1988, Stux entered into a collaboration with Leo Castelli Gallery for a dual-exhibition of new work by the Starns. When the international art market as a whole foundered in the early 1990s, the gallery ultimately closed its operations on Spring Street. After that closure in 1993, as Stux engaged in lower-overhead private, secondary market dealing for several years. Piss Christ controversy In 1987, the gallery first exhibited Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ, which subsequently became the focus of major public controversy as a flash point in the “culture wars”, because it had been produced with partial support from a grant funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. The photograph—which features a plastic crucifix suspended in a plexiglass tank of the artist’s own urine—was cited for blasphemy by the fundamentalist American Family Association, and subsequently denounced in the U.S. Senate by Jesse Helms and Alphonse D’Amato. New York 1996-present In 1996, Stux reopened on 20th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan. There, the gallery continued to introduce more young talent such as Inka Essenhigh, and began to show internationally established artists such as Dennis Oppenheim, Mark Kostabi and Orlan, and mid-career artists including James Croak and Margaret Evangeline as well. In 2002, Andrea Schnabl joined the gallery as a new Partner and Director. In 2004, the gallery moved once again into a larger ground floor space at 530 W. 25th Street. Its roster of international artists has since expanded to include Nigerian sculptor Sokari Douglas Camp, CBE, photographer Ruud van Empel of the Netherlands, painter Thordis Adalsteinsdottir of Iceland, Iraqi photographer Halim Al Karim and Japanese photographer Manabu Yamanaka, multi media conceptual German artists Gia Edzgveradze and Heide Hatry and leading contemporary Chinese artists Wei Dong and Zhang Xiaotao, among others. In the Spring of 2014, Stux Gallery relocated uptown to the historic 57th Street district, renowned for the birth of early American modernism in fine art, occupying an expansive 4,000 sq. foot space on the 6th floor of the noted New York Gallery Building at 24 West 57th Street near Fifth Avenue, neighboring the Marian Goodman Gallery’s 3rd and 4th floor domain. In the summer of 2017 Stux Gallery opened Salon STUX West in a historic townhouse on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Stux Gallery regularly participates in significant art fairs and in collaborations with galleries and curators in the U.S. and abroad. References Further reading Charles Giuliano, Berkshire Fine Arts. 1980 establishments