How Printmaking Changed the Way Jean-Michel Basquiat Painted

Jean-Michel Basquiat once offered a wonderfully concise explanation of his practice: “I collage my own hand.”That line could serve as the motto for “Basquiat, the Blue Ribbon Paintings, and the Art of Reproduction,” a new exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum centered on 11 paintings Basquiat made 1984, shown alongside other works by the artist.The “Blue Ribbon” paintings, reunited here for the first time in more than three decades, are full of rep