One night in November, a procession of young artists, critics and curators climbed the creaky stairs of a building in Chinatown in Lower Manhattan to attend an opening at a buzzy little gallery, Ulrik. The show, Bettina: New York 196586, was made up of rarely seen photographs and sculptures by an enigmatic artist who lived for five decades at the fabled Chelsea Hotel, where she created her works in a cluttered fifth-floor apartment until her death in 2021.
The gallerists Alex Fleming, left, and Anya Komar are hoping to shift the focus of the legend of Bettina as bohemian recluse to her body of work as an artist.Credit...James Estrin/The New York Times
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