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  • Stanley Bard Drops By to Check Out the Show

    On Thursday, Stanley Bard former Managing Dir. stopped by the book launch for Linda Troeller’s “Chelsea Hotel Atmosphere – An Artist’s Memoir”.  There’s still time to check out Linda’s show at the Chelsea Hotel in room 914 during the POOL art fair on Sept 28th and 29th. For more about the book visit www.lindatroeller.com. 

  • Who Will Remember The Shapshaks?

    UPDATE — According to a tipster, Jerry Weinstein has been told by NEW MANAGEMENT that he is no longer personally allowed to accept reservations. (Photo: AFP, Jerry a few days after the ouster.) I thought I had stepped into the twilight zone on Wednesday when I got home from work and didn’t recognize a single…

  • Glamorous and Swashbuckling Tomb Raider Unearths This Priceless Buried Treasure

    Historian Sherill Tippins, who’s becoming a regular contributor, excavated this little gem from composer Virgil Thomsons’ archives at Yale.  Though at the present time, due to the hostile take over we are more interested in rent receipts.  Readers who live in the hotel will recognize many of the characters from the good old days.  Even…

  • Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake Remember the Chelsea

         This week’s issue of NY Mag asks what led to the suicides of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake? The couple had been together almost 12 years in what the author, David Amsden describes as "… a radiant, obsessive love, a bond formed in no small part by their almost religious belief in the…

  • Vali Myers: A Memoir

         The one-of a kind Australian artist and frequent Hotel Chelsea resident, Vali Myers, was undeniably a legend in her own time.  Our deposed leader Stanely Bard, of course, has a soft spot for the free-spirited Vali. Speaking with Chelsea Now, Bard said, "Vali Myers was a very special person who had her own…

  • INSIDE: THE CHELSEA HOTEL

    Julia Calfee has lived and photographed in the Chelsea Hotel for four years.  "When I photographed at the Chelsea Hotel, I would be staying in a space or situation for hours.  Time would pass and my presence would become less and less visible.  Sometimes I would even disappear." "People are always asking me what it’s…

  • Holy Smokes, A Real Live Bohemian Sneaks In on BD!

    Its taken two months of close scrutiny but we finally spotted a guest who must have booked his room while Stanley was still in charge. I’m sure that many of you who live here have noticed the tall skinny guy dressed in hippy garb sitting in the lobby for the past couple of weeks.  Well,…

  • “Options within Realism” Features Three Works by Bernard Childs

      Childs was born in Brooklyn and began his life as an artist in Italy in 1951.  The earliest of his paintings that still exist are dated 1952, the year he moved to Paris. He was in the 1959 Documenta II, the same year the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam gave him his first museum show.…

  • Family Values: Creativity, Anti-Gentrification and Rockin’ Tee Shirts

    Joe, Casebeer &  Tosh booked their room back in April before the despicable hostile takeover of the hotel.  In other words, the reason they wanted to come to the hotel was for the Bard family and the Chelsea Hotel family, not for the 99 cent Internet room specials that BD is promoting to drive up…

  • Hawk Alfredson’s Surreal Mindscapes

    Chelsea Hotel artist Hawk Alfredson has a show up in the lobby of The Pit, an improv theater on West 29th Street.  Fans of improv comedy will appreciate Hawk’s surrealism, as it’s a form of improv in it’s own right.  Painting in a more or less realistic style, Hawk starts with the basic building blocks…