"Basquiat showed up at a party at my house with [performance artist/drug dealer] Rockets Redglare and Rockets had a gun on him," recalled Robert Longo. "I asked Rockets to leave the party. I said to Jean-Michel, ‘Either he has to go or you both have to go.' It was intense. Rockets left."  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/14/12

Artist Robert Longo shows the sunny side of Brooklyn with a line of T-shirts—or does he?  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/31/10