Category: Hotel Chelsea
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I had originally planned to give "Room 100" key chains to everyone on my gift list, but the Chelsea Hotel gift shop was sold out. E-bay to the rescue. Bids are starting at $9.99 for a bar of Hotel Chelsea soap in very good condition in the original package from the 1960s. (I bet there…
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The Hotel Chelsea lobby is decorated for the holidays with a beautiful christmas tree and a lovely menorah. However, we don’t have pictures of either to show you. Instead we have a crappy picture of one of the tree ornaments. The ornament is a fake black and white Polaroid of Bob Dylan when he wore…
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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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Only a few days left to vote. The last time I checked, we were in third place in the World’s Best Urban Arts Blog category. The two blogs leading the voting are Slavs of New York and We Make Money Not Art.
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The Villager has a snappy profile of Chelsea Hotel resident Norman Gosney and his famous Big Night Out. Head to Scenic located in the East Village the last Thursday of each month to catch acts such as: There is Bunny Love who likes all things wet — she bathes with soapy water onstage wearing two…
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There are a lot of musicians living at the Chelsea, good as well as bad. They practice all the time, day and night, and most any type of music is tolerated, from jazz, to classical, to rock and roll. Even so, there are limits. One holiday season, the person living directly above me acquired…
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Around the corner from the Chelsea on Seventh Avenue, a homeless man, apparently drunk, was mediating a dispute between two of his similarly situated buddies: “Nah, you know the story of Moby Dick, don’t you? They didn’t call him that because he bit his dick off! He bit his leg off! That’s why…
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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…
