P.P.O.W.

Penny Pilkington and Wendy Olsoff originally opened the gallery that bears their initials back in 1983 in the East Village at a time when the neighborhood hosted a raucous gallery scene. By the end of the decade the scene was effectively dead, so in 1988, P.P.O.W. moved to Soho. In 2002, it moved again, this time to Chelsea, where it has remained as an art-world staple, showing the work of such artists as feminist performance-art pioneer Carolee Schneemann among others.