Sure, in ways, it's an unlikely if disparate meshing of talent. But this concert, the latest in a series of events produced to fight the spread in AIDS in Africa as a part of (RED)NIGHTS, finds an anchor in celebrated singer-composer-painter Gavin Friday, a childhood friend of Bono. His band is among those performing. Other performers besides Johansson and Love include Antony Hegarty, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright (last seen celebrating Édith Piaf), Andrea Corr (yes, of those Corrs), Laurie Anderson, and perennial post-punk princess Lydia Lunch.

The uncompromising visionary behind Antony and the Johnsons opened the "Six Eyes" group show at Galerie Du Jour in Paris earlier this week and will take the stage at Coachella this weekend.

"Are you here?” asks the woman manning the door at TriBeCa’s Clocktower Gallery. “Yes, I am here,” I affirm. She’s an event publicist scanning her clipboard and guest list, but she could just as easily have been a choreographed part of Antony and the Johnson’s performance piece -- a meditation on being present in an increasingly disappearing natural world -- soon to begin 13 flights upstairs.

There's not the slightest doubt that galleries are hurting suffering direly lately. The fallout has gotten so abysmal that they've embraced a rather Donnie Darko-esque method of raising awareness. So this weekend, wherever you are across the world, make a little time to patronize your local galleries. Just because the New Depression's made mincemeat out of television and pop music doesn't mean art is experiencing a similar creative drought.