What’s Happening: The late artist may be synonymous with New York’s vital underground art scene in the ‘80s, but as a new exhibition says, he also created 100 paintings in Los Angeles at the invitation of Larry Gagosian, whose then-fledgling gallery received a major boost from Basquiat’s rising star.

The Download: Larry Gagosian doesn’t typically curate shows, but “Made on Market Street,” a showcase of early works that Jean-Michel Basquiat created during a few brief stints at the dealer’s house in Venice Beach, needed his personal touch. His gallery began as a poster shop in nearby Westwood in the late ‘70s, but his dealer instincts were already serving him well. When he first laid eyes on one of Basquiat’s paintings, his “hair stood on end.” Six months later, he opened a solo show at his West Hollywood gallery and could hardly contain the crowds. It propelled one of art history’s most consequential stars—albeit a tragically short-lived one—and helped put one of the market’s most discerning dealers on the map. Within a year, Gagosian was handling works by Sol LeWitt and Ellsworth Kelly; today, a dozen galleries across New York, London, Paris, Rome, Geneva, and Hong Kong bear his name. He couldn’t have done it without the Basquiat show’s runaway success.

The show’s indisputable centerpiece is Tuxedo, an eight-foot-tall collage embodying how Basquiat saw the world. Presiding up top is his signature crown motif; many of the words below, referencing Malcolm X and Vasco da Gama, are deliberately obscured, a technique used to draw more attention to them. It was the first silkscreen piece he worked on with Fred Hoffman, who curated this show and Basquiat’s most recent major American retrospective, which landed at the Brooklyn Museum back in 2005. Also of note are three paintings made on conjoined wooden slats he salvaged from a courtyard near his L.A. studio. They depict Black figures that evoke “qualities of royalty and divinity, African Kings,” Hoffman says. “They were a turning point in iconography for Basquiat.”

With more than 100 works created during this fruitful time, the show makes strides to celebrate California’s influence on an artist synonymous with Manhattan’s artistic heyday. It also eschews typical gallery norms by displaying personal ephemera alongside museum-grade masterpieces that would likely fetch nine figures at auction. Receipts showing hotel bills, purchases from clothing stores, and first-class airfare run the risk of skewing too granular. (Do we really need to know that he spent $90 on a pair of 30-inch-waist Katharine Hamnett pants?) Perhaps that’s the point, especially in an age where Basquiat’s iconography is exhaustingly commercialized across Coach handbags and Ruggable rugs.

In Their Own Words: “We’ve had a tremendous amount of focus on Basquiat,” Hoffman tells The Guardian, perhaps nodding to the brand collaboration saturation or the forgery scandal afflicting the Orlando Museum of Art. “There’s still tons more that can be done in terms of a greater in-depth understanding of who this man was, how deep his vision was, really how extraordinary and unique.”

Surface Says: It’s easy to assume we know everything that Basquiat achieved in his 27 short years. “Made on Market Street” suggests otherwise.

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There are only a handful of fine dining destinations in the city, and within barely a year of its opening, Arkestra has joined the ultra-exclusive club. Helmed by Cenk Debensason and Debora Ipekel, the restaurant sits at the heart of a destination villa that also hosts cocktail bar The Listening Room and Ritmo, a less formal dining concept that offers bistro classics like oysters, champagne, and tartare.

Arkestra, however, is a vision of opulence with interiors by ​Tayfun Mumcu Studio, and which bring together swaths of jewel-toned leather, wood panels, and velvet wallcoverings in spades. Together, the scene-setting renders hospitality industry staples like Andreu World and Louis Poulsen near-unrecognizable. The menu reflects Debensason’s classical French training, with a few Japanese, Korean, and Italian influences for good measure. The adventurous eaters among us should be delighted to see lionfish ceviche on the starters list, while mains like pesto agnolotti, mushroom risotto, and lamb shoulder offer familiarity to a multitude of diners.

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What: Frank Stella said that one of his most recent objectives has been to “build a painting rather than paint a painting.” A quintet of ambitious new works—which were wheeled into Manhattan on double-wide flatbed trucks—realize this idea, extending the minimalist master’s recognizable forms even further into three dimensions, where they seem to float in anti-gravity. He builds them with computer models before 3D-printing small sculptural maquettes that are sent to fabricators in the Netherlands and Belgium, where they’re engineered and constructed using technology derived from shipbuilding and coated with automotive paint.

What does Paris’s cafe culture smell like? The French fragrance house of Diptyque offers perhaps the most idealized answer to that question through its new collection, collaboratively created with the city’s first and oldest coffee roaster, Verlet. It offers four new candles in the scents of chantilly cream, biscuits, and candied fruits. Sexier accords, like warming spices and patchouli impart the unexpected. From $70.

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Surface Says: Through its relationship with curators, embrace of innovation, and collaborative, artist-run platform, Untitled is paving a new way for independent fairs.

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