Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Art
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Andy Warhol’s epic, "The Chelsea Girls," has been named one of the top 100 films of all times by the Radio Times Guide to Films 2007. "Andy Warhol’s underground film is to blame for reality television," according to the Guide. (Evening Standard) Earlier this week, to celebrate what would have been Thomas Wolfe’s 106th birthday,…
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It may be too late to score tickets, but we hear from a very reliable source that Chelsea’s own Nicky Nichols has a role in "The Holy Mountain," and also worked on the costumes. The film is being screened at the Walter Reade Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 7, at midnight, so whether you can make…
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According to Gothamist, the Paramount Hotel will be offering a special three-course menu for $5 in its Mezzanine Restaurant in exchange for actors’ headshots. You have to be an actor whose parts are five lines or less. The meal will be available on the 5th of every month and will run through the end of…
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Or Australia, or somewhere else.
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Amy Arbus (daughter of the legendary photographer Diane Arbus) opened her gallery show at the Cohen Amador Gallery in the Fuller Building on September 6. Her new book "On The Street 1980 – 1990" features photographs of New Yorkers who were in the Village Voice’s fashion section during that time period. Chelsea Hotel’s Susanne Bartsch…
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An alternate video for Moby’s new single with Debbie Harry, “New York, New York” starring celebutante extraordinaire Rev Jen Junior, directed by Saint Reverend Jen, who also shot and edited the film. According to Reverend Jen, to make the video extra special, they pretended that Jen Junior lives here at the Chelsea. We wish that…
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Norman Gosney’s new show, Guilty Pleasures, is quite simply an evening of good, clean—well maybe not so clean—All-American fun. An old time burlesque show, it apparently moves around from location to location, contributing to it’s air of secrecy and the illicit; the night we attended it was in an old factory…
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In disIntegration, Michele Zalopany’s realistic pastel paintings, some in color, some black and white, chronicle the birth and death of the American Dream—in parallel Black and White varieties–in her home town of Detroit, from it’s inception in the boom years of World War II, to it’s last gasp in the deadly riots of 1967. It…
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I can’t remember a time when there were more people in the Chelsea Hotel lobby, must’ve been more than a hundred. As we munched on sausage strips and potato balls courtesy of El Quijote, long time tenant Merle – remarked that Stanley should have theme parties for the residents and guests every week, since we…
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Filmmaker DeeDee Halleck sent us her memories of Shirley Clarke to post on the anniversary of Shirley Clarke’s death. I tried to meet DeeDee at the plaque unveiling so I could thank her in person, but there were so many people there I didn’t get a chance to say thanks. Shirley Clarke was my mentor. …
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