Sleeping Overnight Inside the Art Museum

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Christian Ajudua

SLEEP IN ART Clockwise from top left: "Asleep in the Cyclone" at the 21c Museum Hotel; Antony Gormley's suite at the Beaumont; "A House for Essex"; "Al's Grand Hotel" at Frieze New York.Credit Clockwise from top left: Ryan Kurtz/Courtesy of 21c Museum Hotel; Stephen White, London; Dave King/Channel 4 Television; "Al's Grand Hotel" (1971) with public fiction (2014)/Photography by Marco Scozzaro/Courtesy of Frieze.

Hotels dotted with paintings and prints are hardly rare, but taking a cue from “Al’s Grand Hotel” — Allen Ruppersberg’s bookable, seven-room installation, which popped up on Sunset Boulevard for six weeks in 1971 and was restaged at this year’s Frieze New York — more and more properties are blurring the lines between artwork and accommodation. The 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, Ky., recently commissioned Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe to create “Asleep in the Cyclone,” an immersive “architectural collage” that doubles as a 500-square-foot guest room. [link]