Fort Gansevoort is an American art gallery that takes its name from the former
fort
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in the
New York City
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borough of
Manhattan
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, called
Fort Gansevoort
Fort Gansevoort is a former United States Army fort in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It was also known as the White Fort due to its whitewashed exterior.
History
The fort was named for Peter Gansevoort, a Revolutionary War offi ...
.
While the fort, which was abandoned in the mid-19th century, was located on the
Hudson River
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at the end of Gansevoort Street, the gallery was created by curator Adam Shopkorn in a building at the other end of the street, in a 19th-century house on the corner of Little West 12th Street, in 2015.
The center contains two floors of gallery space as well as dining and retail areas.
It holds art exhibitions in the galleries, online exhibitions, and art fairs.
In July 2022, the work of
Aboriginal Australian
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artists
Vincent Namatjira
Vincent Namatjira (born 14 June 1983) is an Aboriginal Australian artist living in Indulkana, in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY lands) in South Australia. He has won many art awards, and after being nominated for the Archiba ...
,
Kaylene Whiskey
Kaylene Whiskey, is a Pitjantjatjara artist from Indulkana, a remote Aboriginal community, in South Australia. Whiskey is a contemporary Aboriginal artist who is exhibited in many important Australian galleries and won the 2018 Sir John Sulman ...
and
Tiger Yaltangki
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was displayed in an exhbition called ''Iwantja Rock n Roll'' (with its name derived from
Iwantja Arts
Indulkana (also known as Iwantja, from Iwantja Creek) is an Aboriginal community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia, comprising one of the six main communities on "The Lands" (the others being Ernabella/ Puk ...
, an art centre in the
APY lands
Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara, also known as APY, APY Lands or ''the Lands'', is a large, sparsely-populated local government area (LGA) for Aboriginal people, located in the remote north west of South Australia. Some of the aṉangu ...
of
South Australia
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).
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Art museums and galleries in New York City
Museums in Manhattan
Modern art museums in the United States
Meatpacking District, Manhattan
2015 establishments in New York City
Art museums established in 2015