Julian Schnabel was an art superstar before turning his hand to writing, music, film, and architecture. A true renaissance man, Schnabel is now touting his large-format Polaroid photographs in a 100-image exhibition at the NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf and an impressive new Prestel monograph.
Turning the 20 x 24 Polaroid camera on friends and family over six years, Schnabel captured fleeting moments in his Manhattan, Montauk, and Brooklyn studios and other locations related to his art and interests. Schnabel's pals Mickey Rourke, Christopher Walken, and Lou Reed are caught on camera hanging out with the artist, while Takashi Murakami, Max von Sydow, and Dick Cavett are documented dropping by the studio to visit.
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Andy Warhol's Factory pals Gerard Malanga, Taylor Mead, Gretchen Berg, John Wilcock, and Bibbe Hansen (Beck's mother) joined Warhol scholar Steven Watson onstage last week at the New York Public Library to discuss the re-release of Wilcock's fabulous book The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol. The stories they shared about their first encounters with Andy, his personality, his pill-popping program for staying thin, and his "sex life" were both hilarious and insightful.
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Published Thursday, July 1, 2010 |
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