Can You Name the Celebrities in Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis’ New Portrait Series?

Top Row, (l-r): Claes Oldenburg, Edie Sedgwick, Jimmy Hendrix, Leonard Cohen. Bottom Row, (l-r): Quentin Crisp, Viva (Warhol superstar), Patti Smith, Alice Cooper.
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Yet another emerging artist got some help from the Chelsea Hotel on Monday night, though the circumstances might have left the hotel's previous, bohemian residents scratching their heads. For starters, the building is closed for renovations, and has been since 2011. The exhibition took place in the Hotel Chelsea Storefront Gallery on the ground floor.

And then there was the artist in question: Her Serene Highness, Gloria, the Dowager Princess of Thurn and Taxis, whose primary residence is a 500-room palace in Regensburg, Germany, and is bohemian only in the sense that her family used to own large swaths of Bohemia.