In 2019, New York-based visual artist Cj Hendry created a realistic illustration based on an iconic photograph portraying Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat brandishing boxing gloves. The work was inspired by one of a selection of images taken by legendary photographer Michael Halsband back in July 10, 1985 during a shoot with the pop art luminaries.
Hendry received a cease and desist letter from Halsband to “destroy the artwork,” with the photographer citing “copyright infringement,” as per the artist. Hendry complied in a very unpredictable fashion. Instead of just getting rid of her piece, the artist recorded herself spray-painting over the drawing and minted it as a one of one NFT on SuperRare which is currently up for auction.
“It’s extraordinary that a piece can take hundreds of hours to make and seconds to eliminate it from existence,” she said in a description.
Aptly titled COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT, the recording currently has a high bid of 2.75 ETH (approximately $6,685 USD). Check out a still from the clip above and then head to SuperRare’s website to bid on the work with the auction ending this April 16.
The “Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation” exhibition has been extended until July 25 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), due to popular demand.
Writing the Future showcases works of artists who share a conceptual approach in their techniques rooted in early hip-hop. Their works of subversive abstractions made way for a new style of art known as the “post-graffiti” movement in American art as well as accelerating hip-hop and street art as a global movement. The exhibit has gathered 120 works by Jean-Michel Basquiat and 11 of his peers — A-One, ERO, Fab 5 Freddy, Futura, Keith Haring, Kool Koor, LA2, Lady Pink, Lee Quiñones, Rammellzee, and Toxic.
Not only did the concept of hip-hop and graffiti electrify these artworks in the ’80s, but the issues of longstanding class and racial divisions in New York City also fueled these artists to use their mediums to create pieces that voiced matters that have impacted the rest of the world.
The Museum is also hosting the Sound Bites: Nancy Lee Clark Concert Series which dabbles into how different generations expand on and redefine early hip-hop. The concerts — filmed inside the exhibition and available for rent on the Museum’s recently launched on-demand video platform, MFA Selects — continue with Edo Gand Brady Watt, premiering on April 29, and Slick Vick with Cake Swagg and Bernadine, premiering on June 3.
Make sure to grab your timed-entry exhibition tickets in advance, which include general Museum admission, and are required for all visitors — members and nonmembers alike — due to limited capacity. May tickets for the exhibition, originally scheduled to close on May 16, will go on sale on April 20 for members and April 21 for nonmembers.
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