George Lindemann Journal by George Lindemann "Boldly Go" @nytimes by Roberta Smith
Rob Fischer’s “Good Weather (Glass House)” is at the Derek Eller Gallery in Chelsea. Credit Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
ACCORDING to the thermometer as well as the calendar, it’s finally spring, a great time for that urban sport known as gallery-hopping. The options in New York City have never been richer — in some neighborhoods, taking in the galleries requires Olympic stamina.
New York is often described as the former center of the art world, the torch having been passed to Berlin, London, Los Angeles or even New Delhi. Globalism notwithstanding, New York remains the center of the gallery world, and galleries are the bedrock of any truly thriving art scene.
No other city can match its sheer numbers, and such quantity creates its own strange, implicitly democratic form of quality. New York is still the place where the greatest range of art is selected for public view by the greatest number of people — namely art dealers, who operate independent of institutions. Month after month, they mount shows of artists or artworks they believe in for our consideration, and we don’t have to buy anything or pay admission (though occasionally we have to climb on something, after removing our shoes).
A few years ago, it seemed that Chelsea was the Cookie Monster devouring other gallery neighborhoods. But as our five selective reports demonstrate, New York has thriving scenes on the Lower East Side and the Upper East Side. The SoHo scene, once inundated by retail, is showing signs of bouncing back, and putting out new shoots in eastern TriBeCa. Bushwick is blooming in Brooklyn, and in the newly named Donut District an art scene is taking root virtually beneath the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.
Our intrepid art critics went and looked. Now it’s your turn.
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