{"id":10213,"date":"2019-10-09T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10213"},"modified":"2019-11-03T18:53:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T01:53:59","slug":"grimy-punk-basquiat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/09\/grimy-punk-basquiat\/","title":{"rendered":"Grimy Punk Basquiat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"ttps:\/\/news.artnet.com\/partner-content\/basquiat-the-offs-record-reissue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from artnet (opens in a new tab)\">from artnet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Basquiat Designed an Album Cover for a Grimy Punk-Ska Band 35 Years Ago. Now, a Limited Edition of the Album Is Being Reissued<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2019\/10\/Basquiat-Off-Album7-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Basquiat's 1984 design for the cover of The Off's First Album.\"\/><figcaption>Basquiat&#8217;s 1984 design for the cover of The Off&#8217;s\u00a0<em>First Record<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Originals of the record regularly sell for thousands of dollars, though oddly almost no one knows the band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basquiat&#8217;s 1984 design for the cover of The Off&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>First Record<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jean-Michel Basquiat was a music fanatic and wannabe drummer who before he hit superstardom as a visual artist often needed cash\u2014fast. Sometimes the two worlds collided. Once was in 1981 when the young Basquiat agreed to design an album sleeve for his friends in the punk-ska band, The Offs, in exchange for $400, which his mother needed to pay her rent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basquiat\u2019s design for the album, called simply\u00a0<em>First Record<\/em>, included some of the earliest examples of motifs that would come to define his work\u2014a cartoon-like, black-and-white totemic figure standing atop a triangular mound with a crown of thorns hovering above his head. The punk band\u2019s name appears written in Basquiat\u2019s signature scrawl in three spots.\u00a0Today, original copies of the album sell for thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"ttps:\/\/news.artnet.com\/partner-content\/basquiat-the-offs-record-reissue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at artnet (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at artnet<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from artnet Basquiat Designed an Album Cover for a Grimy Punk-Ska Band 35 Years Ago. Now, a Limited Edition of the Album Is Being Reissued Originals of the record regularly sell for thousands of dollars, though oddly almost no one knows the band. Basquiat&#8217;s 1984 design for the cover of The Off&#8217;s&nbsp;First Record. Jean-Michel Basquiat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}