Canvas & Consequence

The Mob Boss Who Accidentally Launched Abstract Art

Episode Summary

Before Peggy Guggenheim became the queen of modern art, she was a bored heiress looking for trouble in 1930s Paris. Her legendary gallery didn't just showcase Pollock and Picasso—it was funded by dubious money, built on petty rivalries, and somehow saved European modernism from Nazi destruction through sheer stubborn spite.