Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Louise Alexander Gallery


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The result was delete. BD2412 T 22:59, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Louise Alexander Gallery

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Doesn't appear to pass notability guidelines for organizations. Lack of significant coverage in publications that have vast audience. It shows up in "things to do" lists among other things, but it's not what I'd call significant coverage about the organization. Graywalls (talk) 06:42, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
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 *  Keep . Aesthetica magazine writes "The Louise Alexander Gallery in Sardinia presents Arik Levy’s first solo show at the gallery.". Galleries generally are not written about in reviews of exhibitions held under the auspices of galleries, but reviews should tend to establish notability for galleries. If the gallery has a track record of exhibitions from 2007 to the present, this should allow us to know the gallery is notable. Bus stop (talk) 18:55, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
 * This is a trivial coverage about the gallery. It doesn't show indepth, truly independent secondary coverage as used for organizations notability. The source you referenced, from June 2014 says "Arik Levy, Uncontrolled Nature, until 29 August, Louise Alexander Gallery, Via del Porto Vecchio 1, 07021, Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy, www.louise-alexander.com.", so this seems to be a mere event announcement that was meant to be temporary. So this is routine announcements like auto repair shop repaired cars... or event venue held events. The latter is almost guaranteed to have internet visible list of events that doesn't necessarily mean notability of the venue. Graywalls (talk) 19:30, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
 * You could call it an "event announcement" but it is also coverage of an art exhibition held under the auspices of the Louise Alexander Gallery. Yes, the event was "temporary". The Aesthetica magazine article is dated 26 June 2014 and exhibition only ran until 29 August. But this is entirely in keeping with what art galleries typically do—they run shows sequentially. One art exhibition ends, another art exhibition begins. You say "this is routine announcements like auto repair shop repaired cars". This might be the case but more than likely is not the case. Automobiles are expected to be practical entities, and they usually are. Art is usually not expected to serve any practical purpose. Art falls into the category of art for reasons that can be difficult to discern. Notability for art galleries should be determined by the length of time there is a track record for art exhibitions. Has the Louise Alexander Gallery been exhibiting art since 2007? If so, that is a more than ample track record for the purposes of establishing notability. Reliable sources don't typically address art galleries themselves but this does not mean that art galleries cannot be notable. Bus stop (talk) 21:22, 1 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete The subject, per their own website, represents * Ryan Mosley


 * Marco Tirelli


 * Enrique Martinez Celaya


 * mentalKLINIK


 * Folkert de Jong


 * Arik Levy


 * Barry X Ball


 * Salomon Huerta


 * Guy Bourdin


 * Vladimir Dubossarsky


 * Laurent Bolognini


 * Sarah Conaway


 * Anthony James (artist)


 * Melanie Schiff
 * Ideally, what I would see in a notable gallery is that their a substantial portion of their roster is notable, and that it can be established that the gallery contributed in some way to the artists' development. I'm not sure I see that here. Another problem is what to write: due to the lack of sources, there isn't much we can say about it. The New York Times tells us that the gallery in Porto Cervo is presenting works by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Roy Lichtenstein. Note that the gallery does not represent these artists' estates. They operate in the secondary market, they buy and resell. They don't have a relationship with these artists. They had, unlike Stable Gallery, Annina Nosei and Leo Castelli, nothing to do with the careers of these artists. Vexations (talk) 21:50, 1 December 2019 (UTC)


 * I don't think it matters much whether their roster is notable or not. In fact I think notability is established more by a non-notable roster. But I agree that operating solely in the secondary market, buying and selling, is not in itself a strong indicator of notability. And I agree that not having a relationship with the artists whose work is shown is not a strong indicator of notability. And I agree that galleries that discover new artists or help launch the careers of artists are galleries that may establish notability for the gallery by doing this. Bus stop (talk) 22:13, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , do you think you can find reviews of the exhibitions in independent sources? Vexations (talk) 23:22, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
 * No, therefore reluctantly delete. Bus stop (talk) 02:13, 2 December 2019 (UTC)


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