Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Art
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Marianne Faithfull and Patti Smith both turn 59 today. In a recent interview in the New York Post, Patti Smith talks about the 30th anniversary of "Horses.""I look at ‘Horses’ as being able to express things important to me when I lived at the Chelsea Hotel with my friend Robert Mapplethorpe," says Smith, referring the…
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Pamela Bannos has been exhibiting her photographic works since the early 1980s. She has worked with nearly every photographic process and format from 19th century gum prints to web-based digital works. What do you do?I’m a photographer from Chicago who shows my work in New York City. I teach in the art department at a…
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Over at Twenty-Third and Seventh blog they have new time waster, "Psychopath or Resident." They present a photograph of an indivdual and ask you to guess if it is a resident or a random psychopath. Check it out.
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The podcasters have been quiet for a while, but that doesn’t mean they have gone away. They have simply moved on to bigger and better things. Earlier this week, they launched a series of Chelsea Hotel Video Podcasts. And, we hear that they have exciting plans in store for the future. So, check em’out and…
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If someone on your gift list has requested a crocheted ladder covered with prostate cancer you need to talk to Agata Oleksiak. Earlier this year, Oleksiak’s work was part of the "Back to Bohemia" exhibit which was on display in the Hotel Chelsea’s Grand Ballroom. What do you do?I make art. I crochet and watch…
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Chelsea Hotel resident and painter David Remfry‘s work is the subject of an exhibit currently underway at Ferens Art Gallery in Hull. You can get a better view of the paintings shown in the photo if you click on the image. The woman wearing the top hat is our esteemed telephone operator of many years,…
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Our man in Australia has agreed to provide us with some interesting factoids once in a while. He’s an expert on the Warhol era and has an extensive library of resources about Warhol and various Hotel Chelsea artists. Plus, he has bigger plans in store for the blog in the coming year. Carrie Bedsore’s Curious…
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Because I missed part of the story (and because we’re for Peace) I’m reposting the Devendra Banhard video "Heard Somebody Say." I just learned that the video was produced by a talented Chelsea Hotel resident. Click here to play the video
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Earlier this week, singer/songwriter Devendra Banhard released his new single, "Heard Somebody Say." The song is a touching war protest anthem. The video was filmed at Coney Island and in the Chelsea Hotel.Click here to play the video
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On November 10, the Grand Ballroom of the Chelsea Hotel was a setting reminiscent of The Factory. Thirty-nine new mattresses were artfully stacked around the room and covered with tattered shawls and afghans. The event curator, Dean, clad in a leather skirt, drug bottles of beer from the bar to the beds. On a stage…
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