TIM NYE, the bon vivant, Park Avenue heir and Chelsea gallery owner, has a theory about art openings. “You’ve got to do something that makes them say ‘Wow.’ ”
By that standard, the festivities for Swell, a three-gallery exhibition on surfing-inspired art that opened last month, lived up to expectations.
Mr. Nye is not your usual scion of a New York real estate fortune, going about town, quietly sprinkling money around art fairs and museum boards. He has always tended to make big professional statements. In the 1990s, he earned millions of his own, as a high-flying dot-com entrepreneur, when the Web was in its unprofitable infancy.
Looking back, Mr. Nye said that he spread himself too thin — a lesson he is now trying to apply to his gallery. Until recently, for example, he curated each show as a one-off, reflecting his enthusiasm of the day, rather than cultivating a stable of artists.
Read the whole story at The New York Times, by Alex Williams
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