{"id":23,"date":"2003-06-03T10:15:33","date_gmt":"2003-06-03T01:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/06\/03\/jean-michel-basquiats-lives-next-door\/"},"modified":"2017-03-02T17:13:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T08:13:59","slug":"jean-michel-basquiats-lives-next-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/06\/03\/jean-michel-basquiats-lives-next-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Michel Basquiat&#8217;s Lives Next Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- picture_glue_start --><\/p>\n<div class=\"photo_group\"><a class=\"pic_link\" href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/pix\/post23\/CIMG0011.JPG\" target=\"zoom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/pix\/post23\/thumbnails\/CIMG0011.JPG\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><a class=\"pic_link\" href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/pix\/post23\/CIMG0012.JPG\" target=\"zoom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/pix\/post23\/thumbnails\/CIMG0012.JPG\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a class=\"pic_link\" href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/pix\/post23\/CIMG0014.JPG\" target=\"zoom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/pix\/post23\/thumbnails\/CIMG0014.JPG\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- picture_glue_stop --><\/p>\n<p>Ok, at long last, an entry on Paris&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Just when it started looking like Paris was still all about annoyingly grumpy parisians, endless strikes and rude, eternally malcontent, cab drivers (a mere thirty minutes after leaving the airport, I had my first lecture on how shuttle buses from the airport where stealing work from cabs and how he usually never picked fares at the shuttle station)&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI noticed this guy sleeping (passed out?) on the sidewalk downstairs from Sarah&#8217;s flat, next to a bunch of what looked like miscellaneous pieces of trash&#8230; so far, nothing out of the ordinary, whether in Paris or SF&#8230;<br \/>\nBut later during the day, I caught him, perfectly awake this time, studiously painting on one of the giant canvas he had been using as a shelter&#8230;<br \/>\nand his stuff was pretty interesting too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There were even occasionally people, who apparently knew him, stopping to chat on the sidewalk and check out his recent paintings&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When I asked Sarah this morning, she told me that, yes, he had been consistently living there for a few months. People would quite often come by and bring him cheap whisky on which he&#8217;d drink himself stupid in between two painting sessions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what part of my fascination here comes from the guy and his paintings, and what comes from the common but eery resonance with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnseed.com\/basquiat.html\">other famous hobos<\/a> or with the fact that, despite all the downsides of this city, you can&#8217;t help but feel like you are surrounded by all kind of art, in the most unexpected places and times&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Today, it&#8217;s raining and he&#8217;s nowhere to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, at long last, an entry on Paris&#8230; Just when it started looking like Paris was still all about annoyingly grumpy parisians, endless strikes and rude, eternally malcontent, cab drivers (a mere thirty minutes after leaving the airport, I had my first lecture on how shuttle buses from the airport where stealing work from cabs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8443,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/8443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}