While SoHo has many subway lines running through it, creating ample foot traffic, gallery-hoppers — and potential shoppers — have to go out of their way to get to Chelsea.
With the increased traffic of gallery-goers to the West 20's every weekend, Dia is so packed that its ground- floor space at 548 West 22nd Street needed to be renovated to accommodate the crowds.
"Across Paris, gallery traffic is down 40 to 50percentt".
Twirling a pen, he reported that walk-in traffic at the gallery had increased fifteenfold.
Mr. Lee has cleared out a normally public traffic area, the gallery, until there is nothing in it but him and me.
But Troemel noticed that traffic on the gallery's Web site had spiked — fans of the artists from outside Chicago were clicking on photos of their shows — and he began to think of the gallery as secondary to its blog.
Sequestered from the main gallery traffic, the work, with its minimal staging, powerfully evokes the passage of untold individuals onto the shallow white cushion where, presumably, their unconscious unraveled through the backward tunnel Freud termed "primary process".
Open from 4 30 a.m. to 11 p.m., the store attracts traffic that any gallery would covet, but art is far from most people's minds; instead they're thinking of the store's staples: lottery tickets, tobacco and coffee.
This is a boon for the winning artists, because although there are many private galleries across Westchester, they don't get the foot traffic that city galleries do.
Poetry readings should be weekly events in Chelsea: say, every Saturday afternoon, to catch maximum art district foot traffic, with various galleries rotating as hosts.
"Dozens of our exhibitors as well as nonexhibiting dealers tell us that there is very little traffic in their galleries," Mr. Smith wrote.
