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[+] at the MADE Hotel in Manhattan (c) 2024 Sachyn Mital Viewing art engages our minds, emotions, senses, and imagination, boosting our mental health, expanding our world view, and helping to foster empathy necessary to understand and appreciate others and how we relate to our environments. Collecting art underscores that emotional connection, especially when we engage with the artists and their work, observing their creative process and space, and understanding and contextualizing their journey and creations. Collecting art as a philanthropic pursuit, as an investment, or just because we like what we see, has value, as expanding the marketplace helps to support living artists or to preserve legacies.



Regardless of how a collection begins or evolves, its deeper value is intrinsically aligned with the collector’s mission and conviction. While how the biggest collectors move markets may help to advance careers of living artists, provided they are fairly compensated, few transform art history by amplifying the artists through a consummate and comprehensive approach, guided by their own keen eye and gazing beyond what makes markets in any moment. Renowned art collector, social activist, arts patron, and Art+Practice co-founder Eileen Harris Norton exemplifies the latter.

“From the start, Eileen has intellectually pursued .

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