When my opening gets announced people frequently call the gallery and ask how much admission is, or if there a dress code. I love that, it lets me know my work is reaching the general public. People who normally don’t go to galleries will come to my show and maybe that might turn them onto art and get them to go to more galleries and museums. At my last opening 3,000 people showed and the police shut it down—I guess that’s like a concert? This time we got the police to close down the street and we’re having an old school Soho block party. I don’t consider myself a rock star but I take advice from them. Mick Jagger once told me “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”
Ryan McGinley animals opens at Team Gallery, Soho, New York
