Salon 94 — Attraction in New York

On a rainy Saturday, my wife and I found ourselves outside a gallery we had only discovered the night before. This exquisite and unique townhouse has a pedigree of its own and would be worth visiting even if it were empty. Fortunately for us, it offers an ongoing rotation of exceptional artists from across the world.

Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn is the space's owner/curator and is exceptionally well-known in the art world. She has produced highly recognized exhibits and collaborated with dozens of celebrities.

The Studio 94 space is on four floors of the 17,000 sq ft townhouse and is open to the public for free. On our recent visit, the current exhibition was of furniture designer Max Lamb, with each floor curated by material and artwork by Jay Sae Jung Oh.

You enter the gallery through what would have been a covered driveway. During our visit, the ground-floor reception room was filled with stone and marble furniture, with some pieces looking like they must have weighed thousands of pounds. At the back of the gallery is a "neo-Renaissance oval staircase featuring a Philippe Malouin chandelier, custom-made for the space." As mentioned, the architecture itself is worth a visit.

Further upstares are a series of gallery rooms, including a front room with exceptional arch windows overlooking the trees on 89th Street.

The space is exceptional, the staff lovely and well-informed, and while the works rotate, we were inspired and plan on returning later this Spring for their...

Complete racist place. When white people took pictures with their cell phone staff said nothing, and as a woman of color, we were accused of doing professional photoshoot with our [cellphone]. To all the alt fashion people. Do not come here unless if you want to be followed and falsely accused of doing "photoshoot" using your cellphone by staff members. Today I went with my friend in a Japanese subculture style fashion. We took a while taking pictures in the stair case, blocking no one, and when a staff approached us and ask us to leave the stairway, we followed their ask and went to the 2nd floor. After 5 minutes of us taking pictures on the 2nd floor (which was completely empty), another staff member came and told us we cannot do "photoshoot" here, while I was using my cellphone to take pictures of my friend, like all the other white visitors were doing (which the staff have no problem with). When white people take pictures with cell phones, they did not get followed by the staff. Then the staff went on accusing me for leaning on the wall, and I said "check your surveillance camera and show me...

Are the staff or organisers here playing games?

I visited last week hoping to view the exhibition, having checked Google’s opening days and hours beforehand—only to find the venue under construction, with the displays being changed. Disappointed but still curious, I approached a nearby staff member to ask when the next exhibition would be available to view. I was told to return on Friday.

After making the effort to visit again on that day, I arrived to find the doors closed. I rang the bell with no response. Strangely, when an older couple rang the bell, they were admitted. As I attempted to follow them inside, a person who was just leaving abruptly told us, “It’s closed today,” and simply shut the door in our face.

Fortunately, I’m spending a full month in Manhattan and can return at a later date. However, for others like us who came all that way only to be denied entry, it would have been nothing but a frustrating waste of time.

Not only is Google’s listed schedule wholly unreliable, but I’m truly disappointed by the irresponsibility of staff who provide inaccurate information with such...