Artists Reflect on Mary Boones Legacy a Year after Her Prison Sentencing – Artsy

Freire and Boone went on to collaborate on an additional projecta exhibition that stretched from Team to both of Boones New York locationsand they maintained a social relationship.

I love to go to the movies, and Mary Boone, it seems, also loves to go to the movies, Freire said. It was like, why bother going to an art dinner in a boring art restaurant where youve got to whisper because everyone at the other tables works at some other art gallery? We would go to movies on the Upper West Side, on Sunday afternoons, Sunday mornings.

Freire couldnt recall any special, shared cinematic taste between the two of them, but he does have a visceral memory of bringing her to see Michael Hanekes slow-burn thriller Cach (2005) at the New York Film Festival. Theres a point in that movie where someone, seemingly out of nowhere, slits their own throat. And Mary grabbed my armshe has kind of, you know, couture-y nailsand they went right into my arm. I thought to myself, Make a note: Never take Mary Boone to see a scary movie again!

I asked Freire if he thought Boone would make a return to the New York art world once her prison term is up. Somewhat surprisingly, he said nobut not due to any failing on Boones part, nor because of any backlash from the community regarding her financial crimes.

It might just be that Boonewho cut her chops in the high-flying 1980s and became a dashing personality to be reckoned withsimply cant compete in an age where international mega-galleries gobble up artists and estates.

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