David Zwirner — Attraction in New York

The staff is rude and no one should patronize it.

Update 4.5 years later (2024): To elaborate on this experience, I meant the staff was racist. It still impacts me to this day and I have never returned and encourage people to never visit this gallery, either, because of this experience.

It started as I sat silently, looking at my phone, waiting for my Lyft as the gallery closed. I spoke with an employee and was granted permission to wait inside as I waited for my Lyft when it was below 30 degrees and I already waited outside for 3 HOURS in freezing, whipping wind to see Yayoi Kusama: EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE. I was frozen and just wanted to sit in warmth as the Lyft navigated traffic. It was the last day of the exhibit and, as the gallery closed, the employees started an after hours wrap party to celebrate. I sat on a bench outside of a large room they congregated in. Next thing I knew, this young (mid 20's), blonde, white lady was berating me and asking me to leave the premises. I shared with her that her colleague gave me permission to wait indoors. She seemed so concerned about this party, that I wasn't even interested in participating in, and walked away as I continued to sitting on a bench and follow the Lyft tracker as they began their party set up (plastic cups and champagne to stand around and talk). She returned to the bench, even more wild and infuriated than before, and I was very confused as to why she was yelling so asked her calmly why she decided to come up to me when I explained the situation and wasn't breaking any rules. She said something to the effect of I was bothering her because I was there and I just looked at her perplexed as she clearly wanted a fight and I just stood there dumbfounded (truly frozen from confusion and the brutal weather I couldn't thaw from).

I remember her colleagues pulling her away as I looked at her and just moved to the doorway. They shook their heads at her and allowed me to continue standing, as I was. There was no apology or acknowledgement of her behavior beyond their head shakes and rolled eyes at her. She wore all black, had her hair in a ponytail and held a cheap plastic cup with even cheaper champagne as she stood in the coat closet her colleagues pushed her into then continued to yell. I remember that there was an older couple sitting by the door with me and I asked them if they were also attendees of the party or waiting to leave too, and she came out to yell that they were an employee's parents and they could wait but I couldn't (despite all three of us being told we didn't have to wait in the winter cold for the poorly paid employees to drink their cheap champagne and feel special for 60 mins).

I actually wrote this original review as I got into my Lyft, still near frozen and now upset. I kept it vague for decorum's sake but racists don't deserve to not be called out.Not only was the overall gallery experience not worth it, the gallery hires nutty, unprofessional, racists that don't deserve careers in...

I just have to start with the employees! They are all rude! Thats it! 3 incident happen to me here today because of how rude the employees are!

I am yelper, so all my reviews are fair with no biases, so everything that I will say here is true. This is my first time reviewing in google.

Today, is my birthday and I decided to see Yayoi Kusama exhibit. I waited 3 hours in the cold, I don’t mind cause I really want to see her artwork. Then the first incident with a guy employee here happened. Me and my friend was following a mother and baby so the line is really long and we don’t want to push the mother and baby even though there is more space on the line, the guy told and tap on me of my shoulder and said “Hey! You better move!”. I told him “yeah but say it nicely”.

We went in, one of the infinity rooms has a time limit of 30 seconds..There is only 3 holes and we are 8 in our group (me, my friend and 6 people not related to us) Afcourse there is a line to peek through the hole. The guy told me “are you going to pick in?? You have 2 seconds left!” Are you serious? 2 seconds?? 3 hours of waiting for 2 seconds??

We finish the rooms and we went to the other exhibit, there we can stay as long as we want. For us to take pictures, we put our bags on the floor, then this girl is running to us and say “You are not allowed to put your things on the floor because it might touch the art work, if you don’t follow me I WILL ESCORT BOTH OF YOU OUTSIDE!” Wow! A THREAT?? That is how they treat people visiting an artwork? Say it in a proper way. I understand it is free, but never treat anybody like that. We are people breathing the same air. No need for that.

On a positive note, I love the exhibit or Yayoi Kusama, love the polka dot room! Will visit Tokyo or LA soon.

I will never visit David Zwirner again, because of the employees. Treat people how people wants to treat you. Everything is just wrong,...

Zwirner opened his first gallery in 1993 on the ground floor of 43 Greene Street in SoHo in New York City,2] with a one-man show of the Austrian sculptor Franz West.[3

In 2002, he moved to 525 West 19th Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York.5] In 2012, he opened a 10,000 sq ft (930 m2) London branch in Grafton Street, in Mayfair, and built a large new space—designed by Annabelle Selldorf—at 537 West 20th Street, Chelsea, New York.[6]

In September 2017, David Zwirner Gallery opened an Upper East Side space in a 1907 townhouse re-designed by Selldorf, right off of Madison Avenue.[7] The gallery's 10,000 sq ft (930 m2) space[8] at the H Queen's building in Hong Kong was also designed by Selldorf.[1

In early 2018, David Zwirner Gallery announced the launch of its fifth location in New York—and its seventh space worldwide—for autumn 2020.10] The five-story, $50 million Renzo Piano-designed gallery on the corner of West 21st Street is set to become Zwirner's new headquarters, with 50,000 sq ft (4,600 m2) of exhibition space as well as improved offices and storage facilities.[11] It will be the first commercial gallery to be designed by the architect.[10] In 2019, David Zwirner Gallery opened an 8,600 sq ft (800 m2) outpost in the Marais district of Paris, its first in continental Europe.[12

According to The New York Times in 2018, David Zwirner Gallery reports annual revenue of 500 million dollars.[11] Given the overall size of its operations, the company is often compared to Gagosian Gallery and Hauser & Wirth.[14]

David Zwirner Gallery is an American contemporary art gallery owned by David Zwirner. It has three gallery spaces in New York City and one each in London, Hong Kong,...