Today I braved the pre-blizzard wind and snow (see the animation above taken today at 4:30pm in Chelsea... 4:30!!!!) to visit a few galleries in all three neighborhoods.  PLUS I learned how to make animated GIFs (see above).

Midtown - Though I don't give Midtown or Upper East Side recommendations on this site, I do go see a handfull of shows every month.  Today was Gerhard Richter at Marian Goodman & David Hockney (part 2) at PaceWildenstein.  Though good, Richter's show didn't measure up to the reviews (see TimeOut's review here).  Hockney's show is split between Pace's Chelsea gallery and Midtown gallery.  I loved the show in Chelsea, and this work in Midtown was the best I saw all day.

Lower East Side & Chelsea - no real "must see" shows that will be added to the "top five" but a lot of interesting group shows (Andrew Edlin & Salon 94 to name just 2 of the 6 good group shows I saw today) that provided great introductions to artists I've never seen before.

Galleries will be CLOSED over the holiday weekend, and possibly over New Years weekend too. so see you in January!