MONMOUTH STREET’S EARLY START ON ’08
Charlotte Scherer, left, and Ambra Talarico prepare to load a painting from Art Forms into a car.
It was late on a chilly, gray, drizzly Sunday afternoon, a quiet time on the eve of New Year’s Eve.
But three Monmouth Street stores were buzzing, as their owners sought to get a jump on big changes for 2008.
Charlotte Scherer was moving out, shutting down her Art Forms gallery after 24 years in town. redbankgreen scoop: Another gallery is taking over the space. The Asher Nieman Gallery, owned by Scherer’s soon-to-be stepaughter, Emily Asher Nieman, is slated to open Feb. 1, Scherer tells us.