True Confessions of a Justified Art Dealer, Part Eight: My $500,000 Mistake
Previous entries in Mesler’s column are here. In February 2017
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True Confessions of a Justified Art Dealer, Part Seven: Go East, No Longer Young Man
Our memoirist returns after a year-and-a-half break. You can read his previous entries here. I spent a good 25 years using drugs and alcohol to get by. It’s the same old story: A neurotic…
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True Confessions of a Justified Art Dealer Part Six: The Metaphor Delivered
In the summer of 2009, in the middle of a global recession, I opened a show at Rental, my gallery on New York’s Lower East Side, called “Don’t Panic I’m Selling My Collection.” As it turned…
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True Confessions of a Justified Art Dealer, Part Five: Goodbye to All That
For two years after I opened Rental Gallery in L.A.’s Chinatown, I never left my two-block kingdom in the neighborhood because I didn’t have to. Back then, in the mid-aughts, everyone wanted…
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True Confessions of a Justified Art Dealer, Part Four: Up All Night in the Dream Factory
I‘d been an art dealer in Los Angeles for three years when I decided I’d had enough and got a job working the bar at Hop Louie, a neighborhood establishment in Chinatown. After Sinky, the
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True Confessions of a Justified Art Dealer, Part Three: Downhill All the Way
The first real crossover art celebrity to come out of Los Angeles’s Chinatown was Eric Wesley, who showed at China Art Objects. The gallery’s owner, Giovanni Intra, was selling Wesley’s…
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True Confessions of a Justified Art Dealer, Part Two: Forget It, Joel. It’s Chinatown.
This is the second part in a recurring column. You can read part one here. Giovanni Intra started China Art Objects in 1998 with Steve Hanson, who still runs the gallery, now in Culver…
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True Confessions of a Justified Art Dealer, Part One: Safe and Warm in L.A.
Not long after I graduated with an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute, Ella King Torrey, the school’s president during my time there, hanged herself in her house without leaving a note…
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