Longevity<\/p>\n
At age 17, Cooper already knew that she wanted, in her words, \u2018to help artists.\u2019 Her mother was an amateur painter, and Cooper spent her late teens seeing as much art as possible in Paris and beyond. In her 20s she learned the trade working in galleries. Many colleagues and artists have noted her singularity of vision and the \u2018firmness\u2019 of her personality.<\/p>\n
Even amid choppier waters, Paula Cooper Gallery was \u2018never, ever\u2019 on the brink of closing. Broad economic downturns such as the stock market crash in 1987 barely registered, the gallerist has said, because the business was lean and nimble. For one of her senior partners, Steve Henry, a consistent thread has been the gallery\u2019s \u2018belief in the radical, however one defines that.\u2019 Cooper has often risked the unknown and promoted the avant-garde, always encouraging artistic evolution over mere production. Another thread might be patience \u2013 she understands that markets ebb and flow, as do the conditions of artists\u2019 lives. Cooper has also made it a mission, she says, to \u2018help people see things differently, open their minds, infuse their lives with a wholeness, at least while looking at a particular work of art \u2013 to work magic of a sort.\u2019 In 2022 in The New York Times, M.H. Miller wrote that the gallery\u2019s longevity was due to \u2018some combination of integrity, taste, and sheer willpower.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longevity At age 17, Cooper already knew that she wanted, in her words, \u2018to help artists.\u2019 Her mother…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,438,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-501312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}