CENTRAL BOOKING : CLOSED

  CENTRAL BOOKING IS CLOSING.  Maddy Rosenberg was the curator and co-owner of Lower East Side Gallery Central Booking NYC.  Her poisonous reputation as a miser and a thief precedes her.  Her cute collection of art and science books might confuse you as shee has a good eye for finding exploitable emerging artists and then bullying them.    Maddy doesn’t pay her artists and has multiple outstanding legal claims against her.  If you are an artist or collector considering working with her, be warned. 

   Her personal work can be described as dinky at best.  “Brooklyn Brownstones” is a simple series.  It offers little information or detail and looks as if very little time was spent on each.  They fail to celebrate the history of Brooklyn’s architecture and neighborhoods. “Munich Interventions” bores as well.  The fragmented scraps fall into the category of a college freshman mistake.  While bad at business, Rosenberg was a better curator than an artist herself. 

   Central Booking closes its doors in April 2018, after years of operation.  Visiting artists such as C Bangs, Manuelita Buendiaz Jr., flexCO, Margot Niederland and more made it what it was and while the funky community will be missed, its figure head will not.  I’m curious what the space will be next. 

Show by Flex Co

Show by Greg Lindquist