FIELD REPORT
March 24, 2026
Bash Wathier brought Vandalized Classicism and the war on hotel art to Saatchi on Jan. 10, 2026. Since then, Bash's counter-insurgency has received over 7,000 views and multiple works regularly appear in the Top 100 of multiple major Saatchi Art categories, including:
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2 works in the Top 15 of Neo-Expressionism (1,300 works)
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6 works in the Top 20 of Glitch (1,600 works)
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3 works in the Top 50 of Graffiti (3,600 works)
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3 works in the Top 100 of Music (7,000 works)
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6 works in the top 200 of Classicism (15,000 works)
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5 in the top 200 of Spray Paint (27,000 works)
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6 in the Top 300 of Street Art (46,000 works)
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6 in the Top 300 of Portraiture (102,000 works)​
​​All accomplished without a single curatorial endorsement.
the gatekeepers are nervous. the people are not.
MEDIA COVERAGE
January 20, 2026
DRIFT Magazine
"SAMO (Basquiat Tribute): A Bash Wathier Expression"
"Bash Wathier's SAMO (Basquiat Tribute) does not seek to resurrect Basquiat or replicate his visual language. It acknowledges that Basquiat's most radical gesture was not a style, but a stance."
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