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Japanese Art Museum and 4 Art Galleries Opening in Chelsea Condo

By Maya Rajamani | March 23, 2017 3:02pm
 500 W. 21st St., at 10th Avenue.
500 W. 21st St., at 10th Avenue.
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CHELSEA — A Japanese art museum and four art galleries are opening on West 21st Street as part of a developer’s plan to transform a condo building into an “international arts hub.”

The Sato Sakura Museum is opening a 2,250-square-foot space on the ground floor of 500 W. 21st St., at 10th Avenue, developer Sherwood Equities announced.

The galleries relocating to the building from their current spaces are Galleria Ca’d’Oro, which features contemporary Italian art; Praxis International Art Gallery, which focuses on modern and contemporary Latin American art; and the Washburn Gallery, which features 19th and 20th century American art.

Additionally, YSP Gallery will open a space that exhibits ceramics created by South Korean artist Young Sook Park.

“The building at 500 W. 21st St. is in the heart of West Chelsea, among the most arts-centric neighborhoods in New York with galleries home to some of the city’s most avant-garde installations,” Sherwood Equities CEO Jeffrey Katz said in a statement.

The developer hopes to create an “international arts hub” beneath the building’s 32 luxury apartments, the release said.

Sherwood Equities' announcement comes on the heels of the Related Companiesplans to open 15 new gallery spaces in the neighborhood, a few of which will occupy the developer’s Zaha Hadid-designed condo building on West 28th Street.

The West 21st Street museum and galleries are expected to open by late July, a spokesman said.