No Soul For Sale at X Initiative

Though the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck parked out front of the X Initiative's 22nd Street space provided a bit of visual panache, the throng of revelers who turned out for the opening of "No Soul For Sale: A Festival of Independents" didn't need a landmark to guide them to last night's party in celebration of the nearly forty "Independents" (think: artist collectives, D.I.Y. afficionados) that have overtaken X's massive space. What seemed like every single artist, critic, curator and scenester in the New York art world (and their extended families) packed the building's narrow halls, filing in one single, sweaty line from the ground floor to a rooftop refuge, where Peter Doig and Che Lovelace's Studio Film Club will screen films each evening. No Soul for Sale runs from today, June 24th, through June 28th, with a schedule of screenings, performances, and other events that changes daily.