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Saying No for Change: Dawn Chan On Grounding Herself in a Jet-Setting World

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in September 2025. Many in the international art world adore its jet-setting ways, but a few years back, the writer and academic Dawn Chan embarked...

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Untitled Art Finds Its Footing in Houston With Its Second Edition

Following its Texas debut in 2025, Untitled Art returned to Houston, opening its second edition to VIPs on Oct. 1 at the George R. Brown Convention Center. This year’s exhibitor list topped out at 98...

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Corporate Cultural Investments Are Finding Their Place in ESG Reporting

For a long time, culture was viewed at best as an economic driver, and more narrowly as a generator of tourism. Successful culture-led development strategies around the world have since shown that its...

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The Bigger Economic Story Behind Higher Mortgage Rates

Mortgage rates have crossed an uncomfortable threshold again. The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate rose to 7.28 percent this week, its highest level since November 2023, according to Freddie Mac....

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David Ellison Names His Empire Skydance After a Rocky Week on Wall Street

When Paramount Skydance completes its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery next week, the combined company will be called Skydance. CEO David Ellison announced the name on social media this morning,...

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Andy Jassy Needs Alexa to Close the Sale, Not Win the A.I. Race

Andy Jassy has a lot riding on Alexa. On Amazon’s Q2 earnings call this summer, the CEO told investors that “everywhere Alexa goes, it drives momentum for the business,” and he had numbers to back it...

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Five Luxury Watches Backing Sustainability Claims With Substance

A luxury watch might make a better sustainability case than most things in fashion. It’s small and usually produced in relatively modest numbers. A good one can spend decades on one wrist before being...

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Xander Soren’s Wines Make a Case for Pinot Noir With Sushi

I’m running late to meet Xander Soren for a wine tasting at Maison Healdsburg, but my tardiness turns out to be perfectly fine. While he waited, Soren struck up a conversation with a couple at the...

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Experts On How to Mitigate the Ethical and Environmental Impacts of...

Most of us try to be good individually and to do our best to make the world a little better even as we know it’ll never be enough. But when our individual efforts become part of collective action,...

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Two Dealers on West Broadway: A History

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Institutions Are Increasingly Rethinking Public Art Conservation With Climate...

One of the newest acquisitions for the Cullen Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is Simone Leigh’s 24-foot-tall bronze semi-figurative work Satellite, likely titled for the head of...

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The Carbon Cost of Culture: How the Art World Is Confronting Its Shipping...

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in July 2025. In the race to deliver masterpieces to the world’s top art fairs—from Art Basel to Frieze—the global art market faces an increasingly...

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Bernardo Paz Is Extending Instituto Inhotim’s Legacy With a New Museum for...

There are arguably very few projects that have attempted to integrate art and nature as radically as Instituto Inhotim in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, about 60 kilometers from Belo Horizonte in...

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Watchmakers Are Catching Up to Cartier’s Small-Case Instincts

For much of the past two decades, luxury watches seemed to move in only one direction: bigger. Cases stretched past 40 millimeters and sports watches grew increasingly imposing as brands built entire...

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Dario Amodei Wants to Pace A.I. The Industry Needs to Pace Its Release.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, left, speaks with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff during the keynote address at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference at the Moscone Center on September 15, 2026 in San Francisco,...

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Brian Niccol Says Starbucks Is Back. Pumpkin Spice Season Will Tell.

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For Younger Collectors, Fashion Is the New Fine Art

In The Devil Wears Prada 2, Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs borrows a flowing, multicolored patchwork Gabriela Hearst dress from the closet of the fictional Runway magazine to wear to the Hamptons. An...

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Dario Amodei’s $518 Billion Bet Gives AI’s Infrastructure Leaders the Upper Hand

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei attends a working lunch with G7 leaders, G7 outreach partners, and global tech CEOs on innovation and AI, during the G7 Summit on June 17, 2026 in Evian-les-Bains, France....

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Antonio Romero’s Paintings Are Reflections of the Shadows of Power

Born in El Salvador, painter Antonio Romero has never had the luxury of political unawareness. “MIRROR,” marks the culmination of a residency at Kates-Ferri Projects in New York, is an immersive,...

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The Stylish Traveler’s Guide to a Greener Paris Getaway

Daily life in Paris has never looked greener. On rue de Rivoli, cyclists occupy lanes once given over to cars. The Seine’s three public bathing sites reopened for a second summer after the cleanup...

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