Gallery Night on Fiddy-Seventh Street. One day when I was in the N, R, or W train I could swear I heard the trainman announce, "Seventh Avenue and Fiddy-seventh Street." It was such a transitory New York moment that I wanted to keep it alive somehow. I know...

But when 54 galleries along Fifty-seventh Street band together to stay open late on a Thursday night for what is now both a Spring and a Fall event, that too makes me a little giddy. Here's the list, sent to me by Howard Greenberg Gallery, where prints by South African photographer David Goldblatt remain on view through June 12^th, along with early work by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Images from the American Civil Rights Movement.

For more information, visit gallery websites and for maps, see the  ArtInfo Gallery Guide.

Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled, 1949 at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery; Tom Wesselmann, Great American Nude #85, 1966 at Maxwell Davidson Gallery; Pablo Picasso, Le Chapeau a fleurs [Jacqueline au chapeau à fleurs. II], 1963 at Marlborough Gallery. Courtesy the galleries.

Susan Aberbach Fine Art: The Americas

Nailya Alexander Gallery: Dmitri Baltermants: Photographs 1940s - 1970s

Alexandre Gallery: Will Barnet Recent Abstract Paintings. Reception for the artist 5:30- 7:30 p.m.

Amador Gallery: Bruce Gilden: Coney Island; artist reception, May 12, 6-8 pm.

Arnot Gallery/Herbert Arnot, Inc.: New York in Spring, Gallery Artists

Art Finance Partners: Artnet Auctions, Modern and Contemporary Sale Preview

Babcock Galleries: From the Light of Distant Skies, A Selection of 19th Century. American Paintings; Marylyn Dintenfass, Parallel Park and Recent Work

Bernarducci Meisel Gallery: Summer Sweet

Bonni Benrubi Gallery: Cedrick Delsaux, Nous restons sur terre

Bonhams: Modern, Contemporary and Latin American Paintings, Tribal Works of Art, Fine Art Photography

Maxwell Davidson Gallery: Tom Wesselmann, Plastic Works

DC Moore Gallery: Katherine Bowling, Nathan Oliveira

Tibor de Nagy Gallery: Kathy Butterly, Pantyhose & Morandi

David Findlay Jr. Fine Art: Woody Gwyn, Recent Landscapes

Wally Findlay Galleries: Charles Neal: Historic Parks and Gardens

Forum Gallery: Alan Feltus, Artist opening reception; James Aponovich, Recent Still Life; Theodore B. Donson, Selected Works on Paper

Gering & Lopez Gallery: William Anastasi, Drawings

James Goodman Gallery: New Acquisitions, Avery, Calder, Chamberlain, Francis

Marian Goodman Gallery: Thomas Struth

Howard Greenberg Gallery: David Goldblatt, Particulars

Greenberg Van Doren Gallery: Richard Diebenkorn, Paintings and Drawings 1949-1955, Katz, Léger, Lichtenstein, Matisse, Miró, Moore, Rauschenberg, and Picasso

Nohra Haime Gallery: Opening New Location with Metamorphosis

Hammer Galleries: Women in 19th and 20th Century Art

Bill Hodges Gallery: Akinori Towma: Extension of the Wish (opening that evening)

Edwynn Houk Gallery: Man Ray: The Early Prints

Leonard Hutton Galleries: Twentieth Century European and Post War American Art

Marlborough Gallery: Pablo Picasso: Celebrating the Muse: Women in Picasso's Prints from 1905 - 1968

Marlborough Graphics: Information not available

A Jain Marunouchi: Susan Obermayer Strauss, Meditations

The Merrin Gallery: Selected Masterpieces of Ancient Art

Jason McCoy: Terrell James, Moorings (opening that evening)

McKee Gallery: Vija Celmins, New York

Mika Gallery: The Sacred Letters

Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art: Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art

Francis M. Naumann Fine Art: Tom Shannon, New Nature

Pace/MacGill Gallery: Jocelyn Lee, Nowhere But Here

Pace Prints: Jane Hammond

Pace Primitive: Gallery collections

Rehs Galleries: Gallery collections

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: Unconscius Unbound, Surrealism in America

Saffronart: Please check website

Scholten Japanese Art: Please check website

Frederico Seve Gallery/latincollector: Carmen Herrera

John Szoke Editions: Prints and works on paper with special emphasis on Picasso

Throckmorton Fine Art: Lucien Clergue

TK Asian Antiquities: Information not available

Ana Tzarev Gallery: City Arts, Pieces for Peace

Washburn Gallery: Nicholas Carone

Wendt Gallery: Victor Matthews, Alter Ego Paintings

D. Wigmore Fine Art: Op Out of Ohio, Anonima Group, Richard Anuszkiewicz and Julian Stanczak in the 1960s

Zabriskie Gallery: Ralston Crawford, Drawings and Photographs

Zone Contemporary Art: Voice of Ethopia, Photographs by Atalia Katz

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