warhol, and moving on to other works like jean-michel basquiat. it began in 1998 when tech billionaire mitch rales who is now 62 had a near death experience. >> i was in a pretty traumatic accident in russia. everything that i had the helicopter, and i came back a ballec tt i w on. go change course of my li >> reporter: seven years later in new york, rales, who was divorced, met emily wei, a young and influential curator 20 years his junior. she agreed to help him launch glenstone. so at what point did you decide that you were both not just in love with art, but in love with each other? >> oh, that, it was kind of love at first sight. >> yeah, we -- we hit it off pretty quickly. >> reporter: they were married in 2008, and emily rales helped interest her husband in a new generation of artists. then you walk into this. this chamber was specifically designed to hold a mammoth and mysterious work by robert gober. >> there is a sort of erie and slightly sinister feeling to being in a forest, but also in jail surrounded by water that is probably not fit