New York Gallery Week

Nate Lowman's "Snowman" at Andera Rosen Gallery for NYGW

This past weekend saw the successful launch of the pilot New York Gallery Week, a new initiative organized collectively by 50 Manhattan-based contemporary art galleries and 7 not-for-profits – spanning Chelsea, SoHo, the Lower East Side/Bowery, the Upper East Side, and 57th Street. NYGW is intended to be be an annual event offering exhibitions, lectures, panel discussions, film screenings, performances and artist receptions. The challenge of economic and patronage lows encouraged gallery owner, Casey Kaplan, to develop the event to reinvigorate the NY art scene as well as “deliver the message that there’s great art out there and it’s free.”  Possibly San Francisco’s art community will take note.