We are pretty bummed here at Bushwick Daily that we have to break this sad news. The Bogart Salon is closing down. One of the most distinctive galleries at 56 Bogart and in the neighborhood as well, has released a note addressed to their friends and supporters last night. “After a remarkable year The Bogart Salon will be closing on Monday, October 29th,” writes the gallery director and the curator of the galleries in the building, Peter Hopkins. Peter Hopkins doesn’t explain the details of his abrupt end at 56 Bogart. In order to obtain an explanation, we tried to reach the owners of the building Ted Hovivian and Adrienne Saccone by phone, however we didn’t have any luck.
Peter Hopkins regrets to end the 14 months at The Bogart Salon. However he is promising some exciting news for the future: relocating to another location in Bushwick and an “even bolder and more expansive vision for art and culture.”
I believe that it is safe to say that The Bogart Salon under the reign of Peter Hopkins was an extraordinary gallery. Apart from the regular art shows, The Bogart Salon hosted panel discussions such as Confronting Bushwick, or Capital and Its Discontents; together with the Indian curator Meenakshi Thurikode, The Bogart Salon has been filming the world’s first ever Bollywood style soap opera filmed in a gallery, Isha: a Tell All Tale, and the most recently they organized citydrift/Bushwick the first iteration of a multi-city, multi-nation meta art event that continued in Detroit recently and has world-wide ambitions.
