Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Art
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The Blog-Of-Horror continues to roll on. Check out Luke Joerger’s wildly popular music video for Gnarls Barkley — Who Cares?
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We’ve always suspected that tourists considered Hiroya’s mural a kind of message board or guest book for them to sign. Now we have proof! Here’s a picture of three brazen scofflaws cheerfully flaunting their disregard for fine art. What I can’t believe is that they were foolhardy enough to take a picture of themselves actually…
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Pianist Bruce Levingston, whose Lincoln Center concert many of you attended earlier this year, has been involved in a fascinating project, Paul Festa’s film, "Apparition of the Eternal Church." Bruce calls the film, which documents reactions to an organ score by French composer Olivier Messiaen, both touching and hilarious. Paul Festa’s new film "Apparition of…
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Michael Armstrong and his friends are definitely our kind of tourists. They were looking for an "only in New York" kind of place and understood that "old and crappy" is good! Michael says his stay at the Chelsea was one of the greatest experiences of his life. What brought you to the famed Chelsea Hotel?…
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If you walk through the lobby of the Chelsea Hotel, with it’s grand, museum-like quality, you may chance to encounter a living artist among the shades of yesteryear. In an air charged with the accomplishments of the giants of the past, perhap you will notice the tall, handsome Texan with the cowboy hat pulled down…
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An evening of Guilty Pleasures is not complete without the charming Miss Amelia’s rendition of Dracula! Courtesy of youtube.com and Tim Sullivan
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Even if you get a tattoo of the Chelsea, you still won’t have Artie Nash beat. He has two! Be sure to read page two of Artie’s interview or you’ll miss some exciting stuff like his encounter with the Mafia at Mamma Mia!, how he and Arthur Weinstein witnessed a gang riot and his…
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Double Exposure recently interviewed the Chelsea’s own Lothar Troeller. Lothar got his first camera at age seven and never looked back. He met his wife Linda in Salzberg where she was teaching. Linda asked her students if they wanted to participate in her new project, “Erotic Lives of Men” and Lothar…
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On Monday we went to see the Chelsea Hotel’s own favorite composer Gerald Busby read as part of the Serial Underground series at the Cornelia Street Café. As always it was a relaxed evening of fine avant garde music and slightly quirky good company. Composer’s Collaborative founder Jed Distler got the…
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