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  • All Tomorrow’s Parties

    Facing Other Ways: Herbert Gentry & African American Abstraction This exhibition will showcase prints, drawings and original paintings by Herbert Gentry (1919–2003), best known for his colorful figurative abstractions. The exhibit will also include biographical materials selected from the Herbert Gentry Papers as well as work from Gentry’s colleagues and admirers including Romare Bearden, Jacob…

  • Be Entertained And Support the Chelsea Hotel Artistic Community

    Wednesday, October 10, 7:00 p.m. ($30.00)Frequent Chelsea Hotel guest Country Joe McDonald takes to the stage to perform his tribute to Woody Guthrie. McDonald sings 13 of Guthrie’s best known songs.   Check out the video of McDonald performing one of his best known songs, "Vietnam Rag," back when he was known as Country Joe &…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties: June 11 – 17, 2007

    Tuesday, June 12, 11:00 – 6:00Daniel Reich Gallery is pleased to announce “Darjeeling,” an exhibition of artwork by artists Mike Smith and Jeffrey Tranchell. Both artists’ work reflects a navigation of process that preserves “the incidentals” along the way. “Darjeeling” is next in a lineage of informal exhibitions held at the Chelsea Hotel and sponsored…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties: June 4 – 10, 2007

    Monday, June 4, 6:15 p.m. Andy Warhol’s rarely screened film Chelsea Girls is getting a workout this week.  It’s being shown all week long at MoMA. (195 minutes)The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues NY, NY Tuesday, June 5, 8:00 pmFIAF (French Institute Alliance Française) will present Satie…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties: May 28 – June 3, 2007

    Wednesday, May 30, 11:00 – 6:00 p.m.Summer 2007 revisits the unprecedented explosion of contemporary art and popular culture brought about by the civil unrest and pervasive social change of the 1960s and early ’70s, when a new psychedelic aesthetic emerged in art, music, film, architecture, graphic design, and fashion. The exhibition includes paintings, photographs and…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties: May 21 – 27, 2007

    Tuesday, May 22, 8:30 Dan Bern will bring his blend of rock, blues, country and folk to Brooklyn. SouthPaw, 125 Fifth Ave. Park Slope, BrooklynWednesday, May 23,Painter Hawk Alfredson’s work is currently on display at The Pit. The paintings will be up for a couple of months so stop by and check them out.  The…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties: May 14-20, 2007

    Tuesday, May 15, For our readers in Australia, tune in to ABC’s "Foreign Correspondent," for Michael Maher’s report on the battle for the soul of the Chelsea neighborhood. The documentary explores changes in the neighborhood through the eyes of Dan Courtenay, Gerald Busby, Cindy Gallop, Stanley Bard, and us.  The documentary was sparked by Ed’s…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties: May 7 – 13, 2007

    Monday, May 7, 9:30a.m – 5:30 p.m.Rent Board Guidelines Public Meeting. The Rent Guidelines Board released information from landlord surveys that shows landlord costs for rent stabilized apartments have gone up 5.1% between April 2006 and April 2007. While the costs weren’t as steep as the 2005-2006 cost increase, the RGB isn’t guaranteeing lower rent…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties: April 30 – May 6, 2007

    Monday, April 30, 1:00 – 6:00 p.m.Since there’s not enough art hanging on the wall’s of the Chelsea Hotel you might want to venture down to Tribeca to check out the Toast art walk.  The studios of more than 100 artists are open to the public.  Yesterday we checked out Scotto Mycklebust‘s studio.  It was…

  • Merle Lister at the Spring Housing Forum

    Earlier this week Merle Lister participated in the Spring Housing Forum sponsored by the Chelsea Tenant Action Committee.  Merle is encouraging everyone who is interested in housing rights to attend a couple of upcoming rallies. You can read more about the Forum at www.blogchelsea.com One rally is on Wednesday, May 23 at Stuyvesant Town at…