The sculpture garden at the Museum of Modern Art, closed to the public under the evening midtown sky in New York City, was witness to the first glimmers of a chic summer return for the art world on…
“Art, family, friends—that’s what we’ve missed for 15 months,” saidco-founder, CEO, and executive chair of Tribeca Enterprises, gesturing to Schnabel, a longtime partner to Tribeca. “It is a privilege to be here among brilliant friends.”Over drinks before the screening, Rosenthal shared stories of Tribeca’s long partnership with Schnabel, who Rosenthal picked as one of the festival’s first jurors 20 years ago.
Sophie Kargman, Dree Hemingway, and Leigh Lezark attend Chanel’s Tribeca Festival screening of Julian Schnabel’s remastered film, “Basquiat.”This year for Tribeca, Schanbel remastered his 1996 biographical picture of Jean-Michael Basquiat starring Jeffrey Wright alongside David Bowie as Andy Warhol, re-colorizing the film in black and white.
“It’s a different film when you take away all the color,” said Schnabel. “You don’t get distracted by the painting.” That the evening was dedicated to celebrating Basquiat, now evolved as the towering figure of the catch-all “neo-expressionists” and an anointed martyr of a 1980s art movement that turned painters into international celebrities, offered an imaginably unintentional, though poignant contrast.
“When [artist and art critic] Rene Ricard is in Basquiat’s basement studio, there’s never been a Black artist in art history who has been considered really important,’” Schnabel recalled about a scene in the film. “To that, Jean-Michel says, ‘Are you a writer, or are you a white writer?’”
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