Chelsea gallery circuit

Marcus Feld

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Look, I appraise real estate for a living, which means I spend an unreasonable amount of time staring at square footage and asking myself what a building is actually for. Galleries are the one commercial use that still makes sense to me emotionally, if not on a cap rate basis. Here's the thing about gallery hopping in Chelsea on a Saturday: everyone thinks it's about the art, and sure, fine, it's partly about the art, but it's mostly about having somewhere free, quiet, and air conditioned to go before the Negroni starts calling your name around 4pm. This is the rotation I actually keep, not the one I tell people at parties.

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Chelsea gallery circuit — 6 items
Name	Address	City	Why
1Gagosian Gallery	555 West 24th Street	New York	Big, loud, occasionally absurd in scale, like someone built a museum wing out of spite. I still go every time.
2Hauser & Wirth	542 West 22nd Street	New York	The bookstore alone could absorb an entire Saturday afternoon and has, on more than one occasion, absorbed mine.
3Pace Gallery	540 West 25th Street	New York	Eight stories of other people's taste, which sounds exhausting until you remember the elevator alone is worth the trip.
4The Drawing Center	35 Wooster Street	New York	Small, serious, dedicated to a medium everyone else treats as a warm-up act. I respect the stubbornness.
5Swiss Institute	38 St Marks Place	New York	Odd, a little restless, always showing someone you haven't heard of yet. Good for feeling behind on things.
6303 Gallery	555 West 21st Street	New York	Quietly one of the better programs in the neighborhood, which is precisely why nobody's lined up outside it.