In a very short life Jean-Michel Basquiat produced roughly 600 paintings. Many of these emerged as series, such as the “Cityscapes” or the “Heroes and Saints.” This exhibition of 60-plus works centers on the series of 11 “Blue Ribbon paintings” from 1984, so called because they all contain the Pabst Blue Ribbon beer logo and bottle cap. The large-scale compositions are mixed-media, a combination of acrylic paint, oil stick, and screenprint that is an inherent nod to Robert Rauschenberg and his no-boundaries approach to art making. “For Basquiat, printmaking provided both new creative possibilities and connections to a wider artistic network that hasn’t been explored in previous exhibitions or scholarship,” says the exhibition’s curator Jordana Moore Saggese, a professor of modern and contemporary American art at the University of Maryland. Almost all of the artist’s known print projects are part of the show. —Laura Jacobs