The 21c Museum Hotels chain takes the concept of the art hotel to new heights by combining large contemporary art collections with overnight stays
Anyone who has stayed in a hotel knows that the art on the walls is almost uniformly terrible. Upon checking in, a guest will usually be confronted with insipid watercolour landscapes, blown-up shots of orange gerbera daisies on plastic canvasses, or that old favourite – a black and white photograph of three pebbles in a pile. But what if your hotel contained inspiring, modern pieces of art instead? And what if your hotel wasn’t really a hotel at all: rather, you were staying in an art gallery?
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The galleries have been a success and, unlike most US galleries, they are free for the public to visit
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