Night Market is a place for artists to meet in Tompkins Square Park on Friday evenings

Artist-proprietor Lori Der Hagopian, who operated the matchbox-sized gallery The Stand on Avenue C and Seventh Street, is launching a new project. 

Starting tonight at 6, she's presenting Night Market in Tompkins Square Park. She's inviting artists to bring their materials (as well as a blanket and flashlight) and meet at Tompkins Square Park — the entrance on Avenue A at St. Mark's Place. 

Weather permitting, she plans to host these gatherings tonight through Dec. 17... and start them back up again in the spring. 

The Stand (2012-2019) was a unique venture, a pop-up gallery and performance space featuring work by mostly unknown artists. You never knew exactly what you'd find there on a given weekend night.

That unique pop-up gallery space on 7th and C is now home to a palm reader

[Photo from 2012]

For several years, starting in 2012, the shed/storage space outside Wholesome Foods on Seventh Street and Avenue C was home to the Stand, a wholly unique pop-up gallery and performance space.

The Stand featured work by street, homeless and unknown artists. You never knew exactly what you'd find there on a given weekend night. It lasted until October 2017. The space was a holiday market during the 2018 Christmas season, featuring the work of local vendors and offering entertainment such as a shakuhachi zen flute performance during the opening reception.

After that, we hadn't seen much, if any, activity here. Last fall, someone tagged the Bruce Lee mural on the gate.

Well, there's a new tenant now. The gate was open the other day, showing that the space is now home to a palm reader...

Question of the day: Where is Bruce?

[EVG photo from 2012]

Over on Seventh Street at Avenue C, someone tagged The Stand, the gallery space that featured Bruce Lee on the gate ... prompting a question...



Where is Bruce?



The Stand opened in 2012.

Take a Stand at this holiday market on 7th and C

The Stand, the small gallery space on the southwest corner of Seventh Street and Avenue C, is hosting a holiday market starting today (Black Friday!) at noon.

Here's info via the EVG inbox...

Join us for our East Village Stand Holiday Market Nov. 23 - Dec. 24 on the corner of Seventh Street and Avenue C.

Opening Reception & Performances: Friday, Nov. 23, 6-8 pm. A shakuhachi zen flute performance by Till Behler

Participating vendors at the East Village Stand Holiday Market include:

• Bottleworks, bottle lamps, pendant lights and glassware by Joe Harrigon

• One of a kind handmade picture frames by Anne Edris

• Taconic Trading Company spiced pepitas and Applewood smoked sea salt

• eulenspiegelchocolatelab cookies and chocolates

• Black Lives Matter holiday themed jewelry and ornaments by Carla Cubit

• Artwork by Baum Earth Elements

• Handmade natural products by Body Vanity

Find updates via Facebook. The Holiday Market is expected to be open from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday (not counting the 6-8 opening reception tonight...).

The New Stand coming to Patricia Field’s former storefront on the Bowery

The New Stand — a concept described as "If your favorite bodega and your favorite blog had a baby" — is opening a retail outlet at 306 Bowery, Patricia Field's former storefront.

The Real Deal, who first reported on this transaction, notes that the New Stand already has retail locations inside the Union Square subway station, at Brookfield Place and at the Turnstyle market at Columbus Circle. This will be the New Stand's largest space.

Wired had a feature on the New Stand from November 2015:

The New Stand is an underground newsstand, updated for modern commuters. We’re standing in The New Stand in Union Square, which once was “an old newsstand that sold chocolate bars and Snickers and magazines and Snapples, and has done that exact same thing for 30 years,” [co-founder George] Alan says. ... It’s stocked with an array of snacks, on-the-go toiletries (including Help Remedies kits, Binchotan charcoal toothbrushes, and Sir Richard’s all-natural condoms), as well as consumer candy like Google Cardboard sets, Closca collapsible bike helmets, and instant Instax cameras. It’s a mix of truly useful and genuinely covetable.

And!

Like the newsstands of yore, The New Stand will serve news. But instead of selling Posts and TimeOuts, it will blast easily digestible nuggets of news from an app that will work underground, with or without Wi-Fi. It’ll include daily playlists, reblogged news stories, and photos and videos making the rounds online.

In December 2015, Field announced that she was closing her boutique at 306 Bowery to concentrate on her film and TV work and other various projects.

Field, who has run a shop for 50 years, starting in the West Village in 1966, had been at this location between East Houston and Bleecker since 2012.

A visual homage to a William Blake poem outside The Stand on 7th Street and Avenue C

[EVG photo from last month]

Here is some news from The Stand, the pop-up gallery of sorts on the southwest corner of East Seventh Street and Avenue C ... they will be sharing some of their space, per the EVG inbox...

ANON: A downtown New York contemporary photography gallery located on the corner of 7th St. and Avenue C. Part documentary, part fine art gallery, we show the motion and language of the city through photography and the physical space.

Please join us for our opening show tonight at 8 on the corner of East Seventh Street and Avenue C.

We will be presenting Jon-Paul Rodriguez's body of work titled "Some Are Born Two Endless Ninght." The work is a visual homage to William Blake's poem, "Auguries of Innocence."

Find more info at The Stand's website here.

The Collisions tonight at the Stand

Lori Der Hagopian, the proprietor of The Stand, the gallery kiosk on East Seventh Street at Avenue C (a former newsstand), is hosting her first opening here tonight... she is presenting work by Brennan Cavanaugh...

The Collisions are collages made from one edition of The New York Times. Per Lori: "Images from that day's paper are chosen and re-assembled, with x-acto knife and gluestick, to create a personal and surreal revisioning of the day's news."

The opening starts at 7 p.m. The exhibit is up through Sept. 30.

We wrote about The Stand back in May. You can find that post here.

The Stand

In recent weeks you may have noticed the arrival of a Bruce Lee mural on the shed/storage space outside Wholesome Foods on Seventh Street and Avenue C...

The space is now home to the Stand, a gallery "presenting works by Street, Homeless and Unknown Artists."

There are limited hours — 8 p.m.-11 p.m. Friday through Sunday.

In an email to us, proprietor Lori Der Hagopian said that she plans to keep The Stand open indefinitely. You may know her from her Strange Bird Productions. In 2007, she exhibited work in a two-inch-square ad space in the art section of The Village Voice.

So something of this scale may not be such a surprise. Per an article from September 2007 in The Brooklyn Rail:

Rather than endlessly — often enviously — decry the market-driven arrivistes so overexposed in Chelsea, consultants minting bullion from gullibility, Strange Bird practices instead the lost art of invisibility, even a science of silence.

Here's some of the art she has featured on the Strange Bird Tumblr.

We plan to do more about The Stand. Just wanted to let you know about its existence in the the meantime.

[Top two photos by Dave on 7th]