THERE is no New York art world; there are only art worlds: a planetary system with no sun at its center.
Certain
alpha institutions, collectors and pundits may dispute this
decentralized model, but galleries tend to confirm it. There are many
hundreds of them, if not thousands, large and small, throughout the
city. Most are commercial enterprises. A rich, tiny handful has a
ridiculous amount of power over what should be shared resources, like
museum exhibition schedules and the attention of curators and boards of
trustees. But most galleries get by the way we all do in this city, on
work, budgets and luck. And they’re a bargain for art lovers.
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