The Clocktower Gallery

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108 Leonard St Fl 13
New York, NY 10013

History

Over its 40-year history, the Clocktower Gallery has presented formative work by some of the most important artists of our time, including Gordon Matta-Clark, Lynda Benglis, Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, and David Tudor among many others. Today, the Clocktower presents a full program of exhibitions, performances, and residencies that honor the spirit of the alternative spaces movement by focusing on experimental, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational projects.

Specialties

Founded in 1972 by Alanna Heiss, the Clocktower Gallery is a legendary alternative art space for exhibitions, performances, long-term and site-specific installations, and artist residencies. Located on the 13th floor of a City-owned building at 108 Leonard St. in Tribeca, the Clocktower Gallery presents a full calendar of exhibitions, live performances, events and residencies by emerging and established artists of across disciplines. The galleries are open Tuesday-Friday from 12-5pm, with events multiple evenings a month. All Clocktower programs are all-ages, and free to the public. The Clocktower Gallery's radio station operating at www.ARTonAIR.org is a free and searchable online cultural audio archive with 6,000+ hours of diverse, indexed content, including recordings of all Clocktower events. An unduplicated collection in any media, listen online to non-commercial & experimental music, audio art, spoken word, cultural news, new media innovation, and restored historic audio

Reviews

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5.01 reviews
Kay S.
7/16/2013

Very cool gallery/exhibition space. I saw the Jene Highstein show which was beautiful and they have cool events pretty much every week. this place is cool as galleries get. definitely worth the...

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