Real Estate
Former Asia Song Society Building to Become Single-Family Residence
The building at 45 Canal Street, the former home of Maccarone gallery and, more recently, Asia Song Society, will become a single-family residence. Read More
Marvelli Gallery Is Moving
Marvelli Gallery, which has made its home in Chelsea for 10 years on West 26th Street, has announced that it’s moving. Where? It doesn’t yet know. Read More
Judd Foundation Will Open Artist’s New York Studio Next Spring
New York Photographer Ahae Buys Deserted French Hamlet
Petzel Plans 10,000-Square-Foot Space on West 18th Street
The Chelsea art gallery district continues to grow richer and denser along its edges. Friedrich Petzel Gallery announced today that it will open a 10,000-square-foot space in the fall, at 456-464 West 18th Street, just east of 10th Avenue, around the corner from Andrew Edlin and Alexander and Bonin galleries. Read More
Soho/Noho Denizens, Politicians Reject Artist-in-Residence Survey
Not surprisingly, many people living in Soho and Noho are not too happy about a real estate group’s plan to survey loft residents in the neighborhood to ensure that at least one person in each loft is an artist, as city law requires. Read More
Dasha Zhukova’s Garage Center Plans New Rem Koolhaus Digs
The Garage Center for Contemporary Art, the museum started by Dasha Zhukova in a former bus depot, announced that it has plans for a new home that will be designed by Rem Koolhaus’s firm Offices for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Gorky Park, a Soviet-era recreation ground. Read More
Real Estate Group Takes Aim at Soho/Noho Artist-in-Residence Law
If you reside in a SoHo or NoHo loft, some people may soon be knocking on your door hoping to ask some questions about your occupation. Various real-estate types have established a group called the SoHo/NoHo Action Committee aimed at determining whether the lofts in those neighborhoods, which are legally mandated to house an artist, do, in fact, comply with that rule, DNAinfo reports. The organization plans to hire surveyors (it’s aiming to raise $25,000) to determine that. Door-to-door knocking is one of the tactics on the table. Read More
Eleven Rivington Nabs Second L.E.S. Location
Art in America reports today that Lower East Side gallery Eleven Rivington will take over some extra space at 195 Chrystie Street at the end of the month, just around the corner from its current location. The new space measures 1,200 square feet and put the gallery just next door to Lehmann Maupin’s L.E.S. space. Read More
