Beginnings: The Howl Arts Podcast Howl Arts

Talking Basquiat the Teenage YearsThe great iconic artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is remembered by his friends who knew him when, as a teenager, he first burst upon the Downtown New York scene as Samo and began to make the artworks that sell for millions of dollars today. Sara Driver’s movie Boom for Real is the jumping off point for a conversation about Basquiat and New York in the 80s with “Beginnings” host and Paper magazine founder David Hershkovits, Driver, Alexis Adler, Felice Rosser and L...

Jean-Michel Basquiat didn’t know how to play an instrument, but that didn’t stop him from asking Michael Holman to join him in starting up a band. Called Gray, they created an improvised collage of sounds more in tune (or out of tune) with the avant-garde than with rap music which had arrived as the new pop sound. Holman talks with “Beginnings" host and Paper magazine founder David Hershkovits about his days with Basquiat and GOD — the Good Old Days — when New York City was burning down physi...

Carlo McCormick is more than a cultural critic and curator. He’s a seminal figure in the evolution of the Downtown art scene where he’s lived for more than 40 years. Championing work from marginal communities, he’s written hundreds of catalogue essays about contemporary artists and contributed to Paper, the East Village Eye, Juxtapoz and many other publications and in the process become perhaps the world’s foremost authority on street art and graffiti. Here he talks with “Beginnings" host and...