Jimmy Wright - MFA 1971, Part 2 - a podcast by John Pollitz

Jimmy Wright talks about life after SIU. In this episode we hear about Jimmy's life in New York City, Jean-Michel Basquiat, his series of drawings of gay life before AIDS, Gay art, and how he became part of the movie, Saturday Night at the Baths. Then AIDS changed the world. We hear about how he came to paint his spectacular still lifes.

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