Peggy Talk

 As an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim collection you are involved in telling the public about the museum. Among the many talks we give each month is a talk about Peggy Guggenheim ; her personal life and her importance in the history of modern art. I gave mine on the terrace today during 'Spritz Sunday' when the public can come and get a spritz for free. With the support of some interns I launched into it and hoped that people would listen, eliciting some vague nods of interest along the way. At the end a couple from New York approached me and the woman said, “We wanna thank youw for ya eloquent and beaoootiful speech: we'll go back to New Yooyk with our haaerts warmed” (my attempt at transliterating a thick Brooklyn accent). Her final thank you was lovely, if perhaps untrue:“You're a work of art in yourself”. Job done I think.