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Art Galleries Discover That Their Business Model Is Covid-Proof
Museums? Not so much.
Albers and Morandi: Never Finished at David Zwirner, New York
Source: David Zwirner
Even though 2020 was not the year James Fuentes had bargained for, when he tallied up his New York gallery’s profits and losses he was stunned to discover that his business was doing great.
“I need to stress that we were all hustling so hard,” says Fuentes, whose small space on the Lower East Side has five employees and represents 10 artists. “It felt like a fight for survival, and then, come January, we looked back at the last year and I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ It was surprising.”