When you spent millions of dollars on art, the art comes to you

East Hampton, NY (iStock)
East Hampton, NY (iStock)

Billionaire customers of Manhattan’s most expensive art galleries are having their art practically hand-delivered to their Hamptons bunkers. Two blue-chip galleries based on the Upper East Side have opened neighboring spaces on Newtown Lane in East Hampton, according to Bloomberg. Sotheby’s private sales group also rented a space next door. The coronavirus lockdown spurred an exodus of wealthy New Yorkers from the city to the Hamptons and many are sticking around for a while. David Schrader with Sotheby’s said that “no one” was coming to the art dealer’s building on York Avenue in the city. “So we thought: ‘why don’t we bring what we have to where the people are?” [Bloomberg] — Dennis Lynch

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