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There is something distinctly isolating about competing with your peers for one of the few, underpaid curatorial positions or a spot in a coveted residency, or silently begrudging the sold-out booth next to yours at an art fair. Just a few miles southeast of Hudson, The Campus, an abandoned high school-turned-art exhibition space shared by six New York City galleries, proposes something of a salve: camaraderie, with shared profits to boot. Several hundred people — over 2,500, by some estimates — poured into the 78,000-square-foot building this past Saturday, June 29, for an overcast opening event marking the first and untitled show, curated by Timo Kappeller.
Continuing the spirit of cooperation, a section of the space was given over to NXTHVN, the Connecticut nonprofit founded by artists Titus Kaphar, Jason Price, and Jonathan Brand, to display works by seven of its Studio Fellows selected by Curatorial Fellows Marquita Flowers and Clare Patrick. “I think this culture can be very one-against-the other,” Chiara Repetto, co-owner of Kaufmann Repetto gallery in Tribeca, told Hyperallergic at the opening. “It’s mors .
