Jean-Michel Basquiat has become one of the most imitated – or ripped-off – artists of all time. Almost forty years after his death, social media is still awash with aspiring painters spinning around a canvas, only to reveal a derivative jumble of crowns, scrawled figures and fragmented phrases. This art is often criticised for mindlessly copying and pasting the visual language of an artist whose work was responding to a specific context – the New York art world of the 1980s – and hishellip;read more raquo;