Jean-Michel Basquiat

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A New Body

Creative Solutions turns at-risk into artistic

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Creative Solutions turns at-risk into artistic

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Creative Solutions turns at-risk into artistic

Looking Pretty

After 20 years, Downtown 81 barely qualifies for an audience

The Basquiat Syndrome

Trenton Doyle Hancock benefits from the art world's peculiarly cynical twist on affirmative action

Still Wannabe

The DMA falls for its own hype, and that of another self-promoter named Joseph Beuys

Marked Cuban

Before Night Falls recounts the grim, brave life of persecuted gay writer Reinaldo Arenas

Urban Legend

Photographer Jay Maisel may do Dallas, but he's already married to NYC

Still life

The Deep Ellum Center for the Arts is celebrating its first year. If it can't figure out what it wants to be, it may also be its last.

The Artful Bomber

Graffiti artist Greg Contestabile grows up and grows respectable, but finds that the glam of the gallery can't top the lure of the street

Guts 'R' us

Trenton Hancock is crossing the color line with his visceral works of art

The singer, not the song

Basquiat paints a stark portrait of the artist as a young misfit

A portrait of the artist as a dead woman

Letters Home invites us into the life of Sylvia Plath, but never illuminates the artist