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Article: Angry Art Dealer Schachter Builds West Village 'Bilbao'.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- September 9, 2002
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Byline: Elisabeth Franck
Forty-year-old art dealer Kenny Schachter took in the Spartan splendor of his new Greenwich Village art gallery and smiled an infectious smile. Uptown in Chelsea, and on the East Side, things were looking grim. From Mr. Schachter's perspective, the mood reminded him of the early 90's, when scores of galleries went bankrupt and hundreds of artists changed careers.
And yet, for a guy who just spent a few hundred thousand to build a custom-designed gallery space--in his home, no less--the clean-cut and bespectacled Mr. Schachter seemed energized by the bad juju he felt would soon hang over the art world.
"When there are no ...