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...made it economically difficult for dealers to show new or unfamiliar art in the fading years of the '60s boom. Opening a branch in SoHo became a necessary gamble. Paula Cooper, the first gallery owner to try it, was watched and eventually followed by Establishment figures like Leo Castelli, Richard Feigen, Ivan Karp and Andre Emmerich...
...cosy aerie up three flights of creaky, splintery stairs. More recent arrivals include Max Hutchinson, a peripatetic Australian; Reese Palley, an Atlantic City Boardwalk porcelain salesman; and smooth-talking, Brooklyn-born Ivan Karp. Uptown dealer Richard Feigen maintains a downtown branch in SoHo, and two more uptown power houses-Castelli and Emmerich-recently announced plans to open outlets in the neighborhood...
...Things are still well made," insists Keith Sonnier, "but the artists are sneakier about it." Sometimes indeed they are so sneaky that their craftsmanship eludes the viewer altogether. Bruce Nauman, 26, at Manhattan's Leo Castelli Gallery last February, showed off crude fiber glass forms, limp latex-and-cloth sculptures, and a stuttering neon sign that proclaimed "The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths." Minimalist Morris blossomed forth at a Castelli spring show with billowing grey strips of industrial felt...
...shows have all been sellouts, although his prices range up to $6,000. Still only 31, Poons has become a prodigy of the Manhattan art world, but he clearly has no intention of resting on his reputation. His newest canvases, now on view at Manhattan's Castelli Gallery, display a totally new style (see color opposite...
Early Morrisiana includes such wily visual conundrums as a bronze box secured with a padlock, the key to which is inside the box. His recent show at Manhattan's Castelli Gallery began with 15-to 50-ft.-long hanks of handsome industrial felt, sliced into strips and dangled weirdly from the walls. In later weeks, the gallery showed cold-rolled steel and aluminum mesh bolted together with immense authority-into impossibly useless, pointless, outsized shapes...