Buy a dying dive bar in a yuppified nightlife area (an area with more than a couple clubs or loud bars nearby) and convert it into an art gallery. An art gallery that stays open until 2 a.m., serves wine and mixed drinks, and whose exhibitions change -weekly-. Good music is played (“at a reasonable volume from 9 to 11”), a friendly (mostly social) environment is fostered. The art is edgy and modern created by starving artists who aren’t necessarily local, it’s priced reasonably (though the artist should have an opportunity to make a fair bit from a show— by keeping costs low and selling more than one of each piece, for example). Purchased art can be held for you to pick up the next afternoon.
This art gallery would invite people who seek a bit of repose during an evening of wild partying and debauchery. The weekly change would keep people coming back each weekend to see what’s new.
Isn’t this idea so 2002?
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Jun 17 02004 2.41a
Thomas F. O'Connell #
Quite 2002. But stuff reaches Nashville slowly. I’m game (but I guarantee you Whitney’s not… in Nashville)!
Jun 17 02004 8.34a
carl #
My feeling is that Nashville doesn’t quite have the hip nightlife density in one particular area yet.
The key is that people go out at night without necessarily having this gallery in mind as their destination, or anything else in mind for that matter, so they go to an area rather than a particular destination. Once they’re there, they should be within a short walk of the gallery. In other words, I don’t think it’s the kind of thing people would drive to and home from each weekend were it alone on the street.