Renwick Gallery, named for the small street near the West Side Highway where it’s located, just above Canal Street, will be moving to a new space on the Lower East Side at 44 Hester Street. Renovations on the space will begin next week. The gallery plans to reopen in mid-November with a new name–Leslie Fritz, after the owner–roughly on schedule with the planned solo show of work by Caitlin Keogh. Read More
The Upper East Side continues to sprout new galleries. This spring, Dominique Lévy, formerly a partner in the gallery L&M Arts on East 78th Street, will open a new, three-floor gallery, called Dominique Lévy, at 909 Madison Avenue, on the southeast corner of East 73rd Street. Joining her in the 9,000-square-foot former bank building will be the Paris-based dealer Emmanuel Perrotin, who is opening a New York branch. Read More
The Lower East Side gallery DCKT Contemporary will be moving into dealer Nicelle Beauchene’s space on Orchard Street when she moves her gallery to Broome Street. Read More
Back in June, The New York Observer broke the news that Chelsea and Lower East Side gallery Lehmann Maupin was on the hunt for real estate in Hong Kong. Now they have found it. Read More
Los Angeles gallery Blum & Poe will open a space in Tokyo “in the coming months,” according to the Art Newspaper. This will be the gallery’s first international branch. Read More
So carved in stone are New York’s gallery hours—10 a.m. to 6 p.m.—that one gallery actually named itself after them. Casey Kaplan 10–6 is now simply Casey Kaplan, but for the most part those hours have persisted, with some exceptions, like those Lower East Siders who can’t bother to arrive before noon. These days, however, there are so many shows around town that it’s become difficult for gallery-goers to fit them all in during business hours. Mercifully, some have blasted through the iron walls of 10 to 6, and a few have gone so far beyond them that one could take a 24-hour tour of the city’s art scene. Let’s do it. Read More
This October, Bushwick’s The Library is on Fire Headquarters will exhibit the artwork of Guided by Voices frontman Robert Pollard and the band’s singer/guitarist Tobin Sprout. The exhibition is called The Big Hat & Toy Show and will be an “interactive conceptual installation showcasing the world of Pollard, Sprout, and Guided by Voices,” whatever that means. Read More
In recent months a breathtaking number of established New York galleries have announced that they plan to move or grow. A space race is on. Throughout Manhattan dealers are expanding the size of their galleries. Some are opening up a second shop, securing a spot in a new neighborhood, or even a new country. (Larry Gagosian is opening his 12th space, in Paris.) No less than three blue-chip players have sizable London galleries on tap for this fall. It’s wild out there in the art world. Read More
Nicelle Beauchene Gallery and Jack Hanley Gallery are moving to 327 Broome Street, sharing a joint space in a historic two-floor building on the same Lower East Side stretch that will be the new home of Canada gallery, as well as Marlborough Chelsea’s downtown outpost. Read More
Starting Sept. 16, Soho’s Team Gallery, which represents artists like Cory Arcangel, Alex Bag and Ryan McGinley, will be open on Sundays, the day when Team’s neighbors to the east–the ever-growing cluster of galleries in the Lower East Side–usually hold their exhibition openings and prop open their doors to visitors. Read More
