The Gallery on Pearl isn't.

The White House Center storefront is clean, and the Internet is silent. Granted, six and a half years is a good run, extending all the way back to the Garner administration. I attended the opening in April, 2007.

Yesterday's Gallery on Pearl ribbon cutting and grand opening reception.

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(January 23 note: The newspaper confirms that Gallery on Pearl closed on December 31, not to reopen)

Yesterday's Gallery on Pearl ribbon cutting and grand opening reception.

Yesterday afternoon, a grand opening reception and ribbon cutting ceremony marked the official debut of the Gallery on Pearl, located in the White House Business Center at 222 Pearl.

According to Mike “The Human Turnstile” Kopp, Lopp Real Estate’s downtown New Albany impresario, exactly 48 people had come through the doors after one hour, and when Mrs. Confidential and I again walked past roughly an hour later (after a Bistro New Albany interlude), the gallery was still crowded with visitors.

The Tribune’s Eric Scott Campbell previewed the gallery in this February 27 news story: Gallery opens in downtown New Albany.

The Gallery on Pearl’s web site is up, but remains under construction. Bookmark it for future reference.