[You never know when a cliched photo of the Max Fish toilet will come in handy]
Max Fish closes for good on the Lower East Side on Aug. 1, according to Gallerist.
And the Ludlow Street fixture, which is moving to Williamsburg, signed off with their final exhibition — titled "End of Days," which Ava Rollins and Yolande Whitcomb curated. (The show, featuring work by Craig Wetherby, Ricky Powell and FAILE, is only up through tonight.)
X Games at ESPN paid tribute to the Max Fish on Monday... noting how the bar was big with the skate crowd through the years...
Max Fish will all be leaving a neighborhood that now resembles the chaos of New Orleans' Bourbon Street on the weekends more than the downtown cool with which it once was associated.
Previously on EV Grieve:
The art evolution of Ulli Rimkus and Max Fish
From Tin Pan Alley to Max Fish
[Updated] Max Fish is apparently moving to Brooklyn; eyeing August close date
I await the day their bathroom is recreated in the Met Museum as part of some show memorializing the late, great LES.
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