gallery openings

Morris’s show, ‘Midtown Paintings: 1998-2001,’ is on view at Petzel Gallery’s Upper East Side outpost.

With the previous evening's batch of new-season Chelsea gallery openings already receding into memory (24 hours is a long time in the art world), did the following day's events offer any special satisfactions?

Last Thursday was back-to-school night for the New York art world. Liana Finck braved the amped-up crowds and calescent galleries to catch up with an assembly of old stagers and gussied-up new kids.