PARIS (AP).- At the end of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s short life, the explosively talented but troubled New York artist had a dream — to stage a major exhibit of his eyepopping, doodle-covered work in Paris. Nearly 50 years after his birth, and 22 years after his death at age 27 of a drug overdose, Basquiat’s wish has finally come true. “Basquiat,” which opened Friday at the Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris, brings together more than 150 pieces that trace his rise from graffiti artist to star of the New York art scene. The son of a Haitian father and Puerto Rican mother, Basquiat was the first to break the glass ceiling that had kept black artists out of the art elite. Curators said his dazzling rise helped pave the way for other prominent African-Americans, including President Barack Obama, who was born one year after Basquiat. “Jean-Michel Basquiat is a very important link in the chain that led to black Ameri