Sean Kelly is a risk-taker and something of a contrarian. It’s a combination that explains a lot about the gallerist’s life and career, not least his decision three decades ago to pick up and leave Bath, England, for New York, where he and his wife, Mary, settled in SoHo—back when the neighborhood was still the city’s art epicenter. Living in a spacious penthouse loft, they raised their two now-adult children, while Kelly ran his gallery nearby, before moving it to an off-the-beaten-path block in Chelsea and, later, to an even more unexpected but ultimately prescient location next to what would become Hudson Yards....READ MORE
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