{"id":1126,"date":"2009-09-30T16:27:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T23:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/09\/opening_thursday_night_in_seat\/"},"modified":"2009-09-30T16:27:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T23:27:33","slug":"opening_thursday_night_in_seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/09\/opening_thursday_night_in_seat.html","title":{"rendered":"Is First Thursday over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though it&#8217;s the first Thursday of the month, very few Pioneer Square galleries are opening shows tomorrow night. In the old days, when PS galleries marched in lock step, everybody opened on First Thursday and closed at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>That 12-show a year schedule was tough to maintain. Too tough, plus, it didn&#8217;t allow for the work to sink in. Some galleries drifted toward 6-week shows, and others began to open and close when they felt like it. <\/p>\n<p>But never have so few galleries debuted on First Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s there is top of the line. The usual others will be open as well, even though they are nearly all at the end of a run.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Offenbacher &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"matthewoffenbachcat.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/matthewoffenbachcat.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"463\" width=\"400\" \/>and Tony De Los Reyes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tonydelosreyflag.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/tonydelosreyflag.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"250\" width=\"428\" \/><br \/>open at&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardhouse.net\/current\/index.html\">Howard House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Tim Roda &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"timrodablckeye.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/timrodablckeye.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"586\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/>and Drew Daly &#8230;<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"drewdalybaskball.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/drewdalybaskball.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"380\" width=\"150\" \/>open at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregkucera.com\/\">Greg Kucera<\/a>. That&#8217;s all in the way of mainstream galleries. Fortunately, mainstream galleries aren&#8217;t the only ones in the Square. <a href=\"http:\/\/soilart.org\/currentshow\/index.htm\">Soil<\/a> opens what looks like a fascinating invitational lineup, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.punchgallery.org\/sweepstakes\/index.html\">Punch<\/a> is auctioning off its entire group show, $10 per ticket.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in. Among other tempting offerings, the piece below, by Ries Niemi, is calling my name.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"riesniemidrunk.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/riesniemidrunk.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"460\" width=\"459\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though it&#8217;s the first Thursday of the month, very few Pioneer Square galleries are opening shows tomorrow night. In the old days, when PS galleries marched in lock step, everybody opened on First Thursday and closed at the end of the month. That 12-show a year schedule was tough to maintain. Too tough, plus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}