Secondary Occupants / Collected & Observed Opens

Thanks to everybody who came to the opening on Saturday. The show is up until May 28th so there is plenty of time to get to see it. The opening went well, people seemed engaged and interested. The weather was great, in the 70s during the day and the mid 60s at night.

photos by Colette

Colette and Me

We stayed at the Chelsea Hotel on Friday and Saturday night. It is the cheapest place in town if you are willing to share a bathroom (and we are) with several strangers. And if it is loud or dirty, it's still the Chelsea, so you can imagine Leonard Cohen or Dylan Thomas being in the same situation and that makes it seem kinda cool. The rows of tents and people below me in the picture above are comedians hoping to be contestants NBC's Last Comic Standing, that picture was taken on Saturday afternoon the auditions didn't start until the next day.

Opening Night / Chelsea Hotel

The opening went well, there was a good turn out (a lot of B-lo expats), and the response to the work seemed pretty positive (of course people lie to your face when you are the artist, so who knows). Colette took the above pictures.

We have been staying at the Chelsea Hotel for the last two days in a small room with a shared bathroom, it's one of the cheapest rooms I could find in Manhattan. Fortunately the incredible history of the hotel turns the rundown condition of the room from minus into a plus. My only internet access has been in the lobby, so I have not had a chance to post as much as I would like. When I get home I have a bunch of things I want to write about the shows I have seen while in the city.

View from our window at the Chelsea Hotel