Presented by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery and opening on October 1st, If These Walls Could Talk: Women of the Chelsea, by Tiffany Shlain is a new artwork and installation at the Hotel Chelsea that pays tribute to the female residents throughout its eventful history.

The real issue has to do with transparency. Artists who negotiate coverage behind closed doors, through strategic relationships or undisclosed payments, get the appearance of organic recognition, while artists who'd rather pay for a placement openly, or can't access the back channel at all, get treated as suspect for the same underlying transaction. If the industry's actual objection is to coverage being bought, the backchannel deal is the more serious violation of that princ

Over the years, Moriarty has undergone some of the most drastic reinventions of any literary villain, transforming from a briefly mentioned plot device into a pop-culture archetype of the criminal mastermind, setting the pop-culture standard for the intellectual bad guy that has survived to this day.