Julian Schnabel

PEN World Voices: Kronos Quartet vs. A Trio of Scribes

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Tony Kushner, Marjane Satrapi, Kronos Quartet, Rula Jebreal, Julian Schnabel, Salman Rushdie, PEN World Voices Festival, Culture News

Veering toward the political, recordings announcing the dropping of the atomic bomb, and the gap between words and music became more pronounced.

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Creative Block? Julian Schnabel Can Help!

Posted 01.17.2012

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Filmmaker-painter-designer Julian Schnabel has revealed his secret to getting out of creative ruts, and it's pretty simple: Get back to work. In th...

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Starting-Out Artists: Are Your Career Expectations Realistic?

Daniel Grant | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Ben Aronson, New York Times, Julian Schnabel, Business of Art, Kenny Scharf, Mark Kostabi, Robert Longo, Arts News

The 1980s generated the idea of the fine artist as rock star, coming on fast and furious at a young age, entering the international art circuit, cashing in quickly because no one lasts more than a decade. It can happen, it has happened, but it doesn't happen very often.

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Breathtaking Religious Imagery In Lech Majewski's 'The Mill And The Cross'

Kisa Lala | Posted 11.13.2011

By Kiša Lala Film still from The Mill and the Cross, 2011 Directed by Lech Majewski - Credit: Kino Lorber, Inc. Some time ago as part of my long ...

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Julian Schnabel Twitter Q & A

storify.com | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Hirshhorn Museum, Twitter, The Hand of Dante, #Askjulian, Museums, Smithsonian, Miral, Julian Schnabel, Dialogues, Film, Arts News

On Friday, May 13, 2011, at 2:30 pm EDT, artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel took questions from Twitter users. This is part of the Hirshhorn's new D...

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Gestural Painting, Roasting Pigs & Scratching Heads: Josh Smith's New Exhibition

Dorothy Spears | Posted 07.16.2011

Josh Smith and his dinosaur painting, Brant Foundation/courtesy Billy Farrell Agency If lush green paddocks, a pig roast, an abundance of celebriti...

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Mayor Bloomberg Speaks Out For Detained Chinese Artist

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 07.04.2011

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NEW YORK -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared with a dozen prominent cultural figures in front of New York City's Plaza Hotel Wednesday to open a piece...

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Miral Defies Racial Stereotypes of Arabs in the Media

David A. Love | Posted 06.13.2011

This film presents Palestinians as everyday human beings in all their complexities. Miral provided a public service to viewers who are unexposed to the Israel occupation.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: A New Documentary

Carine Fabius | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Haitian Art, Moca, Jean Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, Killy, Jean Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Tamra Davis, Warhol, Beyond the Box, Itvs, Arts News

In preparation for the release of Jean Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, I was asked by The Independent Television Service (ITVS), which presents aw...

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'Miral' Tackles Controversy, Gets Major Praise From Johnny Depp & Critics

Posted 06.08.2011

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Several of Hollywood's biggest names are coming out in support of Julian Schnabel's controversial new film "Miral," with quotes from Johnny Depp and J...

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Miral's Rula Jebreal: The Palestinian Woman who wrote the Book that Started this Big Screening War

Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011

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This week, days before Miral's release, I talked to Rula Jebreal about her life, her story, the film, violence, and her optimism for a peaceful future for Israelis and Palestinians alike.

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Can a Palestinian Story Prompt Dialogue for Middle East Peace?

Danielle Berrin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Julian Schnabel Miral, Rula Jebreal, Rabbi Irwin Kula, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Miral, Julian Schnabel, American Jewish Committee, Rabbi Marvin Hier, World News

Julian Schnabel must have known that screening a film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the United Nations General Assembly would be scene-ste...

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ReThink Interview: Julian Schnabel, Director of Miral (VIDEO)

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Intifada, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Rula Jebreal, Hiam Abbass, Rethink Interview, Rethink Reviews, Julian Schnabel, Miral, Israel, Palestines, Freida Pinto, Frieda Pinto, Entertainment News

Schnabel has succeeded in two fields that are notoriously difficult to making a living at: art and film. Now he has taken on a real challenge: making a movie about a Palestinian girl.

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Schnabel's Miral Premieres at the UN: An Irrefutable Sign of the Times

E. Nina Rothe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miral, Palestine, Julian Schnabel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Julian Schnabel Miral, Entertainment News

Miral is a cinematic journey into a people's experience few of us are comfortable with facing, a political cause few would admit they wholeheartedly support.

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Miral Screens at the United Nations General Assembly

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Schnabel's film does not instigate a new critique. Rather, continues a discourse in Israel with intellectuals and writers like David Grossman, Amos Oz, and Yehuda Amichai.

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She's BACK

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miral Movie, Entertainment, Movie Trailers, Miral Trailer, Miral Poster, Miral, Julian Schnabel, Film, Movies, Frieda-Pinto, Entertainment News

Frieda Pinto returns to the big screen this month as an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in war-torn Jerusalem. Pinto, who plays the title charact...

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Alexander Siddig -- Discovering the Uncommon Hero

E. Nina Rothe | Posted 05.25.2011

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I meet Siddig in Doha, Qatar, where he is promoting Miral, the latest Julian Schnabel film which has had more than its fair share of criticism.

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Report: Jeffrey Deitch Planning Julian Schnabel Retrospective At MOCA

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Everything that Jeffrey Deitch says seems calculated to make a splash. And so it was the case Thursday night when the director of the Museum of Contem...

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CELEBRITIES ARE ARTISTS TOO: Jim Carrey Rents Studio Space From Schnabel

Posted 05.25.2011

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Having made great art with his putty face and eloquent posterior, Jim Carrey is also applying his talents to the canvas these days, even renting studi...

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A Q&A With Rachid Benzine

Julian Schnabel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Rula Jebreal, Miral, William Dafoe, Rachid Benzine, Julian Schnabel, Freida Pinto, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Arts News

We can be truthful in our endeavors, search for objectivity, keep a critical eye, but if we forget we always are -- despite our best intentions -- in a subjective space, we are lying to ourselves and to others.

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Keep Barnsdall Under LA City Operation

ArtScene | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Municipal Art Gallery, Jeffrey Deitch, Josine Ianco-Starrels, Marlena Donohue, Julian Schnabel, Dennis Hopper, Moca, Barnsdall Park, Arts News

To have one hegemonic curatorial voice in a city as diverse as Los Angeles, especially when that voice is funded so strongly by one benefactor, is dangerous and delimiting.

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WATCH: Tamra Davis On Capturing 'The Radiant Child,' Jean-Michel Basquiat

Michael Kurcfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, New York Club Scene, Tamra Davis, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Films, Graffiti, Documentary, Documentary Film, Graffiti-Art, Painting, Basquiat, Arts News

Today we take it for granted when seeing graffiti art in a posh gallery, but arguably the first artist to channel the urban street frequencies of his ...

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LA Times Waits 30 Years to Confront MOCA on Artist Selection

Mat Gleason | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Moca, Julian Schnabel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Times, Christopher Knght, Art Critics, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Arts News

I wouldn't again pay $6.50 for parking to see the retrospective of Dennis Hopper curated by Julian Schnabel currently on view at the Geffen wing of LA MOCA.

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Art Versus Entertainment: The Gap is Essential

Bill Lasarow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Julian Schnabel, Dennis Hopper, Marina Abramovic, Marcel Duchamp, Art, Art vs Entertainment, Arts News

The encounter between artist and audience is far more ambiguous and problematic in the art world than in the entertainment industry in spite of about a half century of critical and art world exertions to that distinction.

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Low Double Standards: Review of Dennis Hopper Posthumous Art Opening

Fine Arts LA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Martin, Dennis Hopper, L.A. Story, Charlie Sheen, Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Blue Velvet, Jane Fonda, Speed, Diane Keaton, Easy Rider, Liv Tyler, Andy Warhol, Mario Bros., Robert Rauschenberg, Ike and Tina Turner, Martin Luther King Jr., Julian Schnabel, Moca, Arts News

At the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, the opening of "Dennis Hopper: Double Standard" felt more like a cinematic tribute to Los Angeles stereotypes than a serious exhibition.

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