battle royale with cheese (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Anyone reading the news this week could not help but be moved by the story of Rom Houben , a 46-year-old Belgian man who had spent the last 23 years in what doctors wrongly believed to be a coma. A scan in 2006 revealed that despite his total paralysis, Houben’s brain had been completely active all along. Now with the ability to communicate using a special keyboard, Houben has recently revealed...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
This year, it might be hard to think of things to be thankful for. Many of us are still experiencing the effects of the Deepest Recession Since the Greatest Depression™,. Afghanistan, Iraq, and health care are still quagmirish. But in the words of former bailout chief Neel Kashkari : “As bad as it is today, it could have been so much worse.” In this spirit, we've decided to be thankful...
FILMdetail (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Christopher Walken and Julian Schnabel eating and cooking together in New York on the IFC show Split Screen back in 1999.
thus spake drake (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
One of the surprise debuts of last year had to be Spectacle: Elvis Costello with... , a talk show featuring Costello pulling off the rare triple threat: host, performer and bandleader. Equal parts interview and jam session, the Sundance series relies upon Costello putting the artists at ease, getting even the prickliest of artists to open up and speak warmly about their influences. But, as Martin Mull...
Dream Sequins (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Hamburg/Antwerp based label hui-hui sent over their Spring/Summer 2010 lookbook and I'm pleased to share some looks with you. Founded in 2002 as a labor of creative love by fashion designer Anne Schwatzler and sisters Johanna and Katharina Trudzinski , fashion designer and textile designer/artist, respectively, hui-hui has evolved into an internationally distributed brand with surprisingly wearable...
Music Maza (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Freida Pinto of the Slumdog Millionaire fame has etched a name in the global forum. Her underprivileged girl act from the film has taken a new dimension in the real life as she would be now involved with a foundation that aims to provide free education to 1,00,000 girls across India by 2010. The foundation, named 'Nanhi Kali', is an initiative of Anand Mahindra the famous business tycoon, who aims...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
ARTIST turned director Sam Taylor-Wood has a lot to live up to with her directorial debut, Nowhere Boy . Firstly, it recalls the early years of one of Britain’s cultural icons, John Lennon. Secondly, she’s following in the acclaimed footsteps of other artists-turned-filmmakers, such as Steve McQueen ( Hunger ) and Julian Schnabel ( The Diving Bell & The Butterfly ). And thirdly, having...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
ARTIST turned director Sam Taylor-Wood has a lot to live up to with her directorial debut, Nowhere Boy . Firstly, it recalls the early years of one of Britain’s cultural icons, John Lennon. Secondly, she’s following in the acclaimed footsteps of other artists-turned-filmmakers, such as Steve McQueen ( Hunger ) and Julian Schnabel ( The Diving Bell & The Butterfly ). And thirdly, having...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
We have it on good authority that there was one big reason art lovers with means weren't buying into the condos in Julian Schnabel's Palazzo Chupi: Julian Schabel. Which is, you know, fair enough. Think about it: He'd be around all the time, flopping about in the pool in tiny swim trunks (or none at all'), chatting with you in his nasally voice, acting pissy if you made any moves toward changing the...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Palazzo Chupi , the semi-pink wonderland built by the yellow-spectacled artist Julian Schnabel , has finally sold off its triplex penthouse. Way back in early 2008, when Chupi was still West 11th Street's frothed-over mega-castle, Mr. Schnabel wanted $32 million for the unit, and $27 million for the duplex below. The latter is now asking only $12.95 million. And the penthouse, according to a deed...
kenneth in the (212) (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Photographer Christophe von Hohenberg revisited a seminal moment of the late '80s on Thursday during a signing and Q&A at Clic Gallery for his 2006 book, "Andy Warhol: The Day the Factory Died," that chronicled the artist's memorial back in 1987. Von Hohenberg says he was actually hired by Vanity Fair to "photograph who was wearing miniskirts at Andy's memorial." As it happened,...
Jon's Blog (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
The third film in the Kino season was the Julian Schnabel film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, or to give it it’s proper title Le Scaphandre et le Papillion . The film follows the life of Jean-Dominique Bauby after he has recently suffered a stroke, which has left him with ‘locked in syndrome’. His mind, memory and imagination are in tact but he is left paralyzed and only able...
Shauna the grinch (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Today in our Kino4 screen club we watched 'Le Scaphandre et le Papillon' (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) from 2007, directed by Julian Schnabel, who is also an artist. Interesting title, interesting and sad story. It is based on the memoirs of Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor of French Elle Magazine, and also a journalist and author. The film is from Bauby's perspective and starts by him waking up...
Cultural Offering.com (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Maxminimus is back up. Old posts are gone but he starts over with some very good advice : "I’ve lamented for years the advent of business casual dress in the corporate realm. Guys particularly-from a practical perspective don’t know how to do it and generally, this casual thing seems to have digressed often times into a hygiene holiday. Some might have heard my rant about this before...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Film-making by committee, however well-intentioned, is never a good idea On the face of it, there's no particular reason why the Tate gallery shouldn't be getting involved in film-making: after all, its own commissions to fill the Turbine Hall have been a consistent success, and fine-art spaces the world over are finding themselves invaded by moving images as much as paintings, sculpture and installations....
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