Vito Schnabel and Rene Ricard were lifelong friends. They met in New York in the early 1990s, when Schnabel was 17 and began taking art-history classes with the revered poet and painter. Together they visited some of the country’s great museums—the Met, the National Portrait Gallery, and, a favorite of Ricard’s, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in his native Boston. It was there that young Schnabel first began thinking seriously about opening a gallery. Ricard died in 2014, but his work—raw, diaristic, and deeply entwined with the downtown New York art scene—endures. For the gallery’s 10th anniversary in Saint-Moritz, Schnabel is presenting art by Ricard that dates from 1989 to 2011. —Elena Clavarino
Meanwhile, don’t miss the Ron Gorchov exhibition next door, which features another longtime acquaintance of Schnabel’s.