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When Michael died, Basquiat went to Haringβs Houston Street studio. The two had known each other since meeting years earlier at the School of Visual Arts. Haring, a student there, helped Basquiat get past a troublesome security guard. Later that day, Haring saw SAMO tags all over the SVA walls and realized heβd hung out with the elusive artist. At the time, the two ran in different circles. Haring, skinny and ebullient, was drawn to graffiti, a form from which Basquiat, a more pensive personality, was starting to distance himself. All the same, there were vital commonalities. Patrick Fox, who knew both men, likened Basquiat
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Elon Green (The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York)