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Article: Strong Economy, Top Location Heat Up Geneva's Art Scene.
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- Art Business News
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- December 1, 2000
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GENEVA, Switzerland--Geneva looks poised to become one of Europe's leading art gallery capitals, indeed a major world art center, if present trends continue. Genevas galleries are being buoyed by the influx of U.S. dollars. The city is also increasingly becoming a refuge for galleries that are having problems making ends meet over the border in France.
"The way things are going," said Emmanuel Grandjean, an arts specialist and writer, "Geneva may soon be playing in the same league as New York."
Geneva, which in the not-so-distant past was considered a cultural backwater, with many galleries pulling up stakes to move elsewhere, has recently become an ...