Random memory unlocked: I stayed in the Hotel Chelsea in 2010 for an art school trip & climbed inside the walls of the stairwell because someone left a hatch open. There were a bunch of ladders and stuff and we found porn at the bottom. I left a letter inside. Probably demolished in the renovations
Melo
I stayed at the historic Hotel Chelsea with Hideo Kojima and Nicolas Winding Refn, haunted by the artists who burned and wrecked their spirits there. Interviews include Hunter Schafer, Sophie Thatcher. No gen AI was used in the exhibit despite the trailer.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
An art installation with Hideo Kojima and Nicolas Winding Refn evokes the landmark’s very different era of grime and glamour.
