Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat's meteoric rise to artistic fame has become the stuff of legend. How he went from living on the streets of Manhattan going from girlfriend-to-girlfriend, writing cryptic sayings on the walls and signing them "Samo," being discovered by the downtown hipster cognoscenti, achieving fame and fortune in his lifetime and dying from an overdose of heroin all within a span of ten years makes quite a story. via papermag

The Radiant Child opens in New York on July 21st at Film Forum.