My column this week looks at the way ever-changing fads and fashions can obscure the very art they sometimes sweep up in their energy.  Jean-Michel Basquiat, who died in 1988, has been experiencing just such a fashion-driven boost in his reputation for the past couple of years.  While it may help sell new lines of clothes or whatever, when our first thought of an artist’s work is of it appearing on a tee shirt, it becomes almost impossible to see the art on its own terms.  Read the whole thing here.