Last night, at the opening of Cecilia Alemani’s new Willem de Kooning show at Gagosian, I fell into one of those existential conversations about the state of the art market, and the health of galleries, in particular. The current downturn in art sales has now dragged on for nearly two and a half years, and it’s been tough on everyone in the business. I get fairly regular calls, texts, and emails from folks in the art trade telling me that galleries are behind on their accounts, or about dealers leaving galleries and then suing to collect their sales commissions.