Jean-Michel Basquiat's Notes from NYC's Underground Art Scene

"IT’S TIME TO GREYHOUND AND COME BACK A DRIFTER"

Too often, we think of notebooks as a way-station: a necessary stop en-route to the perfected, polished work of art. But what if the notebook is the work of art? What if the process of taking notes is the point?

There is no better artist for thinking through the notebook as an art object than Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988).

Basquiat in 1985. From ‘New…