What Comes After Grow-or-Go? How Goodman Gallery Changed Course
Goodman Gallery, founded in Johannesburg in 1966 by Linda Givon and now led by owner Liza Essers (since 2008), has restructured amid a prolonged art-market downturn after costs began rising faster than revenue. The gallery, with spaces in Cape Town, London, and New York and a roster including El Anatsui, Shirin Neshat, William Kentridge, and Carrie Mae Weems, cut fairs, reduced its roster, and invested in new business lines. It is launching a new digital platform ahead of Art Basel, where it will show works including a monumental wooden relief by Anatsui and a Yinka Shonibare sculpture priced at £500,000 ($670,000). The article situates Goodman’s pivot alongside broader retrenchment across the sector, citing recent cuts at Pace, Templon’s closure of its Chelsea branch, and the shutdown of Brussels’s Dépendance after 23 years.
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