Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Art
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Jack’s Big Music Show kicks off Season 2 today on Noggin. Season two will feature music videos produced by SnapFilms, which is co-owned by Luke Joerger. So get in touch with your inner child and tune in to Noggin.
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Twenty-five motion pictures were recently added to the National Film Registry to be preserved for all times. One of the new additions was Harry Smith’s abstract animation, EARLY ABSTRACTIONS #1, 5, 7, 10 (1939-56). A total of 450 films have now been added to the registry. YOu can get a bit of a flavor of…
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Arthur Weinstein is a photographer and artist who has recently been producing some impressive large silk screens of cultural icons such as Roy Cohn and George Gershwin. If you ever visit the Chelsea, you simply must see his large scale mobile on the tenth floor. Night time is best when it’s lit up by spotlights. …
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In the early 70s, PBS broadcast the first reality series, An American Family. It told the story of the William C. Loud family from Santa Barbara, California. Their eldest son Lance, who lived at the Chelsea Hotel and hung out with Warhol "superstar" Holly Woodlawn, and was an openly and unapologetically gay young man. This…
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Better late than never. You’ve finally finished all of that shopping. Relax and let BlairWear show you how to make a bow because decorating the package is the most important part of the gift giving ritual. Watch BlairWear’s Bow Making 101.
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Even though the Chelsea Hotel was good enough for Edie Sedgwick it wasn’t good enough to host the book launch party for "Edie: Girl on Fire". Instead, the party was held at the Gramercy Park Hotel, an "elegant and refined setting served as a modern day Max’s Kansas City…" Where is the modern day Edie…
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Delaware/Cree/French artist and elder Alec Montroy, passed away on Dec. 4, 2006. He was 88 years old. Alec was a figurative painter who worked in the European style of Pointillism painters. He loved art and life and especially New York City. Montroy lived for many years at the Chelsea Hotel. In an interview published in…
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Once again, a reader from Tennessee comes through with a holiday card for us. She writes, "Aha I found your card today. Is it iconography of the birth of a god? Or is it entertainment? It’s yard work for sure."
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If you see Storme wish her Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday. She turns 87 today.Here’s a small part of Storme’s story: “I chopped off my hair, put on men’s clothes, and joined the Jewel Box Review!” The Jewel Box Review was a multi-racial drag revue that toured the country in the fifties, sixties and seventies. …
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Over the weekend we went around photographing all the festive holiday decorations spread throughout the Hotel Chelsea. In keeping with this year’s theme of the Sawed-Off Holidays, many people went for the minimalist look, taking care not to overshadow the small Christmas tree in the lobby. And in fact the vast majority of our residents…
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