MsJAG's video: Grand Master Flash Live at the Art Gallery of Ontario: Basquiat Exhibit

Grand Master Flash Live at the AGO in Toronto Feb 5th, 2015 In celebration of the Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the gallery also known as the AGO, threw a party on February 5 2015, two days before the opening day. Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged from the "Punk" scene in New York as a gritty, street-smart graffiti artist who successfully crossed over from his "downtown" origins to the international art gallery circuit. In a few fast-paced years, Basquiat swiftly rose to become one of the most celebrated, and possibly most commercially exploited American "naif" painters of the widely celebrated Neo-Expressionism art movement. He died in 1988 at the age of 27 of a heroin overdose. The AGO event was headlined by the legendary Grandmaster Flash, one of the founding fathers of hip hop and the first DJ and hip-hop artist (alongside the Furious Five) to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. See more info on the event here: http://www.ago.net/ago-first-thursdays-february-5-2015 https://nowtoronto.com/music/features/grandmaster-flash/ http://www.blogto.com/music/2015/02/grandmaster_flash_hails_basquiat_at_first_thursday/ Basquiat exhibit at the AGO: http://www.blogto.com/arts/2015/02/staggering_basquiat_show_a_triumph_for_the_ago/ http://www.ago.net/basquiat Video taken by: http://www.msjag416.com