Haunch of Venison (the Christie’s-owned gallery that Blain and Southern founded and direct) announced that its Zurich branch is to close at the end of this year, and both its New York director and a number of artists have parted ways with the organisation. Meanwhile its enormous temporary premises at the back of London’s Royal Academy (rented at a reported £4 million-plus for three years) has opened. Yet with so many new exhibitions, and ones that don’t so much open as pop up out of nowhere, the megagallery is turning into a programmatically confusing space. Though an artworld juggernaut, it’s hard to tell if anyone’s behind the wheel. Maybe that doesn’t matter: HoV will keep on truckin’ regardless.
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Most influential people in 2009 in the contemporary artworld
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Harry Blain & Graham Southern
Gallerist - Old school dealers
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