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A gallery afternoon in Williamsburg

So what the hell has this guy to do with galleries in Williamsburg? He is carrying a bedstead... Well, he's an artist preparing his exhibition opening in one of the many Williamsburg galleries. The bedstead will be part of it.

Claudine, the Magnum In Motion Creative Director (see Claudine here) and me decided to leave the office and the computers behind this afternoon. We wanted to get out and change our environment looking at some galleries to get inspired.
Alright, first of all I have to say that I am generally not a big gallery visitor (apart from photo galleries) since I often can't do anything with modern art. Of course this is one of my prejudices. And of course I often see modern art (what the hell is modern art?) which I like and which I enjoy viewing. It depends on what I am able to see in those paintings, sculptures or whatever. But that's the same with photography. I don't like all sorts of photographies, I have my likings and dislikings there as well. I should probably overcome my biased attitude more often and get out to learn from what I see.

However. Before leaving the office we printed out a map of the Williamsburg Gallery Association and headed over to Brooklyn with the L train. We have been visiting a couple of galleries, some of them were quite nice, others haven't been so spectacular. We had a relaxing afternoon anyway and Williamsburg seems to be really nice! The bad thing about Williamsburg is that it got very hip in the last couple of years and the real estate prices are in enormous heights. Claudine and her boyfriend live in Chelsea at the moment and would like to move out to find a nicer place. When passing by one of those signs stating "Apartment For Rent" we just called the phone number of the agent. Five minutes later he was here and showed it to us. It was a rather nice two bedroom apartment, one living rom, a nice kitchen, a small bathroom and a backyard which would only be used by this apartment. And the rent for it is USD 3.300,-...

Posted by Martin Fuchs on July 15, 2005 11:03 PM