Art pretension

Re Christopher Knight’s review of the Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art [“Hail the King,” July 19]: There isn’t a landlord in America who, if he found these random scrawls on his walls, wouldn’t immediately paint them over. If Basquiat’s work is a parody of intellectual pretension, Knight’s appraisal would have been the first one he would have taken aim at.

Keith Rocklin

Los Angeles

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MOCA delivers! The Basquiat exhibition overflows with exuberance, talent and intrigue -- a “must see” for art lovers everywhere.

Jo Nelsen

Pasadena