Could the news get any worse today? Terry Schiavo dies. Gasoline and Home Heating Oil prices surge to record levels (did I call it? I called it.) And now, we find out that Diane Boisvert has closed her Vanderbilt Ave. gallery: “The gallery has closed its doors but it will remain online,” Diane says in a tersely worded statement on her website.
Diane opened the gallery in September 2002: “What charmed me most about the place was the storefront. It used to be an old antiques store, but I decided to use it as my studio and to open the doors to fellow artists and the public … I realized that this wonderful space had too much potential to keep it just to myself.”
She had dedicated the space to showcasing contemporary artists with “individual” and “intense” works: “People who move me and give me a punch in the heart, head and spirit.”
So is that storefront for rent then?
If so, that could be the site of your restaurant, Isa.
BTW, I tried your recipe for vegetarian matzoh ball soup, which I found online. Absolutely delicious!
Listen buddy, I don’t want any Ratner loving fascists eating my balls. Just kiddin’. Glad you likeded it!
We need to support our local galleries and small businesses! This is really shitty that a small art gallery can’t survive in a neighborhood filled with so many creative and cultured people. Until you own a business you can’t possibly fucking imagine the work, sweat, hours and dreams that go into it. Please, could you guys not gloat over it like vultures for a day or so? I’m sure you’re kidding but It hurts my feelings. I’m incredibly sorry Diane is leaving Vanderbilt. The avenue just got a little uglier.
Sorry you’re upset sje but no one was gloating.
I, too, apologize. I did not intend to gloat, it’s just that now the gallery is gone I thought it might be a good location for the restaurant that Isa has expressed interest in opening. I do not eat meat and would love to have a vegetarian restaurant in the neighborhood.
Sje, I was going to keep quiet about this, but I just can’t. I think it’s unfair of you to lament the loss of this art studio, while in our Ratner thread you called the nail salon that used to occupy Home Heating Oil “filthy” and when commenting about its departure had only to say that “you don’t miss it”. This is further proof that you don’t support small businesses per se, but only those that you deem worthy.
By the way, I am familiar with all of the hard work that goes into owning a small business, as my father is self-employed.
Uh, I never get my nails done, anywhere. You’re really trying way too hard.
I thought about this while I was falling asleep last night (because all I think about it daily heights). I think it was insensitive to immediately ask if it was for rent and I apologize. The thing is, I don’t like art galleries. I haven’t been to hers but I have passed it of course and I just made the assumption that it was like most other art galleries I have been to, that is: unaccesible and expensive. As far as supporting small businesses, I definitely do. I rarely leave the hood infact and spend most of my money here. I even go to the little hidden away baking store on Classon that never has anything I need, just because I want it to stay in business. My point isn’t to say that I’m great and I am keeping WAMA afloat, it is just to say I am not upset about this in particular because it didn’t mean anything to me. If something closes then perhaps it is not meeting the needs of the neighborhood. Case in point: The raw restaurant. I went there even though the food wasn’t great and they always seemed to be out of everything. When it closed I was upset but understood why. So, I am sorry that this place meant something to you and that it closed, I know that you love the neighborhood, and if this was a special place than I regret never having gone in, but that’s how I felt about it.
Well put, Isa.
Once again, sje, you run away. Why is it that every time I point out your double-standards you simply refuse to answer me? That’s something that people usually do when they lack a sound response.
Jack, can we just let it go, please? You have a good point and you made it. Thanks.
Do I have to seperate you two. I have a solution: Jack- you go to Red Lipstick and buy a present for me! Everybody wins!
Fair enough, Daily Heights, as long as that request extends to sje, as well. I just don’t think it’s fair that she can say things that offend me, but if I respond then suddenly I’m the bad guy.
Thanks.
Leave me alone, please. I’m not even remotely interested in getting together. Isa, YOU speak with Jack in person if you want to. My shop is my place of business, and I’m not entertaining pointless debates there.
Oh, I was just making a joke, sorry. My defusing internet fights with stupid jokes skills are weak.