First Thursday of the Year 2009
New Year’s Day was Thursday, January 1st and no good art was going to happen then as thoughts waxed and hangovers waned. Fast forward to the next Thursday (Jan. 8th) and you have yourself a major event. The art world came out in droves following the holidays, which stretched at least as far back as late November thanks to Art Basel Miami Beach.
Whomever is still standing now that the market’s tanked and the demand for art continues to shrink took to putting on their best face and plowed right back into the season, opening a range of names — small, big, and bigger — but generally proven draws. Everyone was out that night — even Bjork, Matthew Barney and Julian Schnabel, who were spotted at Mary Boone for Imi Knoebel’s opening — but generally I managed to find a friend or three at each crowded affair, if not in the cold, crowded streets.
[Images after the jump…]
Nick Cave “Recent Soundsuits” at Jack Shainman Gallery
Adriana Farmiga at Newman Popiashvili Gallery
“Perception as Object” at Monya Rowe Gallery
Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky) “North/South” at Robert Miller Gallery
Teun Hocks at PPOW Gallery
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