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Slate Money | Money Talks: How Basquiat's Art Became a Good Investment

Slate Money | Money Talks: How Basquiat's Art Became a Good Investment

Update: 2025-09-30
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In this Money Talks: Felix Salmon is joined by Doug Woodham, author of the upcoming biography Jean-­Michel Basquiat: The Making of an Icon, to discuss Basquiat’s path to becoming a darling of the art market. They discuss the idiosyncrasies of the art market and  why Basquiat – the “Jimi Hendrix” of the art world – was initially undervalued but later became part of the modern day art canon. 


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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli and Cheyna Roth.



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Slate Money | Money Talks: How Basquiat's Art Became a Good Investment

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