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Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel

by Sherill Tippins

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    Winner of the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing?Tippins tells riveting stories about the Chelsea?s artists, but she also captures a much grander, and more pressing, narrative: that of the ongoing battle between art and capitalism in the city.? ? The New YorkerSince its founding by a utopian-minded French architect in 1884, New York?s Chelsea Hotel has been a hotbed of artistic invention and inspiration. Cultural luminaries from Bob Dylan to Sid Vicious, Thomas Wolfe to Andy Warhol, Dylan Thomas to Dee Dee Ramone ? all made the Chelsea the largest and longest-lived artists? community in the world. Inside the Dream Palace tells the hotel?s story, from its earliest days as a cooperative community, through its pop art, rock-and-roll, and punk periods, to its present transformation under new ownership. By exploring what it takes to maintain a creative community and how artists have enhanced and informed New York City life, Tippins, author of the acclaimed February House,