Martin Burgoyne, Jean Michel Basquiat & Madonna

Martin Burgoyne, Jean Michel Basquiat & Madonna. Real Artists when the Lower East Side was really the Lower East Side with junk hole drug addicts, whores, filth and Puerto Rican Cheese Dong and you could have your throat slashed at any moment. EAT IT!!!

Madonna-related clips from Jean-Michel Baquiat: The Radiant Child

Madonna related clips from The Radiant Child.

Another Artichoke

One I haven't seen from the artichoke series. Fantastique!

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

I saw the new Tamra Davis documentary, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child at the Nuart theater in Los Angeles last night. It was fabulous from frame one.

It goes through the life of Basquiat via the lens and brain of friend, Tamra Davis. There are interviews with Erika Bell (one of the first to fly up on the screen), Maripol, Fab

5 Freddy, Glenn O'Brien, Kenny Scharf and a slew of others. Frequent Madonna references in the film, including photographs of Madonna and Basquiat together and many Maripol polaroids.

From Basquiat's relationship with his mother and father to Andy Warhol to his creative soul - it's a captivating documentary that takes the viewer through the long gone, funk hole glamorous, pre-gentrified New York City. The world many early fans romanticized and fell in love with. Archival footage of the seedy city and the artists it gave birth to. You really get a sense of the real world from which Madonna emerged from, a world that no longer exists. A must see for a real Madonna fan.

Great soundtrack by Beastie Boys Adam Horovitz, the filmmakers husband.

Click HERE for the official Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child film website. The film plays for one week at the Nuart theater in Los Angeles.

Jean-Michel Basquiat : The Radiant Child Trailer

Directed by Tamra Davis, the documentary features never-before seen footage of the prolific artist painting, talking about his art, and existing in the two years prior to his death in 1988.

The OST features music from Mike D and Ad Rock.

Speaking of Warhol...The Virgin Tour.

I posted an Andy Warhol diary entry yesterday from 1986. Here is the contact sheet from August 15, 1985 he took of her, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, the dancers and Kenny Scharf backstage of The Virgin Tour.

Basquiat and Madonna

Jean-Michel Basquiat & Madonna

nuke_trouble_No.6 ~ Maripol

jean-michel basquiat & madonna @ the mudd club 1982

madonna - artichokes