Episode 1 - Doug Garr

Welcome to Art Lovers Forum. 

 

 

Today I will be speaking to Doug Garr, a friend of mine who has spent 40-plus years as a journalist, editor, author, blogger, ghostwriter and speechwriter.  Doug is the guy who helped New York Governor Mario Cuomo sound so good at the mic. If that’s not astonishing enough, Doug is also an active skydiver with an expert license rating of 2,200 jumps. 

 

One day I will interview Doug about his life as a dare devil. Today I want him to tell us all about his connection to art. 

 

He was married for nearly 42 years to the late Meg Perlman, a prominent art curator. Everyone in the art world knew her. Most knew Doug too because he accompanied Meg to art events around the world. Meg was the founding director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton, N.Y. She also worked at the Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Meg was the director of the James Brooks and Charlotte Parks Brooks Foundation.  Meg also served as the curator of a number of important private art collections, including those of William A.M. Burden, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III, Sandra Rockefeller Ferry, Senator and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller IV, and the Pierre Noel Matisse Trust, among others.