“I’m very sorry that Metro is closing,” Cooper said. “They have been such a fine, strong, straight gallery — no fooling around. “The long-term strategy was to remain ‘a gentleman art dealer.’” The mega gallery was never her model. Her now more varied roster still has a strong Conceptual strain. Adam D. Weinberg, the director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, said that Ms. Cooper’s lineup has a “cerebral cast of mind, but not aridly so.”

Source: New York Times April 16, 2021 09:01 UTC