"There's a Warhol behind you."
"I seldom did installations that have so many works,"
"It's so full. It's over the top."
"Different galleries have approached me about doing work with them, but it didn't feel organic or necessary,"
Mary Boone, 73, curated 'Downtown/Uptown' at Lévy Gorvy Dayan, a show focused on the spark of the 1980s New York art scene. The exhibition fills two floors with works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ross Bleckner, Keith Haring, Barbara Kruger, Julian Schnabel, Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol and others. Gallery staff prepared era-appropriate British New Wave music and handled artworks carefully during installation. Boone ran eponymous uptown and downtown galleries for a combined 40 years and closed them in 2019 after a 30-month federal prison sentence for tax fraud. This exhibition is her first formal curation since release five years ago. Boone wore a leopard-print Norma Kamali dress bought in 1981.
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