Back of the Neck Jigsaw Puzzle

$14.50 at Brooklyn Museum.

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s massive print Back of the Neck requires both a step back and a closer look. It is rare to see a work on paper of this size, and maybe even rarer to see a piece by Basquiat outside of a private collection; it has taken a long time for public institutions to give him his deserved flowers, despite his fame. Inspired by a childhood encounter with the book Gray’s Anatomy, he bends, exposes, and twists a neck, spine, and arm in this work, each body part annotated as if this were a medical…