Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Art
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On Christmas Eve in the Chelsea Hotel, social and political activist Abbie Hoffman prepares homemade gefilte fish. He recounts the story of an awkward dinner hosted by Dr. Benjamin Spock to which Hoffman brought gefilte fish. The filmmaker initiated the idea to tape Hoffman for posterity in anticipation that he might disappear for evading drug…
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Here’s something for your Christmas list: a book of sketches made on hotel stationery. It’s going to be tough to find since it’s available only in limited editions. Bill Wilson, whose mother May was an artist and lived at the Chelsea back in the seventies, was kind enough to send this along. The book is…
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Who killed Edie Sedgwick? Enough of this already, help solve the mystery so that "Factory Girl" can either be released or be canned forever. Vote now and vote often!
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The Chelsea’s own Rita Barros has a show of her photographs currently running at the 80 Washington Square East Galleries. Though it’s a group show, Rita has a whole room to herself and 17 of her photos are up (and it’s the front room too; that should give you a hint…
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Who can possibly keep up with the twists and turns of the much ballyhooed Factory Girl. First, Sienna Miller was being hyped as an Oscar contender for her role as Edie Sedgwick. A week later, she was being called back to reshoot several scenes. Finally, a trailer has been released. The goal is to release…
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Last week, with a documentary film crew in tow (It was a shoot for New York Streets, a documentary that will be aired on Dec. 10th on channel NHK BS1 in Japan (and a small subscribed Japanese cable channel here). Debbie and I went to visit the painter Robert Lambert in…
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Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind "M-A-S-H," "Nashville" and "The Player" who made a career out of bucking Hollywood management and story conventions, died at a Los Angeles Hospital, his production company said Tuesday. He was 81. (AP) Altman had many connections to the Chelsea Hotel and its residents. We had the pleasure…
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As part of our ongoing fascination with dead celebrities who have a connection to the Chelsea Hotel here’s the list of top earning dead celebrities as published by Forbes.com. The 13 icons on the sixth annual Top-Earning Dead Celebrities list collectively earned $247 million in the last 12 months. Andy Warhol is number six on…
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Last Thursday we were lucky enough to catch the New York premiere of Paul Festa’s fascinating film, Apparition of the Eternal Church at St. Bartholomew’s on Fifth Ave. As the brochure for the event states: “In this documentary Festa interviews over thirty artists listening and reacting to Messiaen’s rarely heard but…
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