#gallery-closures

#gallery-closures

Stephen Friedman was overdue filing when he went into liquidation on 2 February, closing his London gallery immediately (his New York venue shuttered around the same date). At the time of writing, invoices remain unpaid and artists unable to retrieve works from storage companies. In a statement, Friedman says 'all matters are now subject to the administrator's consideration'.

"What's happened now is that the galleries have a cost problem, but it's not really related to their space," Rappaport says. "People aren't buying art from galleries."

There is a lot happening at the de Young this month. The " Art of Manga " opened last weekend. Mission Local wrote about four fans or experts who caught the manga mania. "It's the future visual language," said the curator Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere. "Manga is already in textbooks in Japan. The images are carrying the content. It goes to another part of your brain. At the end of the exhibition, you will be fluent in manga."