At this year’s Art Basel Miami, the luxury watchmaker Hublot was a major sponsor, Leonardo DiCaprio flew in to sniff out some supermodel pussy, and both Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus had artworks on display. The Art Basel art fairs, once the domain of ArtReview and Wallpaper*, are moving into E! Network territory. The world of contemporary art is shifting. It ain’t hard to tell, I’m the new Jean-Michel Widow Basquiat is about the artist, about Mallouk, and about the indulgent, hedonistic ’80s art world but is only being printed in its first American edition in 2014. Widow Basquiat was first published in 2000 in the U.K. Widow Basquiat: A Love Story is a biography of Suzanne Mallouk, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s long-time lover and muse, written by their friend Jennifer Clement. He knew the museum and its collection intimately and he challenged Mallouk to pick out a work by a black artist. The artist Jean-Michel Basquiat once took his lover Suzanne Mallouk on a trip to the MoMA.
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