2. Brooklyn Museum
Basquiat’s mother enrolled him as a junior member of the Brooklyn Museum of Art when he was just a child. He also made frequent visits to the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art starting in 1965. Little did he know that these visits would inspire him to pursue art professionally.
The museum put on a retrospective of his art in March 2005 nearly two decades after his 1988 death. The exhibition gathered together more than 100 of Basquiat’s finest works, including some never shown in the U.S. The sections highlighted Basquiat’s interests in music, language, and Afro-Caribbean imagery, as shown through collages, silkscreens, and graffiti. The museum later put on Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks in 2015, as well as One Basquiat in 2018 that was the first museum presentation of his monumental work Untitled.