But those stories were always too meager, often willfully omitting Basquiat’s insecurity, his violent and arrogant temperament and the complexities of race, sexuality and AIDS during the grab-all culture of the 1980s.
They wanted to create the legacy of Basquiat in the image of the “Radiant Child,” as critic Rene Ricard famously dubbed him. Basquiat combined crude images with text that commented on culture, race, history and often death.įollowing Basquiat’s death in 1988 at the age of 27 from a heroin overdose, many critics, filmmakers, biographers and even other artists tried to own the narrative. Known as SAMO, a pioneering graffiti writer in Lower East Side Manhattan in the early 1980s, his success unfolded as an unlikely rags-to-riches story while he moved from scripting idiosyncratic messages on city streets to bold and confrontational paintings in high-end galleries. Julie Taymor is the director and producer of the movie on the novel Gun Love and Steven Spielberg has bought the rights to Clement’s memoir Widow Basquiat.Jean-Michel Basquiat died while the influence of his work had yet to be established. Prayers for the Stolen has been made into a movie directed by Tatiano Huezo and has received several awards. Clement’s books have been translated into more than 35 languages. Time magazine, among other publications, named it one of the top 10 books of 2018. Her recent novel Gun Love was an Oprah Book Club Selection as well as being a National Book Award, Aspen Words Literary Prize finalist, and a New York Times Editor’s Choice Book. Prayers for the Stolen was both a PEN/Faulkner Prize and Femina Prize finalist and a New Statesman Book of the Year, picked by Kazuo Ishiguro. Clement also wrote the acclaimed memoir Widow Basquiat on New York City in the early 1980’s and the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat.Ĭlement recipient of many awards including the Canongate Prize, Sara Curry Humanitarian Award, the Gran Prix des Lectrices Lyceenes de ELLE in France, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship and her books have twice been a New York Times Editor’s Choice Book. Under her leadership the groundbreaking PEN International Women’s Manifesto and The Democracy of the Imagination Manifesto were created.Ĭlement is the author the novels A True Story Based on Lies, The Poison That Fascinates, Prayers for the Stolen and Gun Love as well as several poetry books. Jennifer Clement is an Emeritus President of PEN International and the only woman to hold the office (2015-2021) since the organization was founded in 1921. The Center for the Humanities Programming Participants and Collaborators Jennifer Clement
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