The band is featured in the film Downtown 81 starring the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

In 1995, Linden married Cristina Giusti, who is the owner of Basquiat, a Vancouver boutique.

So laden is the film with the innumerable coincidences of Basquiat and Schnabel's enthusiasms ( among others, for pajamas and surfing ) that the movie should be more appropriately called My Basquiat … To a remarkable degree, the movie succeeds, by dint of its authorial slant, in popularizing the myth of Basquiat as a young, gorgeous, doomed, yet ultimately transcendent black male artist, even as it extends and reinflates the myth of Schnabel as a protean, Picassoid white male painter … Yet for all one's apprehension about the very idea of Schnabel making such a film, Basquiat turns out to be a surprisingly good movie … It is also an art work.

You come away from Basquiat thinking Andy was comical and amusing, not a pretentious, phony piece of shit, which is how others show him.

The breakfast room is lined with 200 Meissen porcelain plates, and the small salon has two Basquiat paintings and a painting by Damien Hirst.

He likes painting and admires abstract expressionist artists such as Basquiat, Motherwell and Pollock ( the Champion spark-plug logo tattoo on his right arm is a homage to Stuart Davis ).

Starring renowned artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and featuring such early Village artists as James Chance, Amos Poe, Walter Steding, and Tav Falco, the film is a bizarre elliptical urban fairytale.

A rare movie review in Artforum said " Basquiat is a joy to watch.

Enriching and countering this mainstream commercial movement is the constant flux of underground movements, such as hip-hop art and graffiti, which engendered such artists as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and continue to add visual texture and life to the atmosphere of the city.

He is heavily influenced by the poets Langston Hughes, John Berryman, and Emily Dickinson and by the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

" Other Notable work is the music for Jean Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child which he did along with Adam Horovitz and Michael Diamond of The Beastie Boys, & the score for Marilyn Minter's installation Green Pink Caviar on exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and featured in the Destricted film series along with Matthew Barney, Richard Prince, Gaspar Noe, Larry Clark, and Cecily Brown.

In 1996, Love began obtaining small acting parts again in Basquiat and Feeling Minnesota ( 1996 ), before landing the co-starring role of Larry Flynt's wife, Althea, in Miloš Forman's 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, against Columbia Pictures ' reluctance due to her low profile and " troubled " past.

He took a small but pivotal role as Andy Warhol in Basquiat, artist / director Julian Schnabel's 1996 biopic of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and co-starred in Giovanni Veronesi's Spaghetti Western Il Mio West ( 1998, released as Gunslinger's Revenge in the US in 2005 ) as the most feared gunfighter in the region.

" Directorial Debut Fails as Film, History "; review of Basquiat, by Julian Schnabel, San Francisco Examiner, August 16, 1996.

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The following year, personal friend, Julian Schnabel cast Michael as gay artist and writer, Rene Ricard, in Basquiat, ( 1996 ) his film about Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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* August 12 – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American musician / graffiti painter ( b. 1960 )

Holman, a former member of theatrical rock group The Tubes, had first met Basquiat in 1979 and together that year they founded an experimental, industrial / electronica group called Gray.

That film showcased artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in his Lower Manhattan environment and the culture that surrounded it.

Basquiat was the first commercial feature film about a painter made by a painter.

Schnabel and his studio assistant Greg Bogin created paintings " in the style of " Basquiat for the film.

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The film opens with Jean ( Basquiat ) in the hospital with an undisclosed ailment.

The film production bought Basquiat canvas and paints to make paintings for the film.

The soundtrack features music by: Jean Michel Basquiat with Andy Hernandez ; Basquiat's own band, Gray ; John Lurie ( who cameos in the film ) and the Lounge Lizards, DNA, Tuxedomoon, the Plastics, Marvin Pontiac, Kenny Burrell, the Specials, Chris Stein, Melle Mel with Blondie, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, James White and the Blacks, Vincent Gallo, Lydia Lunch, Steve French and Suicide.

Basquiat was a precocious child who learned how to read and write by age four and was a gifted artist.

He returned to London in the early 1980s and opened a second gallery in 1983, but by this time he was suffering from chronic drug and alcohol problems and the gallery never replicated the success of its predecessor, although Fraser was again influential in promoting the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.

Under Polsky's direction, the club became renowned as one of centers of new wave music in New York and was frequented by many musicians and artists who became famous during the decade, such as Madonna, New Order, Duran Duran, Billy Idol, Sade, Wham !, The Smiths, Squeeze, Cyndi Lauper, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Run-DMC, Depeche Mode, Butthole Surfers, The B-52's, Samhain, Bauhaus, RuPaul, Berlin, Romeo Void, Sonic Youth, Swans, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Cult, Violent Femmes, Soft Cell, The Jesus and Mary Chain, the Beastie Boys, and LL Cool J.

The cover featured a re-creation of an Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat gallery poster, something that was later used by Complex Magazine for A $ AP Rocky and Jeremy Scott.

Black Orpheus was cited by Jean-Michel Basquiat as one of his early musical influences.

The paintings that appear in the movie belonging to Basquiat ’ s character are by Basquiat himself, and among his first canvases.

And came to the conclusion that “ Jean Michel Basquiat let himself be inspired by Thomas ' way of stretching his canvases with ropes and in wood frames that crossed each other in the corners that Thomas used for his exhibit in New York in 1982 at the Lucky Strike Gallery in collaboration with Rainer Laakso.

This show featured inexpensive works by some 150 artists, including then unknowns Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.

Rubell later opened the Palladium, a large dance club famous for displaying art by Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, and considered central to the New York club scene in the 1980s.

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He collaborated with cutting-edge artists Francesco Clemente, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Kenny Scharf, and Keith Haring to create a dramatic, curated environment.

Fab 5 Freddy's friendship with Debbie Harry influenced Blondie's single " Rapture " ( Chrysalis, 1981 ), the video of which featured Jean-Michel Basquiat, and offered many their first glimpse of a depiction of elements of graffiti in hip hop culture.

In April 1981, Freddy helped curate ( with Futura 2000 and Keith Haring ) the graffiti-related art show " Beyond Words " at the Mudd Club, which contained their own work along with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rammellzee, Afrika Bambaataa, and others.

In the late 1970s while performing at Club 57, The Mudd Club, The Pyramid Club, and other venues, Nomi assembled a group of up-and-coming models, singers, artists, and musicians to perform live with him, which at times included Joey Arias, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, John Sex and Kenny Scharf.

These films include Personal Velocity, Basquiat, Clockwatchers, The Daytrippers, Party Girl, and The House of Yes, for which she received positive reviews for her portrayal of a delusional woman in love with her own brother.