On the Will give real estate advice for tacos 2022 shirt moreover I love this other hand, the breadth and depth of “King Pleasure” also reveals just how visceral and direct Basquat’s work could be. Police brutality was an issue that turned up clearly and often on his canvas (the curator Chaédria LaBouvier pointed to this, too, with “Basquiat’s ‘Defacement’: The Untold Story,” her 2019 show at the Guggenheim). And there is certainly a strong case for approaching Basquiat’s paintings less diagrammatically and more formally. The crude figures, bold colors, tense block lettering, areas of erasure…Here was a man who covered the New York Times Magazine in 1985, and yet, because he was Black, had enough trouble hailing a cab that he mostly traveled by bike. When his own lived experience was so layered and unusual—to say nothing of his ultimately fatal struggle with substance abuse, which doesn’t come up at all in “King Pleasure”—why shouldn’t his paintings be that way, too?