Jean-Michel Basquiat and American Street Art Pioneer is celebrated In Paris

In the middle of a budding avant-garde pocket of the Left Bank Paris, a newly developed public square that has been shaping the past year. Swept in by remarkable and attractive modern architecture and vertical gardens, the Place Jean-Michel Basquiat has been decked with digital renditions of the bold and figurative cartoonish works of the art stars of the 80s.

As his works are sold for astronomical prices all over the world, Paris ha....