In the midst of Prospect.3, the abundant maze of galleries and installations scattered throughout the city until mid-January, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art stands out with a rare, intimate exploration of Southern culture as seen through the eyes of the late Haitian-American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Heavily influenced by the music of the South, jazz and blues, not only in his social commentary but also in his artistic form, Basquiat distills people and places of the American South in...