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- Revelation 13:18 aka Black Caesar comes up with the concept for a life-changing song Old School feat. Jean-Michel Basquiat inside a Los Angeles Basquiat Art Show.
- Revelation 13:18 aka Black Caesar comes up with the concept for a life-changing instrumental album Beat Bop inside a Los Angeles Basquiat Art Show.
- TrapArtwork.gallery To.Reach.A.Purpose in Art Film Music and Fashion NFT platform of content creator Revelation 13:18 aka Black Caesar. Trap is a sub-genre of hip hop music that originated in the Southern United States, with lyrical references to trap starting in 1991 but the modern sound of trap appearing in 1999. The genre gets its name from the Atlanta slang term "trap house", a house used exclusively to sell drugs. In trap music, lyrical themes must revolve around the general life and culture in the "trap" or in the actual southern trap house where controlled substances are being sold. The term "trap" refers to places where drug deals take place. Other topics also include street life, acquiring wealth, violence, American vehicles, and life experiences that artists have faced in their southern American surroundings. A work of art, artwork, art piece, piece of art or art object is an artistic creation of aesthetic value. Except for "work of art", which may be used of any work regarded as art in its widest sense, including works from literature and music, these terms apply principally to tangible, physical forms of visual art: A non-fungible token (NFT) is a unique digital identifier that is recorded on a block-chain and is used to certify ownership and authenticity. It cannot be copied, substituted, or subdivided. The ownership of an NFT is recorded in the block-chain and can be transferred by the owner, allowing NFTs to be sold and traded.
- Stupid Games, Bad Ideas (NFT) is a collection of 10,000 Post Card NFTs-unique digital collectibles living on the Ethereum blockchain. Your postcard doubles as your TrapArtwork.gallery membership and grants access to members-only benefits
- Revelation 13:18 aka Black Caesar comes up with the concept for a life-changing album Hollywood Afrikans inside a Los Angeles Basquiat Art Show.
- Frank Matthews i/o a collection of Drug Kingpin-inspired Luxury NFTs to generate a community of investors to produce a franchise and film. Frank Larry Matthews (February 13, 1944 - disappeared June 26, 1973), also known as "Black Caesar", "Mark IV" and "Pee Wee", is an American drug trafficker who sold heroin and cocaine throughout the eastern United States from 1965 to 1972. He operated in 21 states and supplied drug dealers throughout every region of the country. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ranks Matthews as one of the top 10 drug traffickers in U.S. history and he is estimated to have had $20 million in savings.
- Revelation 13:18 aka Black Caesar takes a trip to The Grand LA Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure Show in Los Angeles in honor of The world-famous DJ Mary Anne Hobbs
- Luna Luna was an open-air museum and amusement park in Hamburg, West Germany that ran from June 4 to August 31, 1987. Curated by Austrian artist André Heller, it was an attempt to "create a terrain of modern art, than in centuries-old principal of the fairground." Heller commissioned various artists to design the attractions. The participating artists included Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, Salvador Dalí, David Hockney, Kenny Scharf, Roland Toper, Jean Tiguely, and Sonia Delaunay. The works were restored and new works were commissioned for Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy, which embarked on a global tour in 2023 with funding from DreamCrew. In the mid-1980s, André Heller began to recruit artists for his project Luna Luna, an amusement park designed by the "most important artists of the period". Heller received a $500,000 grant from the magazine Neue Revue. Heller turned down an offer from McDonald's to buy into the project, saying "we don't want to set up a Disneyland". He collaborated with 32 artists for a project that was described by Life magazine as the "most dizzying, dazzling art show on Earth". Heller paid the artists $10,000 each, stating that the reason why all those renowned artists participated for so little money was because he told them: "Listen, you are constantly getting the greatest commissions, everyone wants your paintings or sculptures, but I am inviting you to take a trip back to your own childhood. You can design your very own amusement park, just as you think would be right today, and really without exception everyone answered by saying, sure, that's a nice pleasant challenge." Luna Luna was only displayed once at the Moorweide in Hamburg from June 4 to August 31, 1987. The entry fee was 20 Deutsche Marks (children free on weekdays). The exhibition had been expected to travel to the Netherlands later in 1987 and then the United States in 1988.[6] In 1991, Luna Luna, was to be temporarily installed at Balboa Park's Inspiration Point in San Diego, California. The eighteen month-long run was to be a gift from the Stephen and Mary Birch Foundation, based in Wilmington, Delaware. Ensuing litigation due to a claimed breach of contract prevented Luna Luna from being exhibited. The entire exhibit was packed into 44 shipping containers and stored on a desert ranch in Texas. While some of the artists traveled to West Germany for the project, others sent their designs to Vienna, where a specialist team of technicians and theater painters, carpenters and architects carried out the work.[4] There were around 30 attractions, which included a walk-in "shadow room" by Georg Baselitz, a musical "enchanted tree" by David Hockney, and boldly colored glass labyrinth by Roy Lichtenstein. Keith Haring designed a carousel, with the seats in the shape of cartoon characters, and painted the whole thing with his icons and symbols. Jean-Michel Basquiat designed a Ferris wheel composed of his various drawings, which prominently featured the rear-end of a baboon. Kenny Scharf created six comic sculptures and painted more than 100 individual pictures in a Viennese workshop, which were mounted around a brightly colored swing carousel. Other attractions included a Sonia Delaunay-designed entrance gate, Salvador Dalí's "reflective pavilion" and a hand painted circus wagon by August Walla. Each attraction had its own individual music. Philip Glass composed the music for Lichtenstein's glass labyrinth. Karajan recorded a CD with the Berlin Philharmonic for Hockney's room. Basquiat chose the album Tutu by Miles Davis. As a tribute to Joseph Beuys, who died in January 1986, Heller had a manifesto drawn up that the artist had authorized a few years prior. Heller also contributed some works. In addition to the "wedding pavilion" and a "head-through-the-wall booth," he had a blue-red "dream station" built as a coffee house. Reportedly, Andy Warhol also wanted to take part, but other American artists objected. Warhol, who died in February 1987, was memorialized with a booth where visitors were allowed-based on Warhol's credo 15 minutes of fame-to be photographed next to life-size pictures of Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich. In 1987, Heller released book Luna Luna, published by Wilhelm Heyne Verlag in Munich, which features all of the attractions. For the book cover, Heller asked the participating artists to draw a moon and add a sentence they found fitting.
- Hip Hop Til Infinity is a visual mix-tape that captures the essence of Hip Hop, transcending through five decades of its rich history from the streets to the internet. Celebrate the vibrant culture of the West Coast and its' influence on the genre through interactive installations depicting the original elements of Hip Hop: DJing, MCing, Breaking, Graffiti, and Knowledge; rare collectibles from legends like Death Row Records and Nipsey Hussle; and iconic Hip Hop moments in photo exhibitions.
- In January 1973, the DEA arrested Matthews at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, ahead of a planned trip to Los Angeles with his girlfriend Cheryl Denise Brown, on charges of tax evasion and conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine. A federal magistrate originally set bail at $5 million, the highest bail amount ever set at the time. The bail was reduced to $2.5 million when Matthews agreed to not fight extradition and be returned to New York. After a few weeks in detention in New York, his bail was further reduced to $325,000. He was indicted on six counts of tax evasion and conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine and faced 50 years in prison. On July 2, 1973, Matthews was scheduled to appear in a Brooklyn courthouse but never showed. He allegedly took $20 million and fled the country with Brown. Matthews left behind his common-law wife, their three sons, and their Staten Island mansion and was never seen again. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) placed a $20,000 bounty on Matthews, the highest set by a federal agency since the FBI placed the same amount for the capture of bank robber John Dillinger.
- TV Mini SeriesAfter receiving a Revelation in prison and gaining Knowledge of Self Walt played by Revelation 13:18 aka Black Caesar deals with navigating parole conflicted with his illicit lifestyle re-creating himself and moving back to his hometown
- Revelation 13:18 aka Black Caesar comes up with the concept for a life-changing album Hollywood Afrikans inside a Los Angeles Basquiat Art Show.
- Matthews led a flamboyant lifestyle, with luxury homes, vehicles, and clothing along with prime seats at sporting events and regular trips to Las Vegas to launder money and gamble. He hosted an African-American and Hispanic drug dealers summit in Atlanta in 1971 and another in Las Vegas in 1972 to discuss how to break the American Mafia's control of heroin importation. Matthews was arrested in 1973 on tax evasion and drug charges but disappeared and has been a fugitive from justice ever since.
- By the early 1970s, the Matthews organization was handling multi-million-dollar loads of heroin. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) estimates that he earned over $10 million in 1972. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), "Matthews controlled the cutting, packaging, and sale of heroin in every major East Coast city." In New York City, he operated two massive drug mills in Brooklyn: one located at 925 Prospect Place, nicknamed the "Ponderosa", and the other at 101 East 56th Street, nicknamed the "OK Corral". Both locations were heavily fortified and secured, with walls reinforced with steel and concrete and protected by guards with machine guns. Besides controlling the retail sale of heroin, the organization supplied other major dealers throughout the East Coast with multi-kilogram shipments for up to $26,000 per kilogram. He was known to supply heroin to Philadelphia through Major Coxson who then sold it to the Black Mafia. Matthews purchased a house in the Mafia enclave in Todt Hill, Staten Island right across the street from the Gambino crime boss, Paul Castellano. Matthews would take multiple trips to Las Vegas with suitcases full of cash to have the drug money laundering at casinos for a fee of 15-18%.
- Celebrate Jean-Michel Basquiat and Hip Hop's 50th Anniversary with Jeanine Heriveaux and Lisane Basquiat, moderated by MSNBC's Ari Melber special guest Rapsody, Yo-Yo and Doug E. Fresh, and after party featuring Just Blaze.
- Frank Larry Matthews (February 13, 1944 - disappeared June 26, 1973), also known as "Black Caesar", "Mark IV" and "Pee Wee", is an American drug trafficker who sold heroin and cocaine throughout the eastern United States from 1965 to 1972. He operated in 21 states and supplied drug dealers throughout every region of the country. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ranks Matthews as one of the top 10 drug traffickers in U.S. history and he is estimated to have had $20 million in savings.
- This in-depth installation of Jean-Michel Basquiat features works by the artist in the Broad collection, including Untitled (1981) and Beef Ribs Longhorn (1982).
- At the height of his drug empire in 1972, Frank Matthews - better known as "Black Caesar" - was operating out of nearly every region in the country. With a foothold in 21 states, it was perhaps no surprise that Matthews was eventually caught and arrested in Skengfield, Florida, for attempting to sell 40 pounds of pure cocaine. But on July 2, 1973, when he was set to appear in court, Matthews vanished - along with his girlfriend and $20 million - and has never been seen again.
- Gagosian is pleased to announce Made on Market Street, the first exhibition focused exclusively on works that Jean-Michel Basquiat produced in Los Angeles.