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Longer reads from Nicole Brachetti Peretti: profiles, portraits and notes on the arts, investing and the ideas that connect the two.
The new tools are genuinely remarkable, and there is no need to pretend otherwise. Nicole Brachetti Peretti on why human creativity still leads in an age of artificial intelligence: what only a person brings to the making of things, why taste and intention cannot be automated, and why the years ahead look bright rather than diminished.
Some weeks the calendar simply overflows. Nicole Brachetti Peretti on why this summer feels so alive: a season crowded with new festivals and major exhibitions, why abundance is a gift rather than a burden, and the quiet, lasting pleasure of collecting and supporting the arts.
Three things done properly rather than ten attempted, and why a second visit is where the value sits.
Some weeks the calendar simply overflows. Nicole Brachetti Peretti on why this summer feels so alive: a season crowded with new festivals and major exhibitions, why abundance is a gift rather than a burden, and the quiet, lasting pleasure of collecting and supporting the arts.
One work, twenty minutes, and a quiet room: the best week of the year for looking at art properly.
Some weeks the calendar simply overflows. Nicole Brachetti Peretti on why this summer feels so alive: a season crowded with new festivals and major exhibitions, why abundance is a gift rather than a burden, and the quiet, lasting pleasure of collecting and supporting the arts.
The first days of August bring a softer light and a slower pace. Nicole Brachetti Peretti on the quiet joy of collecting in the late-summer weeks: why a collection is really a record of attention, how the season rewards a second and third look, and why the things we choose to keep give back the most when the year finally exhales.
Fashions in collecting change; the underlying pull does not. Nicole Brachetti Peretti on why real collections begin with attachment rather than value, how collecting differs from accumulating, and why the pleasure of living with chosen things is the part that lasts.
At the turn of the season the mood is steady. Nicole Brachetti Peretti on quiet confidence: the many small things being built beneath the daily noise, why the durable kind of optimism never shouts, and the plain reasons to feel calm about the months ahead.
Summer takes the hurry out of looking. Nicole Brachetti Peretti on unhurried attention: why the season's slower hours suit it, what a second and third visit give you that a first one cannot, and how patience quietly does most of the work.
By the middle of July the heat has stopped being news and become the shape of the day. An essay on high summer: the cool hours worth saving for art, and the plain pleasure of a quiet room with the shutters half closed.
Summer changes the way a book is read. Nicole Brachetti Peretti on slow summer reading: the pleasure of one book at a time, the long light of early July, and the quiet art of letting a story set its own pace.
The first week of July has its own particular light. Nicole Brachetti Peretti gathers a few days of it: mornings with art while the rooms are cool, books through the bright middle of the day, and warm city evenings that keep the season unhurried.
As June tips into July, the heat settles in and the city slows to match it. A high-summer notebook on art seen in the cool of the morning, books for the hottest hours, and the quiet pleasure of moving at the pace the season sets.
Late June brings the longest days of the year and an evening light reluctant to leave. Notes gathered with the windows open: on slow reading, quiet hours with art, and the small details that make a warm week feel considered.
A profile of the entrepreneur, venture capital investor and philanthropist: her backing of Magnum Photos and her earlier support for the arts through the Tate Americas Foundation and the Royal Academy Trust, the venture portfolio she has built through NJF Holdings and NJF Capital, and her earlier work in healthcare and education.