Installation of Jean-Michel Basquiat Painted Ferris Wheel with Music

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For Luna Luna, Basquiat designed a Ferris wheel on which recurrent subjects from his earlier work appear, including jazz musician Charlie Parker (referenced with the song title “Billie’s Bounce”) and race (referenced with the words “Jim Crow,” followed by a copyright symbol that points at the relationship between the laws regulating the segregation of Black people in the South and the ownership of a human life). The wheel is accompanied by Miles Davis’s 1986 song “Tutu.” It was only after Heller secured permission to use the song that Basquiat agreed to create the Ferris wheel.