“They were the smartest kids on the block,” said Douglas Eklund, who curated the “Pictures Generation” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2009 and subsequently cemented the gallery’s place in history. And like his colleagues at Metro Pictures, Mr. Eklund is also stepping down from a position of power. After more than 26 years, he resigned from his curatorial role at the Met last week, departing with one last exhibition — “Pictures, Revisited” — intended as a sequel to his 2009 show. It was a similar feeling at Metro Pictures, where after four decades, the gallery founders decided to call it quits. (Around the same time, the dealer Gavin Brown announced that he was joining Gladstone Gallery as a partner and closing his own business.)

Source: New York Times March 08, 2021 05:26 UTC