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Sinvin leads latest art gallery to West Chelsea.


West Chelsea, the fast-growing center for art galleries in Manhattan, is the latest spot on the globe for Bodhi Art, contemporary fine art promoters based in India and Singapore.

Bodhi Art signed a 10-year lease for the 6,000 s/f loft on the fourth floor of 535 West 24th Street.

Michelle Stone, managing director at Sinvin Realty realty n. a short form of "real estate." (See: real estate)


REALTY. An abstract of real, as distinguished from personalty. Realty relates to lands and tenements, rents or other hereditaments. Vide Real Property.
 Corp., represented the owner, GTM See Good-this-Month order.  Associates, as the exclusive broker for the property. Doug Rice, of Rice and Associates, represented Bodhi Art in the deal. The exact terms are not being disclosed, but the owner had been asking $34 per square foot.

"This is the most prestigious block in the West Chelsea art district," said Stone, "and the entire building has been recently gut renovated. There are all new building systems: new bathrooms, HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning) In the home or small office with a handful of computers, HVAC is more for human comfort than the machines. In large datacenters, a humidity-free room with a steady, cool temperature is essential for the trouble-free , elevator, and lobby. The leased space also features high ceilings, hardwood floors, and exposed brick walls.

The tenant expects to open in the fall. Bodhi Art's collections and exhibitions have included works by internationally renowned artists such as Ram Kumar Ram Kumar (born 1924, in Shimla, India) is a contemporary Indian artist. Educated as an economist with an M.A. from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Ram Kumar took classes at the Sharda Vakil School of Art, and then went to Paris and studied further there under Andre Lhote and Fernard  (b. 1924), V. S. Gaitonde (1924-2001), M. F. Husain This article concerns M.F. Husain, the Indian artist. For the grandson of Prophet Muhammad, see Husayn bin Ali. For the late king of Jordan, see Hussein of Jordan.

Maqbool Fida Husain, (born September 17, 1915, Pandharpur, Maharashtra) popularly known as M F Husain
 (b. 1915), and F. N. Souza (1924-2002).

Three other galleries, Danese, Reeves Contemporary, and Silverstein Photography, are also located at 535 West 24th Street. Bodhi Art is the first international gallery in the immediate area.
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