Article: The trouble with Christian. (Whatever Happened to).(Christian Leigh)(Biography)

For a six-year run beginning in 1987, CHRISTIAN LEIGH was one of the most visible--and ambitious--independent curators in the international art world. Then he vanished. ALEXI WORTH looks back on an enigmatic impresario of many guises whose disappearance remains as mysterious as Leigh himself.

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In the mid-'90s, around the time that Christian Leigh went underground, or vanished, or worse (the more lurid versions of the story pictured him at the bottom of a Venetian canal), a curious fax began circulating through New York galleries. At the time, Leigh was a familiar figure in the art world--the most flamboyant of the independent curators who had ...

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