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Whatever love of art I felt shriveled in comparison to the bewildering feeling that I was woefully uninformed and thus doing it wrong.

My first trip to galleries in Chelsea left me with the distinct impression I’d wandered into a private party by mistake. Pretension hung in the air like an unacknowledged fart, and at each show, I felt two tattoos and a master’s degree short of fitting in