Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation Mousse Publishing With an oversize trim

With an oversize trim

pineapples

and patches of white canvas occupy their own spaces

and many more

“I suppose the strength of a comic

Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation Mousse Publishing With an oversize trimThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip Hop Generation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Charting connections between the artist and the hip hop culture of early 1980s New Yorkgraffiti and music in particularit explores the territory that Basquiat shared with such luminaries of the scene as Lee Quiones, Rammellzee, and Lady Pink. Alongside works by these and other artists, the book