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Author Roxane Gay Wants Galleries to 'Stop Being Terrible.' They'll Probably Sell More Art That Way


She is. She really, really is. 
In terms of galleries, I think that galleries can remove some of the snobbery around the gallery experience and stop acting like they don’t want to sell their art because that’s really off-putting. And for someone like me, who doesn’t know anything about the art world, when a gallery is off-putting, I just assume nothing is for sale. I’ll leave and go spend my money somewhere else. I think that attitude is really terrible. But I also think how they treat their employees is really terrible. I’m not particularly interested in spending my money in a place that exploits people. So I think just fixing themselves up would help stop being terrible.  ....

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Slow Down the Mega-Galleries, Empower Black Collectors, and 13 Other Changes Art-World Insiders Hope to See in 2021


Art Is Lost in This Town (1989). Photo courtesy of Postmasters Gallery.
The emphasis on business is poisonous. Everybody needs to survive, but one hopes there would be some other levels of operating that are not just 100 percent determined by economic success.
I have this idea of running a night school for collectors: re-education classes on curiosity replacing speculation. I could teach that for minimal compensation because, you know, “everybody needs to survive.” 
Magda Sawon, owner and director, Postmasters Gallery
 
School children enter the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California. Photo by David McNew/Getty Images.
Perhaps museums and galleries could be opened for special school visits. This might be extended to elderly people. There is a strong sense of being isolated and forgotten in the air.  ....

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