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  • Cultured Mag: From Wall Street to Wall Power— Collector Chad Leat Offers a Guide to Navigating the New York Art Scene

    Cultured Mag: From Wall Street to Wall Power— Collector Chad Leat Offers a Guide to Navigating the New York Art Scene

    by Giuliana Brida January 10, 2025 published in Cultured Mag Chad Leat reflects on decades of art collecting, the mentors who shaped him, and the advice he’d give to budding enthusiasts. Left: On wall: Karl Haendel, Abstract Overlapping Targets, 2007. Red sculpture: Keith Haring, Curling Dog, 1987. Table at left by Arman. All photography by…

  • Bloomberg: Wall Streeters in the Hamptons Turn Out for Leat at Parrish Gala

    Bloomberg: Wall Streeters in the Hamptons Turn Out for Leat at Parrish Gala

    by Amanda L. Gordon July 16, 2018 published in Bloomberg Chad Leat’s Wall Street friends followed him to the Parrish Art Museum Saturday night to see him honored by CNN’s Don Lemon. Among the guests at the Midsummer Party benefiting the Herzog & de Meuron-designed museum in Watermill, New York, were Michael Carr, co-head of M&A…

  • Commentary: We’re Not in Kansas Anymore

    US News & World Report April 2018 “The Divide Between America’s Prosperous Cities and Struggling Small Towns in 20 Charts” illustrates the growing crisis of rural poverty with grim findings about income, male employment, education, diversity and mortality rates in 1,800 U.S. counties that are home to one in seven Americans. What’s more, every graphic showed…

  • There are better ways to spend $1.5 trillion than on corporations

    The Hill April 4, 2018 In the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that passed last December, Donald Trump and the Republican Congress doubled down on deficit spending, an unpopular move that they say will grow GDP and jobs.  While we can speculate endlessly about who will get a specific tax break next year, there is no debate…

  • Bored With Your Boardroom? Diversify

    Entrepreneur April 2018 It’s often said that change starts from the top. If that’s true, can someone please tell me why corporate boardrooms seem to be the last bastion of the privileged? America is composed of diverse individuals. Individuals of different races, genders, sexual orientations and backgrounds are part of our national fabric, and they should be part…