Curator, art historian, and writer Judith Stein speaks on Richard Bellamy, counter-cultural NYC art dealer & inadvertent midwife to today's art market.

Eye of the Sixties, Judith Stein’s biography of the New York art dealer Richard Bellamy (1927-98), illuminated the birth of today’s market for contemporary art, for which Bellamy was its inadvertent midwife. (Read the Introduction to the book here.) An unconventional, bi-racial Midwesterner with counter-cultural values, he launched the careers of most of the iconic artists of the sixties during the five-year lifespan of his fabled Green Gallery (1960-65). “There was no one like him,” said his better-known colleague, Leo Castelli.

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