Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Art
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A brilliant idea. As far as I know, this is the first podcast from the hotel. I haven’t checked it out yet, but I intend to. Hopefully, I’ll have more info to post about the podcaster(s) later. Interviews and music from the Chelsea Hotel in New York City or here. As promised, here’s what the…
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Andy Warhol’s family home doesn’t have the cache of William Burrough’s home, which received a historic designation in Lawrence, Kansas last month. Warhol’s home is fourth on the Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh’s list of the "Top Ten Best Historic Preservation Opportunities in the Pittsburgh Area for 2005." Oakland Planning and Development Corporation (OPDC) recently…
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I’m guilty of neglecting the visual artists. Brett Whiteley. A very important Australian painter who lived at the Hotel in the early 70s. He seems to be a bit neglected in Chelsea history. A recent doco (documentary) shown here about his widow, Wendy, included Chelsea footage. Here is a link to the transcript of the…
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The Guardian applauds Patti Smith’s Meltdown festival which ended with: "…Smith’s extraordinary reading of Burroughs’s moving, retrospective introduction to Queer; she ends up on her knees, bellowing disjointed phrases, punishing the clarinet. Spaced-out, almost shamanistic intensity. Burroughs would have approved. And just what Meltdowns are meant for…" Sally Singer plays herself in Douglas Keeve’s new…
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