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  • Daniel Reich — We Have A Room For You

    Daniel Reich is the man responsible for turning the Hotel Chelsea’s Grand Ballroom into an artists salon.  Each week, Daniel and curator Dean Daderko, play host to some of the city’s edgiest art events.  And, best of all, the events are free. What Do You Do?I have a young gallery on Twenty-Third Street between 10th…

  • The New Hotel Chelsea: Too Expensive for Pornographers

    Bob Coulter’s earlier book, “Crazy Babe,” featured photographs taken at the Hotel Chelsea, but unfortunately we’re now too upscale (it’s the new management), so he shot his latest book, “Bad Girls Hotel,” at the Carlton Arms.  I have to confess that I have something in common with Coulter.  In the late1980’s, I also thought that…

  • Mad Man Serenades As Lovers Entwine

    As soon as I read blogger Theresa Duncan’s clever “Generation Xorcism: Baby Boomer Ghostbusting at the Chelsea Hotel,” I knew she understood the "morphic resonance" of the Chelsea. What do you do? I am a writer and filmmaker. I made a bunch of video games and was called "the first video game auteur." The first…

  • Portraits from Eternal Bohemia

    Artist Elizabeth Peyton held her first major solo exhibit here at the Hotel Chelsea in 1993 (Room 828).   She has just published a book of paintings, "Elizabeth Peyton Paintings." A review of the book in the recent issue of Publishers Weekly notes, "…Her portraits—whether of Edwardian poet Rupert Brooke, Prince Harry or her friends—seem…

  • The Other Hawk Talks

    Hawk Alfredson’s paintings grace the hallways and stair well of the Hotel Chelsea.  He used to be the Chelsea’s "other Hawk," but now he’s the "only Hawk left."  And he’s ready to talk. I’m not really a man of words but a man of paint.  I was born in Sweden & most swedes doen’t talk…

  • Arman – 11/17/28 – 10/22/05

    Former Hotel Chelsea resident and pioneer of "New Realism," Armand Pierre Fernandez died Saturday.  (Source: The Daily Telegraph, Oct. 24, 2005) View selected works. NYTimes obituary. ARMAN, the French-born American painter and sculptor who died in New York on Saturday aged 76, was closely associated with the New Realist and Pop Art movements, and made…

  • The Guy Who Paints In The Lobby

    Here at the Hotel Chelsea the walls of the lobby are lined with art work by Larry Rivers and Philip Taft and many more.  In keeping with the Chelsea’s spirit of unbridled creativity David Combs can be found at his easel in the in the lobby almost anytime.  Stop by and introduce yourself and let…

  • Top 40 Magazine Covers

    The American Society of Magazine Editors recently announced the top 40 magazine covers of the past  40 years.  Coming in at number 24 was an Interview cover designed by former Hotel Chelsea resident Richard Bernstein. Richard died at the Chelsea on October 18, 2002. These links take you to more of Richard’s work.Warhol’s favorite coversThe…

  • Chelsea Bird Flu Hotel – Podcast #4

    The podcasters continue on their quest to bring back the dead!  Guest host G Spot Tornado trys to bring back the ghost of Angela Carter.  Richard Brautigan makes a guest appearance along with very special guests — Dylan Thomas Haters. Down with that plaque on the front of the building! Dedicated to the Memory of…

  • Rita Barros – Saved by New York’s Bravest

    Rita Barros must have landed at the Chelsea at a very young age because she has been here 21 years!  If you haven’t done so yet check out her book Fifteen Years: Chelsea Hotel.  You can see more of her work at http://www.ritabarros.com/Photo: Rita at home on the 10th floor.What do you do?I am a…