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So many galleries host First Thursdays with Two-Buck Chuck and shutter their doors at the stroke of 9. But Vermillion, Capitol Hill's gallery/pub, encourages arts appreciation during each of its operating hours, and offers reasonably priced wine, beer, specialty drinks, and cafe fare to enjoy along with the exhibits. Bringing art to the public v...

More than 25 years ago, Lisa Sette opened the doors of her contemporary art gallery in Scottsdale. She had just finished studying art history and photography at ASU and says she wanted to find a way to be surrounded by art while providing a space and service for artists to showcase their work. Today, she represents 36 artists from around the cou...

Nearly three years later, Arturo Palacios's ballsy decision continues to pay off. In early 2010, the gallerist relocated Art Palace from Austin to a ground-floor space of Midtown's Isabella Court. Today, the gallery that represents some of Houston's best contemporary artists like Seth Alverson and Elaine Bradford also presents repeat-visit-worth...

Offbeat yet steadfast, this engaging and inventive gallery near the intersection of Gravois and Jefferson avenues never fails to surprise. Walk in one month and see a collection of what look like turn-of-the-century photographs but are actually contemporary shots created from handmade pinhole cameras (Pinholio); next month discover a labyrinth o...

Cooperation between galleries is almost unheard of. In a crap economy, that other white-walled fucker is competition, its grubby little fingers picking your pocket of limited arts dollars. Magoski Arts Colony provides a refreshing exception to that rule. The vast warehouse space has Violet Hour, Hibbleton, Bookmachine, Pas, Coco Gallery, and a h...

Open for just over a year, the Aviary has become a shining star in a clusterfuck of art galleries in Jamaica Plain. Currently, they are featuring all the artists that made such a tight little venue so expansive over the past 365 days. And talk about madness — it was just announced that the open space is readying a digital photo lab for community...

When the MFA has an Alex Katz retro-spective, this Newbury Street gallery has the clout to run its own Katz portraiture show at the same time. Bold, courageous, and experimental, Krakow has brought Boston the finest contemporary works in every medium since 1964. Mixed in with the big names (Sol LeWitt, Chuck Close, and Tara Donovan) are exciting...

Founded in 1932 to provide a place for young Detroit artists to show and sell their work, the Detroit Artists Market (DAM) is one of the region's premier nonprofit contemporary art galleries. DAM continues to show and sell works by area artists through exhibitions, a sales gallery, and special events. DAM serves as a resource to all who seek to ...

For 30-plus years, Leach has served as Portland’s go-to importer of cutting-edge visual art and sculpture, and a chief exporter of our creative scene. In two small, white-walled rooms, this Pearl District institution manages to provoke both aesthetic curiosity—by representing an array of the region’s best artists—and commercial success.

Spaces has been supporting Cleveland's young and experimental artists for almost 35 years now, featuring everything from room-hogging sculptures to field recordings assembled into sound collages. Its support for up-and-coming artists over the years has inspired hundreds of art students to dismiss their notions of what "art" should look like and ...

As the economy continues to flounder, many Twin Cities art galleries struggle along with it. Fortunately, that is not the case with Rosalux Gallery, a space that hit its 10-year anniversary in 2012. Over the years, Minnesota's longest-running collective art gallery has hosted an impressive variety of exhibitions featuring work by both up-and-com...

Fact: No Locust Projects, no Wynwood Arts District. OK, OK, it might be tough to prove that hypothetical. But when Locust was founded in 1998, it became the first artist-run space in the area and quickly began drawing crowds seeking an alternative to stale local gallery scenes. Since then, Locust has been an alt-haven where artists have been abl...

Give a community of artists free range over a 2,400-square-foot exhibition space split into three levels, housed within the live/work loft facility where they also live, and you're bound to end up with an abundant stream of some really great art. That's what ArtSpace must have had in mind when it created the Sailboat Bend Artist Lofts, where dow...