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Indigenous Futurism, Place and Kinship: An Interview with Crystal Bridges’ Jordan Poorman Cocker

Jordan Poorman Cocker. Photo: Ryan Redcorn Last month saw the opening of “American Sunrise: Indigenous Art at Crystal Bridges,” which examines the...

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Dan Duray

‘Laid’ Review: Sex, Death And One of the Year’s Best Comedic Characters

Stephanie and Zosia Mamet in Laid James Dittiger/PEACOCK In 2022, actor Stephanie Hsu made a big splash as Joy/Jobu Tupaki in the hit indie action-...

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Dylan Roth

Authors, Publishers and Technologists are Divided on A.I.-Edited Books

Publishing a book on an A.I.-powered platform is much cheaper than going through a traditional publisher. Shubham Dhage/Unsplash The publishing...

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Victor Dey

The New Aspen Restaurants to Check Out This Winter

Aspen might be known for its world-class skiing and natural beauty, but the glamorous mountain town also has a buzzing culinary scene. Downtown...

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Leila Najafi

‘La Bohème’ at the Royal Opera House Brings 19th-Century Paris to Life in Stunning Detail

The setting by director Richard Jones is beautifully executed. The Royal Opera © 2024 Mihaela Bodlovic Our English word catharsis comes from the...

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Frances Forbes-Carbines

Cohere, a $5.5B Canadian A.I. Startup, Is Quietly Working with Peter Thiel’s Palantir

Aidan Gomez has served as Cohere’s CEO since its 2019 founding. Cole Burston/AFP via Getty Images Since bursting into the A.I. scene five years...

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Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

With a $1.4T Market Cap, Exactly How Overvalued Is Elon Musk’s Tesla?

Elon Musk has donated more than $100 million to Trump’s presidential campaign. ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk’s unwavering support...

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Shreyas Sinha

‘Life, Love and Death in Sicily’: Letizia Battaglia’s Legacy of Violence On View in London

Disperazione di un figlio (Desperation of a son), Palermo, 1976. © Courtesy Archivio Letizia Battaglia The specter of death looms large in Letizia...

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Henry Roberts

Alphabet’s Waymo Expands Beyond US to the World’s Most Populous City

Waymo's self-driving taxis will hit the busy roads in Tokyo early next year.

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Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

Asmik Grigorian’s Raw Passion Eclipsed Piotr Beczała’s Quiet Thunder at Carnegie Hall

Tenor Piotr Beczała and pianist Helmut Deutsch. Photo: Chris Lee It was a good week for Russian song at Carnegie Hall, where two concerts by...

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Gabrielle Ferrari

Robert Smithson’s Iconic ‘Spiral Jetty’ Is Now On the National Register of Historic Places

Spiral Jetty, constructed by artist Robert Smithson in 1970. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Completed in 1970 on the shores of Utah’s...

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Elisa Carollo

In Her “New Yorks,” Georgia O’Keeffe Finds Where Discernability Falls Apart

Georgia O’Keeffe in New York City, circa 1944. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images The widespread understanding of Georgia O’Keeffe’s...

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Leia Genis

A.I. Data Centers Are Emitting as Much Greenhouse Gases As Commercial Airlines: Study

The U.S. is home to over a third of the world’s data centers. Getty Images for Unsplash Data centers, the nondescript facilities that dot the...

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Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

The Essentials With Nicky Hilton: Kids’ Menus, Chanel and Holiday Dressing

Growing up living in New York City’s Waldorf Astoria, Nicky Hilton’s day-to-day was like a real-life version of the beloved children’s book...

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Marissa Desantis

What We Know About the ‘Cézanne 2025’ Celebrations in Aix-en-Provence

Paul Cezanne, Les Joueurs de cartes, 1890 et 1895; Huile sur toile, 47 x 56,5 cm. Paris, musée d’Orsay; Legs comte Isaac de Camondo, 1911....

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Sarah Moroz

Review: Libs Own Themselves in the Sharp and Infectiously Funny ‘Eureka Day’

Bill Irwin, Thomas Middleditch, Amber Gray, Jessica Hecht and Chelsea Yakura-Kurtz in Eureka Day Jeremy Daniel Manhattan Theatre Club’s new...

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David Cote

Greenland’s Most Remote Arctic Areas Have Never Been More Accessible

Ilimanaq Lodge in Ilimanaq, a town of 50 people in Greenland. Peter Knudsen and World of Greenland A sea of icebergs stands between our water taxi...

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Kayla Becker

Ilya Sutskever Warns A.I. Is Running Out of Data—Here’s What Will Happen Next

Ilya Sutskever founded the A.I. startup Safe Superintelligence after leaving OpenAI. AFP via Getty Images Ilya Sutskever, an OpenAI co-founder and...

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Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

AMD Is Pouring Cash Into A.I. Startups: Companies It Has Backed So Far

Lisa Su has acted as AMD’s CEO for more than a decade. Noam Galai/Getty Images for TIME AMD (AMD), a Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker that has...

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Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

Colorado’s Best Ski Resort Towns

Although many states offer great opportunities for snow sports, Colorado is North America’s undeniable skiing mecca. The Rocky Mountains thread...

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Emily Zemler

The Most Exciting New Restaurants to Try in L.A. for Winter

Thanks to its temperate weather and year-round sunshine, Los Angeles remains as lively as ever during the winter months. Though many consider this...

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Allie Lebos

The UK’s Major Deal With Saudi Arabia Is Another Sign of the Kingdom’s Growing Cultural Cachet

British PM Keir Starmer meets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth - WPA Pool/Getty...

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Elisa Carollo

How Jes Fan Is Staging a Phenomenology of Bodies in Continuous Transformation at Andrew Kreps

An installation view of Jes Fan’s “Sites of Wounding: Interchapter” at Andrew Kreps. Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery. Working at...

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Elisa Carollo

Gjelina Heads to Vegas: L.A.’s Iconic Farm-to-Table Darling to Open at the Venetian

Gjelina’s roasted chicken, artichokes and date cake. TRIP DAVIS Los Angeles mainstay Gjelina , the sustainably minded produce-forward restaurant...

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Andy Wang

Transcendent Materialist Philosophy: Art Collecting as Pathology at Arter in Istanbul

An installation view of “Suppose You Are Not.” Orhan Cem Çetin, courtesy Arter The first floor of the year-long, 400-artist Arter exhibition,...

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Matt A Hanson

Inside Amazon Web Services’ Ambition to Train Two Million A.I. Workers: Q&A

An interactive exhibition at the AWS Skills Center in Arlington, Va. Aaron Mok for Observer As Big Tech invests billions into the expansion of...

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Aaron Mok

The Whirlwind Rise of Abby Pucker, Chicago’s Next-Gen Pritzker Art Apostle

Abby Pucker (l.) with curator Zoey Lukov and Pace Gallery president Samanthe Rubell. Marc Patrick/BFA.com One of the newest hot-ticket connections...

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Andy Vasoyan

A Stegosaurus Skeleton Is Going Public as Dinosaur Fossils Increasingly Become Investments

The fossil is still being excavated at Bone Cabin Quarry in Wyoming. Courtesy Rally The newest hot public offering isn’t a fintech or A.I....

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Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

Behind the Gravitational Pull of Her Electric Abstractions: An Interview with Lucy Bull

Lucy Bull, 3:13, 2023; Oil on linen diptych, overall, 54 x 192 x 1 1/4 inches/ (137.2 x 487.7 x 3.2 cm). Photo: Elon Schoenholz Courtesy of David...

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Elisa Carollo

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