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Surviving and thriving: having weathered the dot-com boom and bust of the late 1990s, the Bay Area's art community is going strong, its museums and galleries keeping pace with a wealth of innovative emerging artists. (Report From San Francisco).
Art in America
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November 1, 2002|
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The 1990s belonged to San Francisco, epicenter of the dot-com frenzy that held the nation in its grasp. The city was flush with new wealth and a bottomless well of optimism.
But perhaps nowhere more than San Francisco did the excess of the dot-com years have such mixed results. Many existing small businesses were choked out by the kudzulike growth of the new economy. Despite the largesse directed toward a number of art institutions, most notably the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which made an unprecedented number of acquisitions, the city's art community was ...
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