‘It was clear that the economy of the art world was so different, and that conversation became very concrete.’ That’s Brown, one of New York’s most cultish art dealers, reflecting on how the cancellation of Art Basel in Basel crystallised the economic storm facing dealers, accelerating the closing of his eponymous space in Harlem this past July and his new partnership with veteran dealer Gladstone (he retains his Rome gallery). Moving with him to Gladstone’s three spaces in New York and one in Brussels is big-money painter Alex Katz (he opened a show at the Italian space in November), as well as – at the time of writing – a handful of Brown artists including Joan Jonas, Ed Atkins, Mark Leckey, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Arthur Jafa and the Jannis Kounellis estate. These cool ‘kids’ will join the tony stalwarts of the Gladstone gang, who include Thomas Hirschhorn, Anicka Yi, Shirin Neshat and Matthew Barney, the artist who put the gallery on the map at the beginning of the 1990s. Whether this new alliance is a sign of consolidation to come remains to be seen, but it creates an intriguing and powerful new force in the New York scene.

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