ORLANDO MUSEUM BASQUIAT EXHIBITION “SMOKING GUN” STILL SMOLDERING: As It Turns Out, People Collect Vintage FedEx Packaging (Not Me!) & It’s Sold On eBay

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Just a reminder: although the Orlando Museum of Art appears to have successfully tamped down the revelation a FedEx logo used on packaging and corporate identity after Jean-Michel Basquiat’s August 12, 1988 death impertinently appeared on cardboard linked to the “25 lost Basquiats”, it’s true.

Hell, even Playskool got it right in its 1984 toy catalog!

And if you don’t believe me, just ask character actor Stephen Tobolowsky.

He made a series of “Federal Express” television commercials in the 1980’s, including this one in 1982. If Basquiat had truly painted the “lost works” in 1982, then where did he get the 1994 “FedEx” packaging that wasn’t created until six years after his death?

And how did he get back to the future, and then back again to Venice, California, without Larry Gagosian missing him.