This public lecture series, initiated and organized by New School Art Center director Paul Mocsanyi, brought leading experts to The New School to discuss aesthetic, economic, political, and psychological dimensions of collecting art. Speakers included August Heckscher; Samuel Melvin Kootz; Werner Muensterberger; Pollen Peregrine; Richard H. Rush; Nelson A. Rockefeller; and James Johnson Sweeney. The recurring series preceded the Collectors Institute by several years, continuing as an offering of that program after the institute was established.