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Inside Tom Wesselmann’s Studio, Tomokazu Matsuyama Considers Pop’s Afterlife

"Wesselmann x Matsuyama" pairs six of Matsuyama's works with six by the pivotal Pop figure, plus three new pieces made specifically for the...

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Elisa Carollo

Contemporary Art Enters Istanbul’s Deep Past at Koza Güreli’s Zeyrek Çinili Hamam

After a 13-year restoration, the 16th-century hammam has become a rare meeting point for heritage, bathing culture and site-specific art. "Artists are...

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Elisa Carollo

How Waabi’s Raquel Urtasun Is Building One A.I. Brain to Drive Trucks and Robotaxis

Raquel Urtasun explains how Waabi is training its autonomous trucks and Uber robotaxis without relying on billions of miles of driving data.

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Sissi Cao

Art Fair Confidential: An Insider’s Look at Staging the Armory Shows of Yesteryear

Setting up hundreds of gallery booths in a 72-hour window meant managing a mix of skilled art handlers and freelance labor with no art background. The...

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J. McMahon

The Best New L.A. Restaurants Opening in September

Nancy Silverton returns to the Palisades, The Brothers Sushi lands in Beverly Hills and a new crop of brasseries, bakeries and steakhouses joins the...

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Allie Lebos

The New Status Symbol Is a Yacht That Reaches Antarctica

Expedition yachting has become luxury's newest arms race, where prestige is measured in polar permits, helicopters and submarines instead of beach...

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Paul Jebara

TIFF Remains a Launchpad Even as the Festival Blurs the Line Between Fandom and Industry

Debates still rage over the festival's shifting atmosphere, yet the intensity of that debate underscores how deeply the city and the industry remain...

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Joshua Mellin

Best of TIFF: Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘The Debut’

Outside the occasional blockbuster, you're unlikely to experience mid-movie applause so thunderous that it drowns out whole lines of dialogue. And yet...

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Siddhant Adlakha

The Herbert Lust Collection Lands at Christie’s, Led by a $30M Giacometti

Family and friends describe the late collector as a scholar first, insisting that, for him, deep knowledge of an artist always preceded acquisition....

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Elisa Carollo

At Mexico’s Apapaxoa Festival, Dominique Crenn Thinks Beyond the Stars and the Rankings

Honored alongside some of the world's most inventive chefs, Dominique Crenn argues that the future of fine dining depends as much on farmers,...

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Andy Wang

Jewel’s First Major Exhibition Merges Science, Myth and Feminine Power

In “Matriclysm: An Archaeology of Connections Lost,” the Grammy nominated musician brings together deeply personal and universal concerns,...

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Melissa Baksh

Greg Abel Runs Berkshire. Howard Buffett’s Job is to Keep it Berkshire.

Warren Buffett called his son Howard an insurance policy Berkshire shareholders should hope never to use. The metaphor explains the job.

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Mónica Marie Zorrilla

The Art World’s Real Vulnerability Isn’t Theft. It’s the Move.

When valuable works of art move between museums, galleries, shippers and temporary crews, chain of custody and access control are as important as...

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Kumar Sokka

The Best Lesson I Learned on the Road as a Traveling Art Handler

Atelier 4 founder and CEO Jonathan Schwartz recalls an early job in his career when he misplaced a Jasper Johns and how the mishap inspired him to...

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Jonathan C. Schwartz

The Long, Strange History of Yacht Clubs

The yacht club evolved over three centuries from private fleets and dining societies into institutions that shaped racing, boat design and the culture...

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Paul Jebara

Meet the Data Center Builders Behind A.I.’s Next IPO Wave

For years, the data center boom was financed by sovereign wealth, private equity and bank debt. Now Nscale, Vantage and Humain are testing whether...

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Mónica Marie Zorrilla

The Fed Moved. The Borrowing Math Changed for Businesses.

Citizens’ Mark Valentino and Eric Merlis unpack the business implications of the Federal Reserve’s latest rate hike, examining what the new...

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Mark Valentino

Philanthropy Needs to Invest in the Infrastructure of Mobility

Point Source Youth’s Larry Cohen examines what youth homelessness reveals about the gaps between philanthropy’s investments in education and...

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Larry Cohen

The New York Gallery Shows Not to Miss During Armory Week

These exhibitions, spanning museum-level presentations of works by Lynda Benglis and Alfredo Jaar, ambitious gallery debuts and digital...

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Elisa Carollo

Collector or Dealer? Lio Malca Built a Cultural Ecosystem by Refusing to Choose

After making early bets on Basquiat, Haring, Scharf and Condo, the collector-turned-dealer created a three-pronged arts ecosystem with exhibition...

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Elisa Carollo

At Cannes, BYD and the Superyacht Industry Charts a High-Tech Future

At the Cannes Yachting Festival, BYD's battery technology and advances in alternative fuels offer a glimpse of a cleaner, quieter future for...

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Alistair Macqueen

Women’s Brain Health Is Philanthropy’s Next Big Bet

Maria Shriver, founder of the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement, makes the case for treating women’s brain health as a philanthropic investment...

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Maria Shriver

The Women of the Legendary 1913 Armory Show

It's remarkable that not one or two, or a handful, but 50 women in 1913 were accepted by the all-male Association of American Painters and Sculptors,...

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Mary Gregory

A Smarter Guide to a Greener New York, From Refillable Fragrance to Reclaimed Design

Seven stops take in a perfume refill, a handbag appraisal and lemon-pith kosho butter before crossing into Brooklyn for a sorting shift and a night...

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Paul Jebara

Mila Askarova Adds Chelsea to Gazelli Art House’s International Footprint

Just before the opening of this year's Armory Show, the London- and Baku-based gallery will take over the space formerly occupied by Marlborough...

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Elisa Carollo

One Fine Show: “I SPY! Walter Wick’s Hidden Wonders” at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art

The show includes several three-dimensional models from which Wick's photographs were made, showcasing the physical construction that went into images...

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Dan Duray

Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty Redefines Success with Purpose That Performs

At the Fast Company Innovation Festival, Selena Gomez and her beauty brand's chief impact officer Elyse Cohen explain how Rare Beauty and the Rare...

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Shaili Singh

Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden Navigates a Tough Turnaround After Yeezy Split

Adidas has put its Yeezy crisis behind it, but CEO Bjørn Gulden says the company’s next test is keeping its comeback on track in a tough sportswear...

18.09.2026 7

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Eric Berger

Screening at TIFF: Arie and Chuko Esiri’s ‘Clarissa’

Novelistic and abstruse, the film—named for Woolf's nostalgic middle-aged socialite, Clarissa Dalloway—unfolds with the very same...

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Siddhant Adlakha

The Fight Over Data Centers Is a Fight Over Who Owns the Compute

The A.I. boom has concentrated compute in enormous data centers, but Product Science’s Anastasia Matveeva argues that advances in distributed...

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Anastasia Matveeva

The Nasher’s New Survey Treats Protest as an American Tradition

The thesis of "Turn the volume up!" is that every voice still matters, no matter how insignificant and powerless many currently feel.

18.09.2026 8

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Jordan Riefe

After a Family Health Crisis, Bill Ackman Takes a Startup Approach to Brain Research

Bill Ackman is launching the Ackman Oxman Institute, a startup-style brain research organization, after his daughter survived a massive brain...

18.09.2026 6

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Eric Berger

Houston’s Insiders Say the City’s Cultural Scene Remains One of the Art World’s Best-Kept Secrets

"Houston is a city of transplants, and I think that constant influx makes the cultural fabric richer," dealer Laura Burton told Observer.

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Elisa Carollo

How to Explore Cornwall, One Charming Coastal Pocket at a Time

Cornwall is at its best when the itinerary leaves room for harbor towns, coastal walks and the occasional pub detour.

18.09.2026 10

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Emily Zemler

Candace Bushnell: “You Just Have to Go Out Every Single Night”

When it comes to meeting someone, the Sex and the City columnist still believes in 1990s methods—specifically, meeting in real life.

18.09.2026 9

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Jasmine Lobe

A Decade In, London’s Somerset House Studios Is Still Refining Its Model of Artist Support

As London sheds galleries, art schools and independent cultural venues at a distressingly rapid clip, the innovative R&D lab for artists is...

17.09.2026 8

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Simon Coates

Jimmy Chin On Finding Beauty in Landscapes That Kill

He describes confronting mortality as a deliberate element of his relationship with the environments he photographs, rather than something to be...

17.09.2026 8

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Dan Duray

The 10 New York City Restaurant Openings to Know This September

During one of the year's most crowded months for restaurant openings, Cafe Charmant, Brasserie Boulud, Dante Elizabeth Street, Creola and Faux land in...

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Juliet Izon

Inside Claridge’s Century-Long Love Story With Fashion

For more than 100 years, designers, models, editors and socialites have turned Claridge’s into one of fashion’s most enduring London haunts.

17.09.2026 10

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Emily Zemler

Inside Cohere’s $20 Billion Sovereignty Bet, With Co-Founder Nick Frosst

Earlier this summer, Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst talked to Observer about why sovereign A.I. matters after Anthropic's June shutdown. On Wednesday,...

16.09.2026 10

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Merin Curotto

What’s Next for British Art?

British art is having a moment, but British Art Fair co-founder and director Gay Hutson cautions that before we celebrate too loudly, it's worth...

16.09.2026 8

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Gay Hutson

The 2026 Toyota GR Supra MkV Final Edition Is a Perfect Eulogy on Wheels

In its last incarnation, the GR Supra is that most wonderful of cars: a vehicle that exists for no other reason than to celebrate the joys of driving.

16.09.2026 7

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John Scott Lewinski

Toronto’s Fall Cultural Calendar Foregrounds Ruin, Rebirth and Rupture

Fall programming across the city spans Melissa Auf der Maur's unfiltered '90s tour photography, a scaled-down survey of Impressionist masterworks, a...

16.09.2026 10

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Adam Robb

Toronto Biennial Curator Allison Glenn On Creating Connections and What Happens When Things Fall Apart

For the 2026 edition, 30 artists and collectives will explore the idea of rupture as a generative force, expanding the exhibition beyond Toronto via...

16.09.2026 5

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Elisa Carollo

Gloria Steinem Taught Us How to Walk Forward Without Her

Entrepreneur Stacey Boyd, who knew and collaborated with Gloria Steinem, reflects on the organizing principles behind Steinem’s extraordinary life...

16.09.2026 8

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Stacey Boyd

The University of Toronto’s Alumni Are Everywhere in the A.I. Boom

Geoffrey Hinton’s research ecosystem helped turn the University of Toronto into a breeding ground for the founders and technologies driving...

16.09.2026 9

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Rachel Curry

In London, a New Wave of Greek Restaurants Goes Beyond the Taverna

Rather than simply chasing a trend, these chefs and restaurateurs are making a broader case for Greek cuisine through refined, regionally specific and...

16.09.2026 8

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Emily Zemler

Collector Dick Hedreen Has Sold Artworks Before, But This Time the Proceeds Will Build a Museum

Proceeds from upcoming auctions at Sotheby's, expected to exceed $90 million, will fund a new museum at Seattle University to house his major 350-work...

15.09.2026 8

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Elisa Carollo

We Loved a Serial Columnist: New York Toasts 30 Years of Candace Bushnell’s Original SATC

Thirty years after Sex and the City first ran, Candace Bushnell returned to Observer's pages to explain why the column was never about sex at all.

15.09.2026 8

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Merin Curotto

This Gloucester Exhibition Looks at David Hockney Through the Eyes of a Friend

Curated by Bing McGilvray, “Hockney Reproduction(s)” at Manship Artists Residency explores the artist's six-decade engagement with technology and...

15.09.2026 8

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Christa Terry