New Orleans-based photographer Stephen Hilger’s solo exhibition entitled Hotel California will open to the public on January 4, with a reception for the artist on January 11 at MUSE Center for Photography and the Moving Image in New York. Hotel California and the adjoining blog and Ambassador Archive project (in collaboration with Annie Shaw) charts the evolution of one of Los Angeles’ most eminent structures and its subsequent history: The Ambassador Hotel. 

MUSE Center for Photography and the Moving Image is located at 580 Eighth Avenue at 38th Street on the 7th floor. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12-6pm.

Images: Wilshire, Stephen Hilger; Carnival (The Ambassador Hotel), Stephen Hilger; The Ambassador Hotel, 1938, Western Publicity and Novelty Co., via Ambassador Archive