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This post was written by Jessica Weiss and published on the University of Maryland website. It is reposted here with permission.Photo by Sarah Deragon.Through her teaching, research and beyond, Jordana Moore Saggese is working to undo the ‘colonialist and white supremacist logic’ that has pe

This guest post is part of our #CAA2021 conference series. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) burst onto the art scene in the summer of 1980 as one of approximately one hundred artists exhibiting at the 1980 Times Square Show in New York City. By 1982, at the age of twenty-one, Basquiat had so