So what happened?įrom 14 March to 11 April, Christie’s Education will address this question in the short online course, Street Art: From Basquiat to Banksy - an exploration of how graffiti evolved into street art and migrated from the New York City Subway and the street corners of the world’s major cities into galleries, museums and auction houses. Yet half a century ago, graffiti was still widely regarded as an illegal act of vandalism emanating from a subversive subculture with links to gangland crime. The demand for both artists, in other words, shows no sign of waning: while Basquiat is one of the best-selling artists in the world, BanksyBanksy has been voted the most popular British artist of all time. (The highest figure for a Basquiat is still the $110.5 million paid in 2017 for another skull painting, Untitled, while the auction record for Banksy is £16.75 million, set last year for Game Changer, a tribute to health workers featuring a boy playing with a nurse doll in the guise of a superhero.) The work sold for £4.6 million, while in a separate sale at Christie’s in New York, Basquiat’s skull painting In This Case (1982) went for $93.1 million. One of the works was Banksy’s Subject to Availability - an oil painting originally featured in the guerrilla exhibition, Banksy versus Bristol Museum (2009), in which the anonymous artist and activist secretly inserted more than 100 of his works into the gallery ’ s displays. In May this year, more than 50 works by street artists including Basquiat, Banksy, Os G êmeos, Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf were brought together online and in Christie’s London galleries for the exhibition, Off the Wall: Basquiat to Banksy. Offered by Christie’s Education in New York, Street Art: From Basquiat to Banksy is a short online course exploring the migration of graffiti from the fringes of the art world to its epicentre ‘Part of what I do and want to do is bring art into everyday life’ - Kenny Scharf
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