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LONGHOUSE
RESERVE
SUMMER
BENEFIT
HONORED
JULIAN
SCHNABEL AND
DONNA KARAN
LAURIE
ANDERSON
PERFORMED
Saturday,
July 20,
2019
LongHouse
Reserve, 133
Hands Creek
Road,
East Hampton
11937
LongHouse
Reserve
honored
Julian
Schnabel and
Donna Karan
at their
Summer
Benefit this
weekend. The
evening's
theme was la
vie en rose.
Guests
meandered
through
dunes strewn
with pink
and red rose
petals, and
had been
gifted
rose-colored
sunglasses
to sport
during the
evening.
More than
500 people
gathered for
cocktails,
and more
than 300 for
dinner. The
evening
raised in
excess of
$800,000. In
accepting
the
Leadership
Award, Donna
Karan said,
“I wanted to
be an
artist, but
they didn’t
think I was
good enough.
I wanted to
be a singer
like Barbara
Streisand. I
wanted to do
a movie with
her and she
said that I
can’t
remember any
lines. I
finally did
do a
collection
for her and
it was
amazing.
Dreams do
come true.
So my dream
tonight is
to be here
at LongHouse.”
Julian
Schnabel,
upon
receiving
the
LongHouse
Award,
modestly
remarked,
“What
Benjamin
Saint-Clementine
would play
on the piano
would be
much more
profound
than
anything I
could say.”
Laurie
Anderson
explained,
“Watching
Julian paint
was like a
monumental
movie being
shot and
edited in
front of
you. It’s
also
watching
someone
completely
free. It was
breathtaking.”
LongHouse Founder and Artistic Director Jack Lenor Larsen, as well as
Board
Chairman
Dianne
Benson and
Executive
Director
Matko
Tomicic,
also spoke.
The festive
dinner
beneath
outdoor
crystal
chandeliers
was followed
by Laurie
Anderson’s
performance.
A Silent Auction of 94 lots included works by Alice Aycock, Basquiat, Dale
Chihuly,
Joel Grey,
Peter Hujar,
Horst P.
Horst, Kiki
Smith, Andy
Warhol, Ai
Weiwei,
Robert
Wilson, and
more.
Furniture by
Larsen was
included,
too. Julian
Schnabel was
accompanied
by his wife,
Louise
Kugelberg,
as well as
his
children,
Vito, Olmo
and Cy.
Donna Karan
brought her
daughter,
Gabby Karan
de Felice,
who said,
“My mom is
my mentor,
best friend,
soul mate
and an
inspiration.”
The
Benefit’s
Chairs were
Dorothy
Lichtenstein
and Neda
Young.
Honorary
Chairs were
Bill T.
Jones and
Bjorn Amelan,
Andrew
Saffir and
Daniel
Benedict,
Dale and
Leslie
Chihuly,
Gabby Karan
De Felice
and
Gianpaolo De
Felice,
Helmut Lang;
Fern Mallis
Vito
Schnabel,
Robert
Wilson; Axel
Vervoordt,
Larry Warsh,
Coleen
Saidman Yee
and Rodney
Yee. The
Benefit
Committee
included
Dianne
Benson,
Dr. Stacey
Collé, Nick
Martin, Mia
Ljungberg
Nevado,
Selena
Rothwell,
and Wendy
Van Deusen.
LongHouse
has recently
installed
two
monumental
sculptures
by Julian
Schnabel.
Both
sculptures
are raw and
earthy, his
use of
plaster over
burlap gives
them a
textural
feel as if
the forms
are clothed.
Their
human-like
forms are a
strong
presence.
Both their
titles are
evocative of
classical
art. Balzac,
with
sprouting
branches,
looks
completely
at home in
our garden
setting
while
Gradiva is
situated on
a large
expanse of
lawn between
the Black
Mirror and
Yoko Ono’s,
Play it by
Trust.
Gradiva is a
reference to
the novella
Gradiva by
the German
author
Wilhelm
Jensen.
Julian
Schnabel
calls her,
“a modern
20th century
mythological
figure, the
woman who
walks.
Sprung out
of the
imagination
of a
fictional
character,
she may be
considered
unreal twice
over”.
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