{"id":311,"date":"2008-04-15T18:39:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T01:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/04\/james-freys-half-gallery-opens\/"},"modified":"2008-06-19T14:58:28","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T21:58:28","slug":"james-freys-half-gallery-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/15\/james-freys-half-gallery-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Gallery Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/15\/gallery-opening-crass-commercialism\/#more-710\" target=\"_blank\">from the New York Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17px; color: #8a8a8a\" class=\"date\">April 15th, 2008\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 14px\" class=\"time\">11:11 AM<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24px; line-height: 24px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/15\/gallery-opening-crass-commercialism\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; color: #000000\" title=\"Permanent Link: Gallery Opening | Crass\u00a0Commercialism\" rel=\"bookmark\">Gallery Opening | Crass\u00a0Commercialism<\/a><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px; color: #898989\" class=\"author\">By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/sabrinamansourinyt\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; color: #ff3706\" title=\"Posts by Sabrina Mansouri\" target=\"_blank\">SABRINA MANSOURI<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/blogs\/themoment\/posts\/half_owners.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px\"><span style=\"text-align: center; display: block; font-size: 10px; color: #666666; line-height: 10px\" class=\"caption\">Half Gallery owners Andy Spade, Bill Powers, James Frey. (Kaya Yusi)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px\">Half Gallery, the new gallery on Forsyth Street owned by\u00a0<strong>Andy Spade<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Bill Powers\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>James Frey<\/strong>, held its inaugural show last Thursday night for\u00a0<strong>Matt Damhave<\/strong>, best known as a co-founder of\u00a0<strong>Imitation of Christ<\/strong>. Since leaving the label, Damhave has created graphics for the band\u00a0<strong>Gang Gang Dance<\/strong>\u00a0and most recently contributed artwork to\u00a0<strong>Chlo\u00eb Sevigny<\/strong>\u2019s look book for Opening Ceremony.<span id=\"more-710\"><\/span>\u00a0Chlo\u00eb\u2019s brother,\u00a0<strong>Paul Sevigny<\/strong>, was the first to buy a piece, an image called \u201cAlready Crass.\u201d The exhibition runs through May 10th. For more information, go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.halfgallery.com\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial; color: #ff3706\" target=\"_blank\">halfgallery.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/blogs\/themoment\/posts\/half_art.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px\"><span style=\"text-align: center; display: block; font-size: 10px; color: #666666; line-height: 10px\" class=\"caption\">The artwork of Matt Damhave. (Kaya Yusi)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: left; line-height: 14px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 10px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #898989; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left; padding: 0px\" class=\"postmetadata\">TAGS:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com\/tag\/andy-spade\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #ff3706; font-family: Arial\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">ANDY SPADE<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com\/tag\/chloe-sevigny\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #ff3706; font-family: Arial\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">CHLOE SEVIGNY<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com\/tag\/gang-gang-dance\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #ff3706; font-family: Arial\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">GANG GANG DANCE<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com\/tag\/half-gallery\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #ff3706; font-family: Arial\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">HALF GALLERY<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com\/tag\/imitation-of-christ\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #ff3706; font-family: Arial\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">IMITATION OF CHRIST<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com\/tag\/matt-damhave\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #ff3706; font-family: Arial\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">MATT DAMHAVE<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com\/tag\/opening-ceremony\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #ff3706; font-family: Arial\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">OPENING CEREMONY<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com\/tag\/paul-sevigny\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #ff3706; font-family: Arial\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">PAUL SEVIGNY<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: left; line-height: 14px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 10px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #898989; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left; padding: 0px\" class=\"postmetadata\">[\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/15\/gallery-opening-crass-commercialism\/#more-710\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK TO VIEW ORIGINAL BLURB IN THE NEW YORK TIMES<\/a>\u00a0]\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-transform: none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Times; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<table id=\"Table_01\" width=\"465\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/halfgallery.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.halfgallery.com\/images\/halfgallery_logo.gif\" width=\"457\" height=\"29\" style=\"padding-bottom: 10px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.halfgallery.com\/images\/address1.gif\" \/><a href=\"mailto:info@halfgallery.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.halfgallery.com\/images\/address2.gif\" name=\"email\" width=\"164\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" style=\"padding-top: 20px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/halfgallery.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.halfgallery.com\/images\/index_02.gif\" width=\"457\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0[ <a href=\"http:\/\/halfgallery.com\" target=\"_blank\">click to visit the half gallery website<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the New York Times April 15th, 2008\u00a011:11 AM Gallery Opening | Crass\u00a0Commercialism By\u00a0SABRINA MANSOURI Half Gallery owners Andy Spade, Bill Powers, James Frey. (Kaya Yusi) Half Gallery, the new gallery on Forsyth Street owned by\u00a0Andy Spade,\u00a0Bill Powers\u00a0and\u00a0James Frey, held its inaugural show last Thursday night for\u00a0Matt Damhave, best known as a co-founder of\u00a0Imitation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}