,” Hervé Télémaque offers “One artist’s improvisation on another’s.” Haitian-born painter Hervé Télémaque is based in Paris, France. The war of rum and gin From Pétion-Ville a little road runs toward Port-au-Prince and the airport. Near a puddle there, Jacob Lawrence drew an arrow pointing to New York. “If it is’nt love.” Jean-Michel Basquiat walks alone, wearing an elegant suit and bare, painful feet. An optimist for sure! In fact a “foolish optimist,” according to the drawing. He only speaks the language of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. Not a word in French or Creole, but two words in Spanish, “