A tour of Chris Rubino’s studio in Brooklyn from Love Kills Demons, a twelve-part film portrait by Jim Helton. Chris is an Ace NYC artist — he was there right at the start making huge canvases for some rooms that still count among our favorites. He is a an artist with a sacred air about him — at once passionate and cynical about beauty, he is pretty beautiful himself. You can see more about him from the early days of our blog.

Parra flew in and painted a woman and her familiar on the walls of room 1201 at Ace Hotel New York. Then he kindly made the bed.

Dana Tanamachi created this hand-lettered chalkboard piece to christen The Boardroom at Ace Hotel New York for Fashion Week — Dana also lettered room 1021 last summer. The Boardroom is the site of a three-day tailoring atelier of Martin Greenfield Clothiers. Mr. Greenfield himself will be hosting fittings for bespoke suits and garments through Sunday, by appointment. Spirits, beer, coffee and comestibles from The Breslin, Heineken and Stumptown. Find out more and RSVP here.

Arkitip and Comex have conducted a study in color at Ace Hotel & Swim Club in a handful of guest rooms, each repainted with three-color combinations based on Comex trend books. They invited five journalists to stay for along weekend, playing musical rooms each night to experience the myriad emotions conjured through color.

We’re excited to debut our first ever photography-based room art in room 428 at Ace Hotel New York. The piece is by Sunny Shokrae, who wrestled with her inner village of oohs and aahs to bring us this exclusive, limited-edition, fully customized 2012 In / Out list. Now that you are informed, go forth into a new year.

IN: drug cartel
OUT: tulum resorts

IN: target shooting
OUT: russian baths

IN: rolling
OUT: tumbling 

IN: steak n shake
OUT: corner bistro

IN: javeling 
OUT: status updates

IN: singley farm
OUT: the hamptons 

IN: chips
OUT: pretzels

IN: disappearing
OUT: raging

Time lampse by Sam J. Macon and Mark P. Smith

Brooklyn-based artist Jess Rotter painted this Marfa, TX landscape on the walls of room 1122 (1/2/12!) at Ace Hotel New York. The world she’s painted is at once existentially jarring and comfortingly omniscient — as though it’s seen you before. Urban Outfitters made this video of Jess at Ace, and gives us a glimpse into the art she surrounds herself with when she’s not spending a marathon stretch of time with an overhead projector at our hotel.

You can also read an interview with Jess about the piece at Dossier Journal, where these photos are from.