Basquiat at barbican

The style and content of Basquiat's paintings have been reproduced and reappropriated countlessly leaving the contemporary viewer with a feeling of numbness when confronting the artworks.The show is focusing on the uniqueness of the "radiant child", a suffered soul, living in a box, then suddenly a friend of Warhol's and mega superstar with exhibitions at MoMa and Gagosian. Yet, it is overlooking the lack of change in the 'authenticity' of the paintings that stayed as brutal and primitive as before becoming a pop celebrity. 'Boom for Real" doesn't approach the topics of repetitiveness, branding and commodification making the show a historical praise of the late capitalist celebrity culture. The exhibition is curated from a purely institutional perspective counting for profit rather than widening the discourse. I don't understand why the show looks like it could be curated in the 90s ignoring the accumulated critical and theoretical knowledge. I guess it's unavoidable to curate an institutional retrospective of a superstar not to meet audiences expectations considering the market prices of Basquiat. More criticality than absolute minimum could leave the Barbican in debt.