NO LONGER EMPTY begins at two storefronts at the Chelsea Hotel, the historical art heart of Manhattan. Artists such as Michael Bevilacqua, Alina and Jeff Bliumis and Diana Puntar will fill economy-ravaged spaces with installations while responding to our present dire financial straits and its effect on the urban landscape and national psyche. $ resident artists at the Hotel Chelsea will also be exhibiting.

The first edition of NO LONGER EMPTY offers a forum curated by Manon Slome and Asher Remy-Toledo for this artistic dialogue. The spaces are not gallery or museum locales and the resulting works and conversations are not defined by such conventional exhibition spaces. Indeed, NO LONGER EMPTY hopes to pioneer a new model of community art. The project also strives to stem any potential neighborhood decline that can result from unused and abandoned buildings by lavishing them with art.