
Why New York Galleries Keep Moving
From SoHo's lofts to Chelsea's garages to Tribeca's bank buildings, galleries have always chased cheap square footage and dragged the city's art map with them.
Coverage of the galleries that carry contemporary art: program direction, roster arrivals and departures, expansions, closures and how consignment and representation actually work. Includes blue-chip spaces and artist-run rooms. Useful for artists weighing an offer and for collectors reading a program's intentions.
Coverage of the galleries that carry contemporary art: program direction, roster arrivals and departures, expansions, closures and how consignment and representation actually work. Includes blue-chip spaces and artist-run rooms. Useful for artists weighing an offer and for collectors reading a program's intentions.

From SoHo's lofts to Chelsea's garages to Tribeca's bank buildings, galleries have always chased cheap square footage and dragged the city's art map with them.

Between the lease and the lumpy art market, small New York galleries stack half a dozen incomes on top of one address.

Representation deals are handshake-first agreements that harden into a one-page contract built on exclusivity, term, territory and a fifty-fifty split.