"Galleries in a Changing World" | Talking Galleries New York 2024

TALKING GALLERIES NEW YORK 2024
In collaboration with Schwartzman&
April 8-9 2024
The Spiral by Tishman Speyer
Panel discussion
"Be True to Your School: Galleries in a Changing World"
Speakers:
- Sadie Coles, Founder, Sadie Coles HQ
- Mónica Manzutto, Co-Founder, kurimanzutto
- Jasmin Tsou, Director, Lisson Gallery, New York
Moderated by Andrew Russeth, journalist and art critic
Back in 2008, the art critic Dave Hickey complained that contemporary art galleries had become “department stores.” While “stables of artists once embodied the taste of the gallerist,” Hickey told the journalist Sarah Douglas, dealers were now showing a little bit of everything. “So they make more profit, but they have less power and influence”, he said. Over the past 16 years, many stables have grown as galleries have expanded, while art fairs and the internet have spread trends around the world. How can galleries maintain unique identities in this homogenizing environment? How can they be collaborative in an increasingly competitive landscape? How can they reflect a society that is undergoing rapid change? How can they fight against a monocultural art world-and make history?

[@usacut6968]

Of course, the smartest artists would have what it takes to put together a team of advisors to run a country (if they were interested in an all-access project). This would actually improve certain things and not just change them. All weapons would disappear. The Defense Forces would be renamed the Refinement Forces. I'm a damn dreamer, you bet!

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One thing has to be admitted: The girls try their best not to say anything. New artists, that's a joke, they're babies that are now being shaped for the market. The last generation of artists that had something to say was the generation that started in the 90s (their gallerists were the same generation). What they had in mind was never eloquently integrated into the economy. By this I mean that politics could be equipped with the paradigms of critical art. Art should not follow politics, art should do politics.