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One Fine Show: “Peggy Guggenheim in London, The Making of a Collector”

Long before she became one of the 20th Century's most celebrated collectors, she ran a small gallery on a London side street. This show celebrates her brief stint as an art dealer.

Galleries have been having a tough time, in the primary art market and in the press. How my colleagues report on their closures with such glee! In defense of these reporters, many of these galleries wrote their own ends by overextending themselves, opening far-flung branches to stage exhibitions that they knew to be retrograde. But in their purest form galleries are a necessary part of the avant-garde. They’re private businesses that take a risk on artists because they believe their voices will resonate with those rare collectors who are able to see the future.

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