When I started studying art history in college, I was riding on the high of seeing the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the first time when I was 16. Voraciously digging deeper into the art world and personalities surrounding the glamorous and revered works of 20th century art that I had seen there, I encountered the figure of Peggy Guggenheim. I immediately wanted to be her, a savvy collector and curator of important surrealist and abstract expressionist art who created a culture of reception for these works and did it with style, mingling with the icons of Modernism across Europe.
It wasn’t until I was well into grad school that I found out that she inherited over 2 million dollars (equivalent to something like 30 million today) upon turning 19, which was almost certainly the determining factor in being able to do any of the above. I still hold some affection for her – her autobiography is a wild ride – but now, as an emerging curator newly armed with a degree and a thesis on displaying videogames, I’ve had to adjust my freshman year goals and expectations, to put it lightly. So maybe the free-to-play massively multiplayer gallery simulator Occupy White Walls is for someone like me?
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