Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: History of Activism
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Dear blog readers, I am still collecting stories about Abbie Hoffman at the Chelsea Hotel, so if you have a story, or have any corrections to what follows, I'd appreciate hearing from you via the Comments to this post. — Sherill If it's true that certain buildings can communicate their character and something of their…
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The inimitable hotelier Stanley Bard provided a place where dozens of truely original and iconclastic artists of the Sixties could challenge the status quo. And in so doing, Stanley came closest in this period to fulfilling the ideals of the 19th Century utopian socialist Charles Fourier, whose philosophy inspired the hotel in the first place. Historian Sherill Tippins, author of the upcoming…
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Sickened by capitalist opposition to the W.P.A.'s Federal Arts Project, Jackson Pollock produced what was arguably his greatest masterpiece. Historian Sherill Tippins, author of the forthcoming book, DREAM PALACE, fills us in on the details: With the onset of World War II, the forces aligned against unfettered capitalism, dog-eat-dog individualism, and American imperialism–forces with which…
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Historian Sherill Tippins, author of the upcoming Dream Palace, a history of the Chelsea Hotel, continues her series on the lives and struggles of the Chelsea's great social activists with a portrait of painter and hotel resident John Sloan: In 1905, the painter John Sloan was sufficiently captivated by the look of the Chelsea cooperative…
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The Croly Family, David, Jane, and their son Herbert, crusaded for social justice and fought to extend the utiopian ideas of the Chelsea to the nation as a whole. Historian Sherill Tippins, author of the forthcoming Dream Palace, a history of the Chelsea hotel, fills us in on the details: In 1884, when the Chelsea…
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Continuing her series of articles on the history of social activism at the Chelsea Hotel, Sherrill Tippins, author of the upcoming Dream Palace, a history of the Chelsea, writes: William Dean Howells, former editor of Boston's prestigious Atlantic Monthly, stayed at the Chelsea as he was moving to New York in order to write for…
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Over the course of its long history, the Chelsea Hotel has been primarily associated with the arts. But the hotel also boasts a proud tradition of social activism. From Philip Hubert and William Dean Howells to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Abbie Hoffman and beyond, Chelsea Hotel residents have refused to knuckle under to the forces…
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