Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art » (Revised Edition)

Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was the Jimi Hendrix of the art world. This biography charts his trajectory from his troubled childhood to his volatile passage through the mostly white world of art dealers and nouveau riche collectors.

Patricia Bosworth

The book [is] compulsively readable. There is enormous value in it, especially in Hoban's depiction of the glitzy 1980's art world, which is sharply etched and deadly accurate. She describes a place where sex, imagination and intelligence have been so brutalized by greed and celebrity the cumulative effect is numbing. -- NY Times Book Review