Final thoughts

If you go to Asia, if you go to China, if you talk to gallerists there, the gallery might run the gallery, a foundation, a freight handling company, a residency program, and maybe an interior design company. And in the West we go "this is crazy," because only one of the five things this gallery is doing is actually being a gallerist. And this kind of diversification, of fluidity in doing business that is so foreign to us, is common all over Asia. And it works because they don't have to rely on one single thing to cross-fund what it is they're doing.