These are edited excerpts from conversations with eight artists who have shown with Goodman, and with Christophe Cherix, the director of the Museum of Modern Art.
Christophe Cherix first encountered Marian Goodman’s gallery when she was selling multiple editions by artists like Robert Smithson and Andy Warhol. In 2016, he co-curated a retrospective of her artist Broodthaers at MoMA.
What I thought was always striking was the fact that she had this sense of awe, this sense of wonder, for practices that for many seemed very dry, very difficult, very intellectual. Marian approached them in a very humane way.
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More important, her artists say, she never lost sight of why she, and they, fell in love with art in the first place. Asked to share their memories, they all emphasized Goodman’s unusual devotion to conversation, to ideas, to the creative process — and to them.
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藝術明星紀念傳奇"管家"瑪麗安古德曼
更重要的是，她的藝術家們說，她從未忘記自己和他們最初愛上藝術的初心。當被問及回憶時，他們都強調了古德曼對交流、對思想、對創作過程以及對他們的非凡投入。
“人們對她懷有一種深深的敬意，”畫家朱莉·梅雷圖說道，“但你也能感受到，所有與她共事的藝術家都深受她的尊重。這是一種非常獨特的氛圍。”
“There was a kind of deep respect for her,” the painter Julie Mehretu said, “but what you also felt was that everyone felt deeply respected by her, all of the artists that worked with her. That was a very unique dynamic.”
Julie Mehretu, a MacArthur award-winning painter whose intricately layered abstract paintings meld history and politics, joined the Goodman gallery in 2013.
After Documenta [a world summit of contemporary art in Kassel, Germany] in 1997, I had a letter from Marian saying would I join the gallery. I’d never heard of her, I was in Johannesburg. But I asked about and people said, “Are you crazy? People would give their eye teeth to be in that gallery!" And that started a 25-year connection to Marian.
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