I can agree with Picard when she says that both professional and apartment galleries need to happen.
Apartment galleries, or rather galleries that mix the private and public spheres, are necessary to our current art world as I see it. We need a way for people from all walks of life to see art, and like Picard says, it is good to have avenues of displaying or viewing art available for "other artists, art enthusiasts, and... the uninitiated." This smaller, more intimate world of private homes hosting art seems like it can bridge people into the art world who don't have big-name connections or anything. It, for itself, removes the elitism from the section of the art world concerned with galleries. From something fantastical and near impossible to achieve (or something more akin to museum galleries, with 'famous artists') into something that is now attainable, easy, and even trendy.
Spaces that are entirely public spaces need to happen as well. Professional-level galleries are good for the art world because we need a level on the sphere that most people will recognize, especially art collectors and high-brow people who will buy and fuel the art market, or people who have little involvement with the art world.
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