The three-day public viewing session was a landmark downtown event that drew crowds in the thousands

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Basquiat 40th Anniversary Edition licensed The three-day public viewing sessionThe legend of Jean Michel Basquiat is as strong as ever. Synonymous with 1980s New York, the artist first appeared in the late 1970s under the tag SAMO, spraying caustic comments and fragmented poems on the walls of the city. He appeared as part of a thriving underground scene of visual arts and graffiti, hip hop, post punk, and DIY filmmaking, which met in a booming art world. As a painter with a strong personal voice, Basquiat soon broke into the