From left to right: David Norr, Mónica Manzutto, Chiara Repetto, James Cohan, Stefania Bortolami, Anton Kern, Andrew Kreps, Jane Cohan and José Kuri. Photo by Ashley Markle.
In a spirit of cooperation, six midsize art galleries are extending their reach beyond Manhattan with the purchase of a sprawling abandoned school in Columbia County, NY, that will be inaugurated as a new exhibition platform called the Campus on June 29.
The galleries Bortolami, James Cohan, Kaufmann Repetto, Anton Kern, Andrew Kreps and Kurimanzutto pooled their resources to buy the low-slung 78,000-square-foot Ockawamick School and its surrounding 22 acres in Claverack.
The property is outside Hudson, which has become a mini-Mecca for art and design, and joins a host of homegrown galleries and other contemporary art institutions in the region. The School, a museum-size extension of Jack Shainman’s gallery spaces in Manhattan, and the nonprofit Art Omi center are both in Columbia County. Sullivan County includes newcomers such as the nonprofit Catskill Art Space and the artist Bosco Sodi’s exhibition space Assembly.
—Laura van Straaten, The New York Times