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

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