Is the New "York Times complicit in the sanitizing of the Life of Jean -Michel Basquiat for the market

I wrote the following letter to the Arts Editor of the New York Times after reading a memory piece and video montage about Jean-Mitchel Basquiat

Dear Editor;

I tried to find a link to the two writers, MEKADO MURPHY and LAURA van STRAATEN, of the recent Jean-Mitchel Basquiat article 

"The Jean-Michel Basquiat You Haven’t Seen" 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/arts/design/jean-michel-basquiat-artwork.html 

 While I have no desire to rain on the monetized memories of Alexis Adler, I must say she has sanitized the person who she lived with 1979-1980. I would suggest your writers should not be a part of this sanitized process. I remember J-MB well from that time. He was best known to us downtown as @samo; both his graffiti signature and his self- created identity. 

I had many encounters with him as I had opened two clubs that 

were popular with his/our scene:  the re-invented Hurrah, and the first Danceteria. J-MB  was a scenester,  Because J-MB came from a middle-class black family, he had the social skills to gain entrance and be socially engaged in a way different from the B-Boys that Raza Blue brought into her hip-hop events at my clubs and other nights around town.  

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