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Featured Events & Chelsea Hotel News

Just in case you haven’t picked up a newspaper or read a blog lately, here’s a round-up of links to coverage of the recent events at the Chelsea Hotel.
"Boss INN & Out" — New York Post
"Stinkbombs, Schuffles & Anarchy" — Chelsea Now
"A Crucial Chapter for a Storied Hotel" — LA Times, Chicago Tribune
"Legendarisch Chelsea vecht voor zijn ziel" —  De Pers
"Manner Nachte: Wo Legenden Leb(T)EN" — Focus Magazine
"At a Haven for Creative Souls, a Prolific Talent is Affirmed" — New York Times
"More Shakeups at the Chelsea Hotel" – Observer Real Estate Blog
"Ousted Chelsea Hotel Managers File for Arbitration" — Observer Real Estate Blog
"Chaos at the Chelsea!"  — Observer Real Estate Blog
"Elder Strikes Back" — Observer Real Estate Blog
"Meanwhile at the Hotel Chelsea" — curbed.com
"Big Bruise & Tribute Tattoos" — curbed.com
"Meanwhile at the Hotel Chelsea" — curbed.com
"Has The Chelsea Kicked Out Their Douchy New Management" — gawker.com
"Hotel Chelsea Ousts Glennon Travis" — gothamist.com
"BD Hotels No Longer Managing Hotel Chelsea" — hotelchatter.com
"Chelsea Hotel management on the way out" — City Room

Tuesday, MJuliainsideay 20, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Rizzolli Bookstore will host a book signing with photographer Julia Calfee.  So head uptown, wine and bubbly will be served.
Rizzolli Bookstore, 31 West 57th Str., between 5th & 6th Avenue

Friday, May 23,
Curator Arthur Nash’s scaled down version of his much larger traveling show “Infernal Machines, The Evolution of US Capital Punishment,” has its grand opening at the National Museum of Crime and Punishment in Washington D.C.

Friday, May 23,
Chelsearockscover_2 Filmmaker Abel Ferrara’s new documentary "Chelsea on the Rocks," will premiere at the Cannes film festival. According to the press release, "Chelsea on the Rocks’ celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once considered an untouchable, impenetrable tower for writers, artists, musicians and mavericks, it has been recently claimed as a boutique hotel venture for a management company that shows disregard for its formidable history."  Guess there’s time to rewrite the copy before the U.S. premiere, which will be at CineVegas. 

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16 responses to “Featured Events & Chelsea Hotel News”

  1. Old & Crabby Avatar
    Old & Crabby

    Lo, I think you are wrong. Clearly, the world is sick of art and wants more stinky bombs.

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    Anonymous

    Stinky bombs are art!

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  3. LP Avatar
    LP

    “It’s anarchy!” says Scott Griffin.
    Yay!
    Bring Back the Bards!

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    Anonymous

    When placed correctly and in context, stinky bombs are most definitely art

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    Boms Away

    Theres art hanging all over the Hotel, or there should be, all the time. So some obnoxious photo show put on by a never-was like David Elder hardly represented the spirit of the Hotel on its 125th anniversary, nor was it welcomed by the majority of residents so what are you even worried about? In fact it never would have happened if Elder’s name wasn’t attached to it. So what night shall be the night to celebrate painters? Or Writers? Or dancers? Or poets? What, nothing scheduled? Don’t be so unimaginative.
    If there were stink boms in the air they could only have enhanced an insular, self serving event such as that one. Lo must be one of the organizers ahem…collaborators whose feelings got hurt

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    Anonymous

    Creative Protest is Good for the Soul!

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    103

    were hotel residents even polled or formally invited to participate in this photo show? i dont remember being asked

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  8. Old & Crappy Avatar
    Old & Crappy

    I heard that David Elder only wanted “nice” photos in the show. In other words, Robert Mapplethorpe would not have made the cut unless he submitted his flower photos.

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    Anonymous

    mapplethorpe wasn’t in the show? that’s criminal

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  10. Miss H Avatar
    Miss H

    There is one glaring inaccuracy LA Times/Chicago Tribune article, when the reporter states that the minority sharholders have not revealed their plans for the hotel. They revealed their plans in the first few days when they:
    a) kicked out the Bards without so much as a thank you for their dedicated service;
    b) issued a curt rent demand letter as their first communication with tenants;
    c) issued a press release that didn’t mention the Bards’ accomplishments, the tenants, or anything much other than their plans to maximize profit from the street front retail program; and
    d) hired BD hotels, who have a certain reputation and were seen showing Andre Balaczs around the building.

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  11. Miss H Avatar
    Miss H

    Those weren’t stink bombs! Just vehicles to carry “metaphoric freight.”
    C’mon, clearly this show was The Very Least They Could Do to attempt to show an interest in art and the hotel’s legacy. Stanley demonstrated it every single day in ways they’ll never understand. The only way now for them to show they give a flying fuck about art, the hotel’s residents, and its legacy is to BRING BACK THE BARDS. They really don’t get it. David Elder is a poser trying to ride on Stanley’s long and storied coattails and everyone knows it. If he had a show every day he wouldn’t contribute a thimbleful of what the Bards did. The fact that they are still there and haven’t returned the hotel to its rightful stewards the Bards means they don’t care at all, and deserve any protest they get. Stink Bombs are all well and good — the more the merrier, a thousand couldn’t equal the stink of Krauss and Elder taking over the hotel — but I’d like to see more very public art showing them for what they are, even a Musical as earlier suggested.
    We open in charming, eccentric old hotel, The Hotel Splendide, buzzing with artists and others, The Living and The Ghosts, with a funky song about the hotel.
    Then a Cruella deVille style character, let’s call her Arlene, and her masochistic minion, let’s call him Igor, enter and throw the beloved proprietors out and immediately issue an demand for back rent.
    SONG
    etc.

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    wage slave

    Some of the poems written about Stanley and the hotel would make great song lyrics!

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  13. Served Cold Avatar
    Served Cold

    Great post Miss H! One day in the not so distant future we can have a show to commemorate the resident-based initiative of throwing Elder, Krauss and BD out on their asses. It’ll be sweet. Everybody start your own archive!

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    222

    It sure would be nice if photographer Julia Calfee would give me a copy of her book “Inside the Chelsea Hotel”.
    I mean, the Cover of the book was shot inside my apartment on my couch and…….?
    My wife and myself provided the models for the shot, which would up on the cover.
    She said she would give us a copy of the book….
    We have asked her twice now, and gotten nothing!
    If anyone reading this actually knows Julia Calfee, feel free to pass along this message.
    Peace!
    Apt. #222

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    Anonymous

    David Elder is a coward, a chickenshit.Marlene Krauss is even more so because she hides behind Elder. End of story.

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    Anonymous

    Apt. 222 how could this be true? Ms. Calfee stated at her reading that none of the photos in her book were posed or ‘staged’ in any way. Nice try!

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