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Byline: Dodie Kazanjian
Marianne Boesky has built herself
a new gallery in Chelsea, on West Twenty-fourth Street, which happens to be the art world's current power block. In
her case, building didn't mean renovating a former factory or garage, as most other dealers have done, but buying a parking lot, hiring an architect, and putting up a dazzling white brick-and-corrugated-metal structure. "I'm not the newest, youngest kid on the block," says Boesky, who celebrates her gallery's tenth anniversary this month, "and I'm not
Larry [Gagosian] or Barbara [Gladstone]. I'm in that middle ground, but I'm hoping that now we'll get to the next level."
She chose architect Deborah Berke, who made a splash a few years ago with her 111,000-
square-foot space for Yale's School of Art, although she had never designed a commercial gallery before. "This building's relation to the street is a striking expression of the gallery's ...