Painting the Town Pink: A Tribute to New York's Chelsea Hotel
source: http://www.propeller.com/story/2007/06/30/painting-the-town-pink-a-composition-for-the-chels...
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The Chelsea Hotel on West 23d Street in Manhattan has long been known for its storied past as an elegantly shabby Victorian-Gothic hotel, which is now registered as a national historic landmark. Long a mecca for bohemian artists and eccentrics, one resident once fondly described the hotel’s surreal atmosphere as ”a cross between the Plaza Hotel and the Port Authority Bus Terminal.” The Chelsea has a long history of serving as a sanctuary for the the avant-garde.
Through the years, those who lived at the Chelsea have included Jack Kerouac, Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Tennessee Williams, Edith Piaf, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Leonard Cohen, Willem de Kooning, Jane Fonda, Janis Joplin, Milos Forman, Jimi Hendrix, Dennis Hopper, Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith, Vladimir Nabokov and Wes Klein. Dylan Thomas drank 18 straight whiskies there...sadly, his very last. Arthur C. Clarke wrote "2001: A Space Odyssey" while living there.
After Andy Warhol’s film "Chelsea Girls" was released upon the world, the hotel’s reputation became the stuff of urban mythology, attracting artists from all over the world. Edie Sedgewick, Andy Warhol’s patroness and advisor, the Factory artists and other pop art figures were all there. Bob Dylan produced both a record and a son there. Sid Vicious stabbed his girlfriend in Room 100.
This very detailed article includes a number of wonderful photographs and a music video (Rufus Wainwright's "Chelsea Hotel#2"), as well as a remarkable photo-essay video (accompanied by Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side").
Through the years, those who lived at the Chelsea have included Jack Kerouac, Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Tennessee Williams, Edith Piaf, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Leonard Cohen, Willem de Kooning, Jane Fonda, Janis Joplin, Milos Forman, Jimi Hendrix, Dennis Hopper, Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith, Vladimir Nabokov and Wes Klein. Dylan Thomas drank 18 straight whiskies there...sadly, his very last. Arthur C. Clarke wrote "2001: A Space Odyssey" while living there.
After Andy Warhol’s film "Chelsea Girls" was released upon the world, the hotel’s reputation became the stuff of urban mythology, attracting artists from all over the world. Edie Sedgewick, Andy Warhol’s patroness and advisor, the Factory artists and other pop art figures were all there. Bob Dylan produced both a record and a son there. Sid Vicious stabbed his girlfriend in Room 100.
This very detailed article includes a number of wonderful photographs and a music video (Rufus Wainwright's "Chelsea Hotel#2"), as well as a remarkable photo-essay video (accompanied by Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side").
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dfillingham
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Thanks for making this know. It needs a little work I hear, but Rufus is the man to get things done. Boston loves him, of course, but he is out there and performing all over the place.
I hope it lasts for a long time more, and that the prices stay low so artists and poor folk can have a great place to meet in NYC.
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