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 Yorker Since its founding by a utopian-minded French architect in 1884, New York\'s Chelsea Hotel has been a hotbed of artistic invention and inspiration.
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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 Yorker Since its founding by a utopian-minded French architect in 1884, New York\'s Chelsea Hotel has been a hotbed of artistic invention and inspiration
