Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Athletes often draw comparisons to artists, and basketball Hall of Famer Carmelo Anthony--who danced around defenses, innovated angles, and showed a delicate touch around the basket en route to scoring 28,289 points in his 19-year NBA career--counts as a master craftsman. So it's only fitting that Anthony, like other professional athletes, is starting to make his mark as an art collector.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Although she's been seriously collecting art for less than a decade, Jen Rubio has made an impression on the fine art world similar to the one she made on luggage when she co-founded the Away suitcase brand in 2015. She acknowledges the impact of her collection, which is more than half by female artists and has helped elevate historically undervalued figures, but says her choices were primarily from the heart.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. When Alicia Keys and Kaseem "Swizz Beatz" Dean first started collecting art together well over a decade ago, they were mostly just doing it for the love of the game. "We started collecting without a mission, to be honest," Dean says.

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Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Does art really exist if nobody ever sees it? This question drives Anne Kraybill, the CEO of Art Bridges, a kind of art-sharing enterprise that helps extract works from viewer-free storage rooms so they can be displayed at museums (often rural, often under-resourced) around the U.S. The concept is more complicated than it sounds because of insurance, shipping costs, and issues around preservation--as well as the general tendency for art institutions to operate in silos.