Basquiat: Boom for Real review – restless energy

Barbican Art Gallery, London
Self-portraits rub shoulders with party polaroids in a retrospective that exudes immediacy and charm
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) is the archetype of the doomed young artist, dead at 27 of a heroin overdose. A film in Boom for Real shows him walking through Manhattan, a hot young star with a sax and a beautiful face, his fame as the secretive graffiti artist Samo (Same Old Shit) already behind him. He is not yet 20.This retrospective – his first here, surpris