LongHouse Reserve Honors Filmmaker And Artist Julian Schnabel At July 20 Benefit

LongHouse Reserve will honor artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel at its upcoming summer benefit on Saturday, July 20, at 6 p.m., on the grounds of the sculpture garden, 133 Hands Creek Road, East Hampton.

Julian Schnabel was born in New York City in 1951. In 1965 he moved with his family to Brownsville, Texas. He attended the University of Houston from 1969 to 1973, receiving a BFA, and returned to New York to participate in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1978 Mr. Schnabel traveled throughout Europe and, in Barcelona, was particularly moved by the architecture of Antoni Gaudí. That same year he made his first plate painting, The Patients and the Doctors. His first solo painting exhibition took place at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York City in February 1979.

His paintings, sculptures, and works on paper have been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions. In 1996 Mr. Schnabel wrote and directed the feature film “Basquiat,” about fellow New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The film was in the official selection of the 1996 Venice Film Festival. His second film, “Before Night Falls,” based on the life of the late exiled Cuban novelist Reinaldo Arenas, won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Coppa Volpi for best actor, Javier Bardem, at the 2000 Venice Film Festival. In 2007 Schnabel directed his third film, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.” He received the award for Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival as well as Best Director at the Golden Globe Awards, where the film won Best Foreign Language Film. The film was also nominated for four Oscars. That same year, 2007, Mr. Schnabel made a film of Lou Reed’s Berlin concert at Saint Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. Following that, his film “Miral” won the UNESCO as well as the UNICEF award at the 2010 Venice Film Festival. Mr. Schnabel’s most recent film, “At Eternity’s Gate” (2018), about Vincent van Gogh, had its premiere at the 2018 Venice Film Festival, where Willem Dafoe won best actor. He also was nominated best actor at the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards.

His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Guggenheim Museum, New York and Bilbao; Tate, London; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Musée d’Art Moderne Grande-Duc Jean, Luxembourg; and Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Julian Schnabel currently lives and works in New York City and Montauk, Long Island. Tickets for the LongHouse Reserve benefit start at $650 at longhouse.org.