My second exposure to the music of Philip Glass was through the Chelsea Hotel: Pianist Bruce Levingston (who lived in Sid and Nancy’s old room) hosted a celebration of his music way back in 2006. Ethan Hawke (another former Chelsea Hotel resident) and Michael Stipe recited selections from Glass’s and Allen Ginsburg’s Hydrogen Jukebox, and…

Sadly, we have learned of the passing of former Chelsea Hotel resident and artist Donald Baechler.  Only recently Baechler’s black and white flower painting was returned to the lobby of the Chelsea after having been removed in 2011. We saw Baechler’s work along with the work of several other Chelsea residents at the 2017 Museum…

The Chelsea Hotel community was saddened to learn of the passing of one of its own: artist, author, and poet George Chemeche, a resident of the hotel since 1971. Though we’d run into George a few times in the past year, he hadn’t had much to say—not that such was entirely unusual for him. We…

On Sunday, December 19 the friends of Bettina Grossman will host a gathering at the Chelsea Hotel, 222 West 23rd street to celebrate the life of Bettina. The memorial begins at 11:00am. It’s the perfect success story: an artist, dedicated to her vision, labors in obscurity for decades, undeterred by lack of critical and popular…