BIRGIT MEGERLE opens her first NYC solo show at DANIEL REICH GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007 - the show has been extended til MARCH 10, 2007

a table top tableau, 'The Stage', opened the show. BIRGIT MEGERLE, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007

the back was a kind of "mini-JACK PIERSON" free standing wall. 'The Stage', BIRGIT MEGERLE, DANIEL REICH GALLERY,
Feb 10, 2007

detail, BIRGIT MEGERLE, 'The Stage', DANIEL REICH GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007

detail, BIRGIT MEGERLE, 'The Stage', DANIEL REICH GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007

detail, BIRGIT MEGERLE, 'The Stage', DANIEL REICH GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007

BIRGIT MEGERLE, 'The Grid', 2007, oil on canvas, 51 x 37-1/2 ins, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007 - click on image for full screen

BIRGIT MEGERLE, 'The Entrance', 2007, oil on canvas, 59 x 78-3/4 ins, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007

BIRGIT MEGERLE, 'Soft, Not Aggressive', 2007, oil on canvas, 47-1/4 x 33-1/2 ins, DANIEL REICH GALLERY,
Feb 10, 2007

BIRGIT MEGERLE, 'The Duty', 2007, oil on canvas, 51 x 37-1/2 ins, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007

BIRGIT MEGERLE, we were lucky enough to catch Birgit assembling 'The Stage' just before the show opened. DANIEL REICH GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007

BIRGIT MEGERLE assembling 'The Stage', DANIEL REICH GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007

BIRGIT MEGERLE assembling 'The Stage', DANIEL REICH GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007

BIRGIT MEGERLE assembling 'The Stage', DANIEL REICH GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007

BIRGIT MEGERLE assembling 'The Stage', DANIEL REICH GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007

from left, DANIEL REICH GALLERY manager GUILLAUME ROUCHON with SASHA ROSSMAN of GALERIE NEU,(BERLIN), at the BIRGIT MEGERLE opening, her first solo show in New York.. GALERIE NEU also exhibits the work of this Berlin-based artist. DANIEL REICH GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007

DANIEL REICH (in the cool sweater), HARVEY SHIPLEY MILLER on the cell. BIRGIT MEGERLE opening, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, Feb 0, 2007

just before the opening of her first NYC show, BIRGIT MEGERLE with HARVEY SHIPLEY MILLER, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007

spotted at the BIRGIT MEGERLE opening, SUZANNE MALLOUK with friend ROBERT KNAFO. SUZANNE was the "real-life" girlfriend of JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT - in the JULIAN SCHNABEL helmed movie she's the one who got re-gifted with the MADONNA scarf ! She went on to Med school, and is now a full fledged M.D. - psychiatry, practicing in Connecticut. DANIEL REICH GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007

JACOB BOEHME, 'The Words', Volume Four, 1781, in 'COSMOLOGIES', Jan 11 - Feb 10, 2007, JAMES COHAN GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007

ANONYMOUS Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer aus dem 16ten und 17ten Jahrhundert, Erstes und Zweites Heften 1785, 'COSMOLOGIES', JAMES COHAN GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007

closer up, ANONYMOUS, Geheime Figren der Rosekreuzer, 'COSMOLOGIES', JAMES COHAN GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007

ITALIAN Ptolemaic Armillary Sphere, ca 1900, 'COSMOLOGIES', JAMES COHAN GALLERY,
Feb 10, 2007

up close, ITALIAN Ptolemaic Armillary Sphere, ca 1900, 'COSMOLOGIES', JAMES COHAN GALLERY,
Feb 10, 2007

ROBERT FLUDD, Utriusque Cosmi Historia Tomus I/De Macrocosmi Historia, 1617, 'COSMOLOGIES', JAMES COHAN GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007

JOESPH CORNELL, 'The Atmosphere as a Thermostat, ca 1958, 'COSMOLOGIES, JAMES COHAN GALLERY, Feb 10, 2007

LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY, 1848-1933, TIFFANY STUDIO Rose Window, leaded FAVRILE GLASS, THE MET,
Jan 27, 2007
PHOTO: KATE CERIGO

detail, LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY, TIFFANY STUDIO, Rose Window 1906, leaded FAVRILE GLASS, THE MET, Jan 27, 2007
'LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY and LAURELTON HALL - AN ARTIST'S COUNTRY ESTATE',
NOV 21, 2006 - MAY 20, 2007
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
PHOTO: KATE CERIGO

LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY, TIFFANY FURNACES, VASE, ca 1908, FAVRILE GLASS, THE MET, Jan 27, 2007
PHOTO: KATE CERIGO

LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY, TIFFANY FURNACES, VASE, ca 1908, FAVRILE GLASS, THE MET, Jan 27, 2007
PHOTO: KATE CERIGO

LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY, TIFFANY GLASS AND DECORATING CO, THE MET,
Jan 27, 2007
PHOTO: KATE CERIGO

detail, glass base, LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY, TIFFANY GLASS and DECORATING CO, THE MET, Jan 27, 2007
PHOTO: KATE CERIGO

LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY, PUMPKIN and BEETS WINDOW, ca 1899-1900, LAEDED FAVRILE GLASS, THE MET, Jan 27, 2007
PHOTO: KATE CERIGO

CHRISTIAN SCHAD, German, 1894-1982, oil on wood, 'Count St. Genois d'Anneaucourt', 1927, .. "painted from memory..", in 'GLITTER AND DOOM' - German Portaits from the 1920s,
Nov 14, 2006 - FEB 19, 2007, THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART,
Jan 27, 2007
PHOTO: KATE CERIGO

CHRISTIAN SCHAD, German, 'Agosta the "Winged One" and Rasha the "Black Dove", 1929, 'GLITTER and DOOM' - German Portraits from the 1920s, THE MET,
Jan 27, 2007
PHOTO: KATE CERIGO

CHRISTIAN SCHAD, German 1894-982, in 'GLITTER AND DOOM' - German Portraits of the 1920s, THE MET,
Jan 27, 2007
PHOTO: KATE CERIGO

OTTO DIX, German, 1891 - 1969, 'The dancer Anita Berber', 1925 .. she's only 25, ... but "deteriorating quickly from drug use", 'GLITTER AND DOOM' - German Portaits from the 1920s, THE MET,
Jan 27, 2007
PHOTO: KATE CERIGO

3rd YEAR SVA (School of Visual Arts, NYC) students, KATE CERIGO, (who is the artlovers web graphics intern), and CASEY McVICKER, out doing field research at THE MET,
Jan 27, 2007