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Contemporary-art collector Glenn Fuhrman is doing his bit to help struggling artists during this time of gallery closings and sagging art sales. The co-managing partner of MSD Capital LP, money manager for Michael Dell, Fuhrman has turned over his sleek New York exhibition space to a show starring artists whose galleries have shrunk or closed. “This couldn’t be more timely,” said art dealer Edward Winkleman, standing in a throng of collectors, dealers and artists who attended the show’s opening party. He admitted the theme made him squeamish. “It’s my fear that if you do this show in six months, it will be four times as big.” Titled “Re-Accession: For Sale by Owner,” — a combination of “recession” and “de-accession” — the summer- long show opened June 23 at Fuhrman’s Flag Art Foundation, located on the 9th and 10th floors of a glassy commercial condominium building called the Chelsea Arts Tower, featuring million-dollar views of the Hudson River and Manhattan’s industrial West Side. The show features 31 artists, among them those formerly associated with galleries including Roebling Hall, Merge and Moeller Snow — spaces that are now defunct. Some artists had been dropped or otherwise lost gallery representation as dealers have trimmed rosters. Others had ridden out the art boom without ever landing a dealer. (Bloomberg)
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