The Little Prince is a poetic tale, illustrated by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in watercolors, in which a pilot stranded in the desert meets a young prince fallen to Earth from a tiny asteroid. The most translated non-religious book in the world, _The Littl…

Jean-Michel Basquiat is one of the best known artists of his generation and is widely considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His career in art spanned the late 1970s through the 1980s until his death in 1988, at the age of 27.

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In our series Why Is This Famous?, we aim to answer the unanswerable: How does a work actually enter the public consciousness? This installment, the first, features da Vinci’s most famous painting. (See all installments).)…