SKOWEJ.- ARKEN is presenting a large special exhibition of two American art legends, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). Featuring more than 65 works, the exhibition includes paintings by Warhol and Basquiat along with a wide selection of the more than 100 collaborative works that the two artists created over a short, intense period from 1983 to 1985. Warhol and Basquiat were fixtures of the New York art scene in the mid-eighties, a time when artists, musicians and actors experimented with art, identity, sexuality and drugs. In this environment, appearances and personas were crucial to an artist’s career and key ingredients in the finished work of art. Warhol created the “scene” and Basquiat splashed onto it as a young graffiti artist shooting to stardom. Celebrated in life, they were mythologized in death. Their intense lives, great art and early deaths, are the stuff of legend. Basquia