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Musical Chairs in San Francisco's Gallery Scene

June 10, 2009 by Marion Maneker

The Examiner‘s Micaela van Zwoll surveys the changes in the San Francisco gallery scene brought about by the recession:

For a while, the economic realities facing the world have been blamed for the decline of the contemporary art market. A surprising outcome of the decline is newfound collaborations among galleries and a fresh willingness from galleries for price transparency. In some cases, the downturn brought misfortune to San Francisco with multiple losses of one fine art gallery after another. Some say this is a natural expectation, and an opportunity for the best to rise resulting from attrition, but the list is surprising. It includes prominent art dealers who have the diminished and seriously downsized their exhibition spaces, or have closed their doors and are lost to the gallery world ether.

Another One Bites the Dust, A Requiem to San Francisco Art Galleries (SF Examiner)

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