and a slender hand. Those references to water and the South may relate to Basquiat\u2019s time spent in New Orleans, along the Mississippi River. Bayou was likely featured in 1985 at Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, the Zurich enterprise that helped make Basquiat internationally famous, and has now found a permanent home in Basquiat\u2019s hometown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of its public reopening on November 15, the Studio Museum in Harlem showed off its new building…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88,85702,52927],"class_list":{"0":"post-278123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-jean-michel-basquiat","14":"tag-studio-museum-in-harlem"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}