I MISS YOU ART.
TRIBUTES:
http://legends.typepad.com/living_with_legends_the_h/2008/07/remembering-art.html#more
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/07/arthur_weinstei.html
http://www.archive.org/details/IndigoToledoIndigosChelsea_0
Unauthorized obit:
ARTHUR WEINSTEIN who's clubs The Continental, The Jefferson, Hurrah, The World, and later his association with The Limelight and The Tunnel in New York City and who defined underground nightlife from Los Angeles to Ibiza died in St. Vincents Hospital in New York yesterday. He was sixty years old and lived in the Chelsea Hotel on twenty third street in New York.
Arthur and his wife Colleens collaborations with club owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager revolutionized the way nightlife was experienced in the 1980's and 90's taking club-goers through a euphoric and sometimes dizzying maze of sensory experiences from the time they would pass the velvet ropes and bouncers stares to the final breath of after hours dancing.
His use of extreme mood lighting and the creation of small intimate spaces around the dance floor or tucked away into the recesses of the clubs interior predated the VIP areas requisite in clubs today. These spaces invited a certain lifestyle and patrons know they could experience the privacy of home while listening to the greatest DJ's of the era.
Finding club ownership taxing and literally too high maintenance, Arthur worked as lighting designer for many of the best clubs in New York and elsewhere offering his services the biggest names in the business. After spending hundreds of thousands on complex lighting systems for their high end venues club owners would ask arthur to consult usually the night before an opening party. Arthur was known to walk around the club unplugging fixtures and unscrewing bulbs replacing them with his signature pinspot parcans. The overall effect was dark and moody because as he would say "come over ere...I got sometin for ya".
Turning to fine art in his later years Arthur began creating silkscreens of famous faces he would capture digitally and transfer to large plexiglass discs and canvasses. He had a one man show in New York in 2005.
Arthur is survived by his only daughter Dahlia and wife Colleen.
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