I love artiste, award-winning director and painter Julian Schnabel. First off, he directed BASQUIAT. Great film! If you haven't seen it, you really must.
David Bowie plays Andy Warhol! It's fucking brilliant!
The next reason I love Julian Schnabel is because he painted an apartment building he owned BRIGHT ASS PINK! And I think it looks kind of hot.
The 14 story building has incurred no small amount of wrath, the most colorful of which flows from West Village preservationist crazy Andrew Berman, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation's director.
"I don't know for sure -- but my fear is that this will be the color," he said. "I think virtually any other color would be more acceptable." Berman called the building -- with arched windows and clay roof tiles -- Mediterranean style. "What it actually looks like is a house you would see in the hills above Hollywood -- if it was two stories. On the Greenwich Village waterfront at 17 stories, it's a nightmare," he said. The preservationist thought this very may well be intentional -- that Schnabel wants to punish, with pink, those who opposed him..."It almost looks as though he went to great pains to make this building as ugly as possible and to make it stick out like a sore thumb," Berman observed.
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