LETTER: Art gallery story was misleading
Mary Corrigall’s essay ‘The Bigger Picture’, does your readers and the art market a disservice and is, frankly, laughable
I have always admired Mary Corrigall for her ability to reinvent herself from critic, to journalist, to consultant, and sometimes all three at the same time. However, her essay "The Bigger Picture" (Cover Story, May 7-13) (https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/cover-story/2020-05-07-mary-corrigall-the-bigger-picture/), does your readers and the art market a disservice and is, frankly, laughable.
I cannot speak for the other galleries she writes about, but with respect to our group of galleries, her glib opinion of which galleries will survive Covid-19 because "they are less reliant on art fairs to reach European collectors" is in direct contradiction to her own supposedly authoritative "SA Art Market Report", released in December 2019. In that report she acknowledges the very same galleries as regularly participating in international fairs, a trait she thought elevated them to the top of the pile, while it was a black mark in her book that Everard Read did not participate...
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