UPDATE: on 9 March, two days after the closure of Metro Pictures was announced, Hauser & Wirth announced that it will now represent Cindy Sherman Installation view of Isaac Julien, Lessons of the Hour–Frederick Douglass (2019) at Metro Pictures, New York Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York
Metro Pictures, the New York gallery indivisible with the Pictures Movement of the 1980s, has shocked the art world by announcing it will soon close.
In an email, founders Helene Winer and Janelle Reiring announced on Sunday 7 March that they would close Metro Pictures by the end of 2021, bringing to an end a storied and highly influential 40 years at the beating heart of postmodernist and conceptual photography. Speaking to