Artist Peter McGough Makes Being Stuck in His Apartment a Story to Live

The original article was posted by The Cut on April 2, 2020.

Peter McGough is an eclectic man, living in an entirely different era, almost all but ignoring our current decade. A creative genius of the arts from his style to his words, McGough published a memoir last fall, I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980’s

And he’s not kidding. Currently residing in a modernized Manhattan apartment erected in the 1930’s, McGough has created a living sculpture of what life would have been like living in his West Village tenement nearly 100 years ago. Not only has he uniquely and historically decorated the Christopher Street apartment, but he has also created his own fictitious fantasy of how he would have lived there a century ago, and it’s that fantasy that keeps McGough going through the monotony of his days being stuck inside as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.

In the article featured on The Cut, McGough is quite frank with his current situation, “I don’t mind being alone. I like it,” says artist Peter McGough from his West Village apartment, where he is quarantined along with his dog, Queenie. “I have my books. I have all sorts of things to keep me occupied.