As the irascible New Yorker unveils his new velvet paintings, he talks about global disasters, sending Trump a resignation speech via Ivanka – and teaching Johnny Depp how to paint
Julian Schnabel is agitated. The artist and director has just walked into his new exhibition at the Pace gallery in Manhattan and is fixated on the folding table I’m standing behind. “What’s that?” he asks the PR person. “It’s … a table,” she replies. “I thought you could sit at it for the interview?” Schnabel looks appalled at the very idea. The table, he explains, is blocking the paintings. It’s upset the equilibrium of the room. It needs to be moved immediately.
Schnabel – who shot to fame with his smashed plate paintings in the early 80s then found success as a director with films such as Basquiat, Before Night Falls and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, does...
Julian Schnabel is agitated. The artist and director has just walked into his new exhibition at the Pace gallery in Manhattan and is fixated on the folding table I’m standing behind. “What’s that?” he asks the PR person. “It’s … a table,” she replies. “I thought you could sit at it for the interview?” Schnabel looks appalled at the very idea. The table, he explains, is blocking the paintings. It’s upset the equilibrium of the room. It needs to be moved immediately.
Schnabel – who shot to fame with his smashed plate paintings in the early 80s then found success as a director with films such as Basquiat, Before Night Falls and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, does...
- 9/26/2023
- by Arwa Mahdawi
- The Guardian - Film News
Ellen Pompeo, one of the highest-paid actors on television, with a $20 million annual contract for her long-running role on “Grey’s Anatomy,” has sold a 1920s Spanish villa positioned high on an elevated double lot in the historic Whitley Heights neighborhood in the foothills above Hollywood for tad less than $2.8 million. Property records show the new owner as Sandra J. Brant, long-ago ex-wife of contemporary art-collecting industrialist Peter Brant; long-time partner and widow of vaunted writer, editor and culture critic Ingrid Sischy; and, as the former CEO and publisher of now-shuttered Interview magazine, a member of the art- and literature-centric international glitterati.
With many intact and restored period details such as stone balustrades and gilt-trimmed ceiling beams, the just shy of 2,500-square-foot two-bedroom and two-bathroom residence was acquired by Pompeo close to 13 years ago for $1.35 million. A grand, double-height living room with oversized fireplace and three gigantic arched windows leads...
With many intact and restored period details such as stone balustrades and gilt-trimmed ceiling beams, the just shy of 2,500-square-foot two-bedroom and two-bathroom residence was acquired by Pompeo close to 13 years ago for $1.35 million. A grand, double-height living room with oversized fireplace and three gigantic arched windows leads...
- 7/31/2018
- by Mark David
- Variety Film + TV
Sometimes a king issues orders before he has a throne.
This was the case for Gianni Versace who was 19 — and had not yet founded the revered Versace fashion house — when he directed his sister, Donatella Versace, to dye her hair blonde. She was 11. The inspiration? Patty Pravo, an Italian singer.
“Back then Gianni was so obsessed with Pravo, an iron-straight-haired ‘blond,’ that he persuaded eleven-year-old Donatella to dye her own hair just like his heroine,” writes Ingrid Sischy in the first chapter of Versace by Donatella Versace with Maria Luisa Frisa and Stefano Tonchi. The book is an “intimate visual...
This was the case for Gianni Versace who was 19 — and had not yet founded the revered Versace fashion house — when he directed his sister, Donatella Versace, to dye her hair blonde. She was 11. The inspiration? Patty Pravo, an Italian singer.
“Back then Gianni was so obsessed with Pravo, an iron-straight-haired ‘blond,’ that he persuaded eleven-year-old Donatella to dye her own hair just like his heroine,” writes Ingrid Sischy in the first chapter of Versace by Donatella Versace with Maria Luisa Frisa and Stefano Tonchi. The book is an “intimate visual...
- 11/1/2016
- by samgillettetimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
We've posted a roundup of interviews: Lucile Hadzihalilovic, whose Evolution is released in the UK next week; Zelimir Zilnik, whose 1995 award-winning Marble Ass was revived at the Berlinale this year; Richard Linklater, who talks about all his films and the current presidential primaries; Albert Magnoli, who directed Prince's Purple Rain; Raymond Depardon, whose Les Habitants has just opened in France; Juliette Binoche, who talks about L’Attesa; Whit Stillman on his 90s trilogy and his latest, Love & Friendship; and Interview has posted Ingrid Sischy's 1994 conversation with Tom Hanks. » - David Hudson...
- 4/30/2016
- Keyframe
We've posted a roundup of interviews: Lucile Hadzihalilovic, whose Evolution is released in the UK next week; Zelimir Zilnik, whose 1995 award-winning Marble Ass was revived at the Berlinale this year; Richard Linklater, who talks about all his films and the current presidential primaries; Albert Magnoli, who directed Prince's Purple Rain; Raymond Depardon, whose Les Habitants has just opened in France; Juliette Binoche, who talks about L’Attesa; Whit Stillman on his 90s trilogy and his latest, Love & Friendship; and Interview has posted Ingrid Sischy's 1994 conversation with Tom Hanks. » - David Hudson...
- 4/30/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Introduced by Elizabeth Hurley, Sir Elton John played a riveting performance at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on Tuesday, pounding out hit after hit on the keyboard of a thundering grand piano. The benefit's cause - the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, which fights to eradicate breast cancer - recently hit home for the musician. "Ladies and gentlemen, I lost my best friend last year, and it doesn't seem possible that she's not with me anymore," John, 69, said onstage during the annual Hot Pink Party for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, a black tie gala. As he spoke, images of Ingrid Sischy,...
- 4/14/2016
- by Jeffrey Slonim, @jeffreyjslonim
- PEOPLE.com
Introduced by Elizabeth Hurley, Sir Elton John played a riveting performance at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on Tuesday, pounding out hit after hit on the keyboard of a thundering grand piano. The benefit's cause - the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, which fights to eradicate breast cancer - recently hit home for the musician. "Ladies and gentlemen, I lost my best friend last year, and it doesn't seem possible that she's not with me anymore," John said onstage during the annual Hot Pink Party for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, a black tie gala. As he spoke, images of Ingrid Sischy,...
- 4/14/2016
- by Jeffrey Slonim, @jeffreyjslonim
- PEOPLE.com
The American 1980s didn’t begin or end with Ingrid Sischy, but her tenure as editor-in-chief of Artforum — from 1980, when she was 27, to 1988 — made her a perpetual presence, lightning-rod gatekeeper, and immense id of artistic status, ambition, and fame. Friend of Julian Schnabel, Jeff Koons, Nan Goldin, Francesco Clemente, Peter Hujar, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lil' Kim, Chloë Sevigny, Miuccia Prada, Sean Penn, Helmut Lang, Todd Solondz, k.d. lang, Valentino, and Veronica Webb, and nurturer and torturer of gifted writers like Rene Ricard and Lisa Liebmann, this Sarah Lawrence graduate was a poster child for the unbridled desire of the 1980s, its creative pretentiousness in its very best and most crazy forms, the one who helped integrate underground, mainstream, fashion, rock 'n' roll, and anyone who showed up and tried to make a connection. When The New Yorker called Sischy “Girl of the Zeitgeist” above an epic...
- 7/24/2015
- by Jerry Saltz
- Vulture
Ingrid Sischy, a fashion editor and writer with fifty years of experience in the industry, died Friday at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center after a long battle with breast cancer. She was was 63. The industry veteran was a longtime Interview magazine editor who got her start working at the Museum of Modern Art before becoming editor of Artforum in 1980. In 1990, she took over Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. Though she expected to stay only a few years, she remained at the publication for almost two decades, expanding its focus to all things fashion, art, music, photography, films and.
- 7/24/2015
- by Kathy Zerbib
- The Wrap
Anna Wintour, Livia Firth, Georgina Chapman, Keren Craig and Anne Hathaway at The True Cost Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Livia Firth is a committed activist who is looking towards the future. She is the founder of The Green Carpet Challenge, Creative Director of Eco-Age, and Oxfam Global Ambassador along with Bill Nighy, Helen Mirren, Annie Lennox, Desmond Tutu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Helena Christensen, and Colin Firth. At the Georgina Chapman, Harvey Weinstein, William Ivey Long, Cindy Sherman and Stella McCartney invitation screening of Andrew Morgan's The True Cost, organised by Peggy Siegal, Livia and I spoke about her role as The True Cost executive producer (credited as Livia Giuggioli), exposing myths, and what it means to connect the issues to work towards reversing brainwashing.
Vogue Fashion Director Tonne Goodman: "I know Livia and I know how thorough she is…" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Isabella Rossellini, Yigal Azrouel, Ingrid Sischy, Sandra Brant,...
Livia Firth is a committed activist who is looking towards the future. She is the founder of The Green Carpet Challenge, Creative Director of Eco-Age, and Oxfam Global Ambassador along with Bill Nighy, Helen Mirren, Annie Lennox, Desmond Tutu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Helena Christensen, and Colin Firth. At the Georgina Chapman, Harvey Weinstein, William Ivey Long, Cindy Sherman and Stella McCartney invitation screening of Andrew Morgan's The True Cost, organised by Peggy Siegal, Livia and I spoke about her role as The True Cost executive producer (credited as Livia Giuggioli), exposing myths, and what it means to connect the issues to work towards reversing brainwashing.
Vogue Fashion Director Tonne Goodman: "I know Livia and I know how thorough she is…" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Isabella Rossellini, Yigal Azrouel, Ingrid Sischy, Sandra Brant,...
- 6/18/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Executive producer of The True Cost Livia Firth with producer Michael Ross and director Andrew Morgan Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At the Film Society of Lincoln Center last night, Georgina Chapman, Harvey Weinstein, William Ivey Long, Cindy Sherman and Stella McCartney held a star-studded private screening of Andrew Morgan's The True Cost, with executive producer Livia Firth (credited as Livia Giuggioli).
Anna Wintour in support of Livia Firth Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Anna Wintour, Isabella Rossellini, Yigal Azrouel, Giovanna Battaglia, Keren Craig, Stephanie Lacava, Anne Hathaway with Adam Shulman, Tonne Goodman, Timo Weiland, Laura Piety, Steven Kolb, Julia Garner, Julia Loomis, Amy Fine Collins, Derek Blasberg, Gigi Mortimer, Ingrid Sischy, Michael Avedon, Sandra Brant, Diana Picasso, Christine Baranski, Fatima Siad, Luma Grothe, Alexandra Agoston, Joy Ciocci, Aimee Ruby, Alise Shoemaker, Joy and Regis Philbin, were among those attending the screening at the Francesca Beale Theater, which was followed by a cocktail...
At the Film Society of Lincoln Center last night, Georgina Chapman, Harvey Weinstein, William Ivey Long, Cindy Sherman and Stella McCartney held a star-studded private screening of Andrew Morgan's The True Cost, with executive producer Livia Firth (credited as Livia Giuggioli).
Anna Wintour in support of Livia Firth Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Anna Wintour, Isabella Rossellini, Yigal Azrouel, Giovanna Battaglia, Keren Craig, Stephanie Lacava, Anne Hathaway with Adam Shulman, Tonne Goodman, Timo Weiland, Laura Piety, Steven Kolb, Julia Garner, Julia Loomis, Amy Fine Collins, Derek Blasberg, Gigi Mortimer, Ingrid Sischy, Michael Avedon, Sandra Brant, Diana Picasso, Christine Baranski, Fatima Siad, Luma Grothe, Alexandra Agoston, Joy Ciocci, Aimee Ruby, Alise Shoemaker, Joy and Regis Philbin, were among those attending the screening at the Francesca Beale Theater, which was followed by a cocktail...
- 6/17/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Movie icon Elizabeth Taylor has exposed her first husband, Conrad Hilton Jr., as a "cruel" drunk in a new magazine interview. The actress was a teenager when she exchanged vows with the hotel heir in 1950 and was so smitten with the handsome socialite she studied Catholicism to be his wife. But she admits she never took the union seriously enough and divorced Hilton, who is the uncle of Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton's father, nine months later - after discovering he had a drinking problem. Revealing all in a candid new expose with Interview editor Ingrid Sischy, the actress recalls, "When I got a divorce... I never told the court why, but he was cruel. When he drank it all came out, and I hadn't seen that before because he was on the wagon the eight months we were engaged. I didn't have a clue. But I thought, 'This isn't why God put me on earth.'" Taylor, who wed another seven times, had an inkling her first marriage wouldn't work out as she stood before the archbishop on her big day. She adds, "When I had to swear in front of the archbishop to be a good wife and all that stuff, I had my fingers crossed behind my back because I didn't know if I could be a good wife."...
- 1/31/2007
- WENN
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