Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Horton Gallery (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. – bradv  🍁  03:27, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Horton Gallery
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Questionable notability, was nominated once before and consensus was to delete. A lot of references are shown, but these are for artists rather than the gallery itself (which is itself misleading and possibly a bad faith effort to make it appear that there is plenty of coverage of the actual gallery when there really isn't). There doesn't seem to be much in the way of reliable secondary sources and possibly not enough to justify an article. At best, this is going to be stuck as a stub. Mansheimer (talk) 11:22, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
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 * Note to closer for soft deletion: While this discussion appears to have no quorum, it is NOT eligible for soft deletion because it was previously discussed at AfD and the result was delete. --Cewbot (talk) 00:03, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Barkeep49 (talk) 15:31, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete The article has been refbombed, the list of references is currently larger than the text of the article, most of which are not relevant to the criteria for establishing notability. The criteria for establishing notability for companies/organizations as per WP:NCORP is for multiple sources (at least two) of significant coverage with in-depth information *on the company* and (this bit is important!) containing "Independent Content". "Independent content", in order to count towards establishing notability, must include original and independent opinion, analysis, investigation, and fact checking that are clearly attributable to a source unaffiliated to the subject. None of the references in the article meet the criteria, either relying on coverage of exhibitions or artists (failing CORPDEPTH), mentions in passing or Primary and having searched I am unable to locate any references that meet the criteria. Topic fails GNG/WP:NCORP.  HighKing++ 19:32, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete I went through all the sources to see if there was any material about the gallery beyond a mere mention. This is what I found: SEAN HORTON (presents)  nothing we hope to get there sometime this week to open Community Action Center @ Horton Gallery. https://observer.com/2011/06/l-e-s-gallery-expands-to-berlin/ - 100% about subject dead link “Sun Screen,” an exhibition of Tichý’s work, is on view until September 10, 2011 at the Horton Gallery in New York City. nothing dead link nothing Horton Gallery, 504 West 22nd Street nothing nothing nothing  In his New York solo debut at the recently opened gallery Horton & Liu, Michael Berryhill does both.  dead linkdead link Kirk Hayes’s paintings at Horton Gallery occupy a realm somewhere between the trompe-l’œil earnestness of William Harnett’s hyperrealistically rendered sheets of paper in The Artist’s Letter Rack (1879) and the tragicomic sumptuousness of the bulbous-headed smoker lying about in Philip Guston’s 1973 Stationary Figure (both pictures are on view at the Met).  nothing Touch’d Lustre, Grill’s first show at Zieher Smith & Horton, presents eight oil-on-linen paintings, all completed in 2015.  Zieher Smith & Horton in Chelsea is now showing nine of her contemplative abstract paintings, medium-scale works with floaty, interwoven patterns, shapes and marks in palettes that range from misty pale greens and lemon yellows to pulsing reds. The title of Zieher Smith & Horton’s two-man exhibition of David Byrd and Peter Gallo, “The Patients and the Doctors,” is taken from a fiery 1947 work by the poet-mental patient Antonin Artaud.  nothing Zieher Smith & Horton 516 West 20th Street Horton & Company 504 West 22nd Street, Chelsea The galleries Zieher Smith and Sean Horton joined forces last year, doubling their abilities to find young or underexposed talent. Along with Canada, Sean Horton has earned his place as a poster boy for the Lower East Side gallery movement. After some time spent in Boston, where we first met, Sean went to New York and worked with Nick Lawrence before opening Horton Gallery. Sean loves painting, and he has an extraordinary eye for picking emerging talent. His star, Keltie Ferris, may have left recently, but his program continues to be one of the freshest in New York. C. Sean Horton, a founder of Chelsea’s Freight and Volume gallery, opened his own shop last fall.  The gallery, which, according to its owner, Clayton Sean Horton, focuses on “periphery” and “overlooked” artists, has been open since October 2006. Its current exhibition focuses on Royal Robertson, a Louisiana folk artist who died in 1997, and Hilary Baldwin, a New York sculptor. Never heard of them? Exactly.There is just the article in the Observer that is actually about the subject, but that's one source. Vexations (talk) 21:34, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Yup, except the Observer reference is an announcement by the owner, fails WP:ORGIND.  HighKing++ 22:04, 23 November 2020 (UTC)


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