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Strange Fruit

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Strange Fruit

I wanted to share this article here:

Strange Fruits: Billie, Bessie, Bayard, Baldwin and Basquiat - Art, Anger and the Search for a Black Gay Aesthetic

In a 1983 interview, Basquiat was asked about anger in his work. 'It's about 80% anger,' he replied. The interviewer pressed him: 'But there's also humor.' Basquiat answered, 'People laugh when you fall on your ass. What's humor?' Noticing this kind of shadow rage creeping up in more of Basquiat's art as the exhibit progressed, and enjoying the sarcasm, irony and bitter wit in his work, I also thought to myself, 'I feel I am looking at the art of a black gay man.'

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