{"id":680160,"date":"2026-06-02T16:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/680160\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T16:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:47:23","slug":"ev-grieve-no-more-karma-for-the-east-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/680160\/","title":{"rendered":"EV Grieve: No more Karma for the East Village"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Karma has quietly left the neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The art gallery, which at one point operated a bookstore and three exhibition spaces, has closed its last East Village locations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Art dealer and publisher Brendan Dugan debuted Karma at 188 E. Second St. between Avenue A and Avenue B (above) in November 2016. A smaller gallery arrived later at 172 E. Second St. (That space is now Holographic Studios<\/a>.) <\/p>\n

Karma Books opened in April 2018 at 136 E. Third St. between Avenue A and First Avenue, and closed in April 2025<\/a>.\u00a0They’ve also recently left 22 E. Second St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery after nearly five years<\/a>. (H\/T Garth).<\/p>\n

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As for 22 E. Second St., Willard Morgan started the Ideal Glass Studios, an artist-run film & TV production studio, here in 2004 … and the Second Street building was in use as a gallery and art collective.<\/p>\n

Morgan, who still owns the building, runs Ideal Glass Studios from a location on West Eighth Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As for Karma<\/a>, they debuted their flagship New York location in the 10,000-square-foot ground floor of the old Otis Elevator Company Building on West 26th Street last summer. They also have an outpost in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karma has quietly left the neighborhood.\u00a0 The art gallery, which at one point operated a bookstore and three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-680160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}