--- title: 2019_Feldman_NYT_Haigney date: 2019-10-25T11:35:00-04:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-feldman-nyt-haigney" section: News --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) Ronald Feldman Gallery Ronald Feldman, Risk-taking Gallerist, Retires After Nearly 50 Years The New York TImes Oct 24, 2019 Ronald Feldman, the pioneering contemporary art dealer, has stepped down from his role of director at the [Ronald Feldman Gallery](https://feldmangallery.com/) after nearly 50 years at the helm, for health reasons. Mr. Feldman, 82, founded the gallery with his wife, Frayda Feldman, in 1971 on East 74th Street. In 1982, the gallery moved to SoHo, establishing an early beachhead in Lower Manhattan that seemed to suit an institution that broke boundaries and championed a wide range of risk-taking artists and their (often political) works. Some of his early partnerships included the German conceptual artist [Joseph Beuys](https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/25/obituaries/joseph-beuys-sculptor-is-dead-at-64.html?module=inline), the performance artist [Chris Burden](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/arts/chris-burden-a-conceptualist-with-scars-dies-at-69.html?module=inline), the feminist artist Hannah Wilke, and [Mierle Laderman Ukeles](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/arts/design/mierle-laderman-ukeles-new-york-city-sanitation-department.html?module=inline), the longtime unpaid artist-in-residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation. He and Ms. Feldman also developed a friendship with Andy Warhol in the 1980s, and Mr. Feldman commissioned Warhol to do portfolios of paintings and prints. **[Read more here.](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/arts/design/ronald-feldman-gallerist-retires.html)** [**View PDF here.**](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/2019_Ronald-Feldman_NYT_Haigney.pdf) Related News & Press Oct 09, 2019 [ ![Wilke Force Of Nature Installation View 3](/assets/exhibition_images/Wilke-Force-Of-Nature-Installation-View-3.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-wilke-the-new-yorker-fateman) Oct 09, 2019 The New Yorker [Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) [Goings on About Town: Hannah Wilke, Feldman](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-wilke-the-new-yorker-fateman) Oct 13, 2019 [ Counter-Landscapes: Performative Actions from the 1970s – Now ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-antin-city-sun-times-staff) Oct 13, 2019 City Sun Times [Eleanor Antin](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/eleanor-antin) [SMoCA Announces 24 Artists in Fall Exhibition](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-antin-city-sun-times-staff) Oct 09, 2019 [ ![Drawing For Protest Black Power Wave By Oasa Du Verney 5D9F46F057Ada](/assets/exhibition_images/Drawing_for_Protest_Black_Power_Wave_by_Oasa_DuVerney.5d9f46f057ada_191012_163652.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-solmi-city-paper-sarappo) Oct 09, 2019 Washington City Paper [Federico Solmi](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) [VisArts' Parallels and Peripheries: Migration and Mobility Meditates on Crossing Borders](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-solmi-city-paper-sarappo) Sep 24, 2019 [ Research findings are rarely black and white but this one is a genuine exception. ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-strebe-financial-times-ahuja) Sep 24, 2019 Financial Times [Diemut Strebe](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/diemut-strebe) [Science sets out to conquer the contested art of darkness](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-strebe-financial-times-ahuja) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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