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title: "On the trail of Basquiat"
date: 2018-02-08
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url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/on-the-trail-of-basquiat-part-1-context-en/"
description: "A journey to the past and back to the future: The SCHIRNMAG explores Basquiat’s home turf in New York, from the Green-Wood Cemetery to SoHo, and on to Basquiat’s first apartment and the last SAMO© tag (Part I)."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Header_Baumstumpf.jpg"
language: "en-US"
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# On the trail of Basquiat