Rachel Teo: The Micro Initiator
By Patricia Chen
I developed a pet peeve during the first months of Covid-19: articles about art collectors. Do these conversations—which often sounded detached from the realities and needs of this ailing world—matter? It got me thinking: how can an art patron be relevant in the time of Covid-19? This was the question I had in mind when I visited Rachel Teo, the founder of a nonprofit organization called The Private Museum (TPM) in Singapore.