Tuesday, October 18th at 6:30 pm
Augusten Burroughs reads from a collection of essays, Magical Thinking. One of the stories features a character, Mark, who checks into the Chelsea Hotel and kills himself.
Coliseum Books, 11 West 42nd St., NY NY
Thursday, October 20th, 6:00 p.m.
Tonight is the artists reception for Hawk Alfredson and the eight other artists who are part of the Rogue Works exhibit. Rogue Works closes October 21.
CB's 313 Gallery, 313 Bowery, NY NY
Thursday, October 20th, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. (Oct. 21 - Nov. 19)
Opening reception for Stella Waitzkin: A Retrospective including sculptures and works on paper from her 
studio at the Chelsea Hotel. Waitzkin began as an abstract expressionist. She studied painting with Hans Hofmann and life drawing with Willem de Kooning. In the 1960s and early 1970s, she expanded beyond painting to work first in sculpture, then performance art and film. Her early sculptures were made out of melted glass, but soon she discovered her signature medium, polyester resin.
After the sixties, her primary subject was the book. She cast old, leather-bound books as single objects and as elements of larger installations, including as free-standing shelves, small book cases, or entire “library” walls. Stella was living at the Hotel Chelsea at the time her death in 2003.
Her son, Fred Waitzkin, has written a book about the family, "The Last Marlin." Use Amazon's search inside of this book feature to read about Stella turning red in the face when Stanley asks for his rent money. Did Stanley Bard acquire the piece he donated to Rutgers University in exchange for rent? Click here for a better look inside of Stella's room at the Chelsea, which reminds me of the Shakespeare & Co. bookshop in Paris.
The Robert Steele Gallery, 511 East 25th Street, NY NY
Saturday, October 22nd, 7:00 - 11:00 p.m.
Hotel Chelsea Resident Susanne Bartsch is one of the co-chairs for Florent's big High Line Benefit at the Roxy.
The Roxy, 515 West 18th St., NY NY
Saturday, October 22nd, 1:00 p.m.
Former Hotel Chelsea residents Christo and Jean Claude will be on hand for the screening of their films: Valley Curtain (1974), Running Fence (1978), Islands (1986).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 5th Ave., NY NY
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