APRIL 17: RADIANT CHILD @ CASES BY THE SEA / 7:30 PM

Jean-Michel BasquiatJean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

A feature length documentary by Tamra Davis

You may not know painter Jean-Michel Basquiat by name but chances are you have seen his art  — modern, primitive, iconic.  Born to a Haitian father and an African-Puerto Rican mother, Basquiat lived his formative teen years on Puerto Rico, emerging on Brooklyn streets in the 1970s as a locally-acclaimed graffiti artist.  By age 25 the charismatic Basquiat had evolved into a globally-acclaimed Neo-expressionist and Primitivist painter, rarified, commercial art-world darling, commanding $1M a painting.  This definitive documentary chronicles the meteoric rise of the artist with rock star status – an enormous talent whose fortunes mirror the roller-coaster quality of the 1980s downtown NY art scene.