Red Grooms, “Bumper to Bumper,” acrylic and mixed media on wood, 2009 (courtesy Marlborough Gallery)
More than forty galleries along 57th St. between Lexington & Eighth Aves. will remain open until 8:00 on Thursday night, many holding opening or closing receptions or other special programming as part of the semiannual Gallery Night on 57th St. Among the participants, and their current shows, are Edwynn Houk (“Herb Ritts,” “Hannes Schmed: Cowboy”), the Pace Gallery (“Ad Reinhardt: Works from 1935-1945”), Bernarducci.Meisel (“The New York Project: Paintings of the City by Artists from Around the World”), Marian Goodman (“Gabriel Orozco: Corplegados and Particles”), Tibor de Nagy (“John Beerman: Recent Paintings”), Gering & López (David Levinthal’s “Attack of the Bricks: Star Wars”), Michael Rosenfeld (“Evolution in Action”), Marlborough (“Red Grooms, New York: 1976-2011”), Howard Greenberg (“Beyond Words: Photography in the New Yorker”), and Galerie St. Etienne (“The Lady and the Tramp: Images of Women in Austrian & German Art”).