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Gallery chronicle.(a look at the art galleries)

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| March 01, 2007 | Panero, James | COPYRIGHT 2007 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Art galleries usually rise and fall through the personalities of their founders. Betty Cuningham, David Nolan, and Salander-O'Reilly, the three galleries featured in the chronicle last month, all owe their success to the name on the door.

Odds are that a gallery will not outlive its founder. Most galleries choose not to find out. Just look at a list of New York galleries from fifty years ago, and you will see no more than a handful in operation today.

The galleries profiled this month have therefore beat the odds. All have contended with the departure of their founding directors. Consider Knoedler & Company, the oldest gallery operating in New York, now ...

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