Venue - a place where something happens.
Medium - a means by which something is communicated, determined by it's materials and method of production.
All In The Family, 1971-1979.
Mudd Club - named after Samuel Alexander Mudd. Club located in Manhatten, open 1978 - 1983.
"Whether playing a gig at CBGB or sipping champagne at exclusive galleries, Basquiat was ensconced in a primarily white world. Yet, his work demonstrates a strong black identity. His paintings pay homage to Charlie Parker, Jimmy Hendrix and Malcolm X. The triple spiked crown and halo are quintessential Basquiat symbols repeated in his narratives, in which he anoints his heroes with an angelic, mythic or martyr status. Social injustice, materialism and racism are addressed head on, with great irony and little subtlety in paintings such as Jim Crow, Irony of the Negro Policeman and Per Capita. In honoring Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole and others, Basquiat drew a connection between an artistic iconography which he admired, and of which he himself eventually became a part." A Review of Basquiat: A Slam Dance on Canvas, CAmille Collins. Source
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"When MTV started, there were so few music videos that the network scrambled for content. Many early videos came pouring out of Britain — from acts such as Duran Duran, A Flock of Seagulls, ABC, Joe Jackson and the Police — in a parade the early MTV executive Bob Pittman refers to here as “the second British Invasion.” Source link here.
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