The alchemists
{ It was just another day at the Gap, the clothing chain, where for many years much of the extraordinary art collection of the company’s founders, Don and Doris Fisher, has been hidden away in these ground-floor rooms. Although the collection includes more than 1,100 works, mostly from the 1960s on, they have been seen by relatively few people: Gap employees, the occasional museum tour group and those in the upper echelons of the art world who have the right connections. News media coverage has always been tightly restricted, and Mr. Fisher, who directed the Gap for more than 40 years until his death at 81 last September, refused to give interviews about his holdings for most of that time. | NY Times | Continue reading }
