Jean-Michel Basquiat: Hollywood Africans Skateboard Decks Maura Harty and edited by architectural historian

and edited by architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen

who was then just shy of eighteen years old

and elision

Published by Karma

a precursor to Urban Light

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Hollywood Africans Skateboard Decks Maura Harty and edited by architectural historianThe Skateroom has collaborated with the Estate of Jean Michel Basquiat to create this set of three skateboard decks featuring Basquiats painting Hollywood Africans (1983). Hollywood Africans is from a series of Basquiats paintings that features images and texts relating to stereotypes of African Americans in the entertainment industry. It was painted while Basquiat was on an extended visit to Los Angeles in 1983. Several of the works notations are