Hosts Lianne and Zak dive into the life of iconic American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. They explore his beginnings in the NY graffiti scene before his meteoric rise to fame, relationships with the likes of Madonna and Andy Warhol, and untimely death. Today in Art unpacks Mark Zuckerberg commissioning a 7-foot sculpture of his wife.

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• "Danse Macabre" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/