The Nineties: don't look back in anger

Is it too soon to consign the 1990s to history? It is a question that many dealers coming to Frieze London might ask. It was the era in which numerous galleries that dominate the art world todayfrom Sadie Coles in London to Gavin Browns Enterprise in New York and Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlincame to prominence. As Gregor Muir, the outgoing director of the ICA in London and a prominent writer and curator in the 1990s London scene, says: People are shocked that the 1990s is entering art histor