<a id="by-richard-prince"></a> ## By Richard Prince, a Photograph of Brooke Shields by Gary Gross Prince claims he decided to open his own gallery and that he “hired a woman to beard the place” after Metro Pictures dropped Prince from its rosters over the eponymous photograph. Kimberly Fine had previously worked at the Museum of Modern Art’s membership desk and at Time Inc., where she met Prince; she recalls swapping Time shifts with Prince and an encounter with Alfred Stieglitz’s *Spiritual America* that inspired her to christen the shell gallery after the 1923 image. Fine received cease‑and‑desist threats by phone from attorney Richard Golub (then representing photographer Gary Gross) shortly before the inaugural opening. In a 2022 interview, Fine stated that Prince left New York for several weeks and that pro bono counsel later advised, after which viewing continued, by appointment, out of her ground‑floor residence between Bowery and Christie St. On his blog, Prince accounted for the artist’s proof of *By Richard Prince, A photograph of Brooke Shields, By Gary Gross* rendered in lieu of $150 to a drummer‑plumber in exchange for fixing his toilet.