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Inside the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève, Watchmaking’s Most Prestigious...

With the Nobel Prize announcements underway, awards are once again drawing attention to achievements that take years to earn and only a moment to recognize. There isn’t exactly a Nobel Prize for...

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After Losing Two Fairs, Vienna’s Galleries Built One Together

Among the highlights at the spacious, multistory Astoria Garage in Vienna this past September was FS 272 (1992), a mirrored sofa by the celebrated Swiss artist John M. Armleder made of furniture,...

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Starbucks’ CSO Shake-Up Raises Questions About Corporate Climate Commitments

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol looks on during the Golden Bear Pro-Am prior to the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday 2025 at Muirfield Village Golf Club on May 28, 2025 in Dublin, Ohio."...

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David Ellison Has Hollywood Scale. Now He Needs Precision.

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Munch, Black Metal and the Nobel Peace Center: A Guide to the Art of Oslo

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in November 2024. “Art is as much about searching as it is about creating,” wrote Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard in his book about painter...

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The 72-Hour Escape: Where to Spend a Three-Day Fall Weekend Out West

The art of a three-day escape lies in knowing which destinations are best explored in 72 hours. Some small towns need no more than a weekend, while other—often larger—cities require at least four to...

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As Google, OpenAI and Meta Push A.I. Agents, Enterprises Need Models That...

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Miami’s 7 Most Exciting Restaurant Openings This October

October is one of the most underrated months in Miami. It’s that sweet spot after summer, when the weather cools down, the kids are back in school and the tourist crowds haven’t arrived yet. Locals...

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One Fine Show: “Mary Cassatt, After Impressionism” at the Art Institute of...

I grew up expatriate and so have always had a soft spot for outsiders. When it comes to art history, this means enjoying the extent to which artists often reject the movements with which they are...

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A.I.’s Power Problem: How Data Centers Hold the Key to a Greener Future

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in July 2025. The A.I. market has seen unprecedented growth in recent years and shows no signs of slowing down. According to a UN Trade and...

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Eight Books That Illuminate the Brilliance and Biases of the Nobel Prize

It remains a highly coveted accolade, announced every October, charting excellence in six categories: literature, chemistry, economics, peace, physiology/medicine and physics. Since 1901, the Nobel...

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Ragnar Kjartansson Makes the Familiar Strange at Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Many of the behaviors that make up our routines are, in fact, social rituals we have seen repeated around us and gradually absorbed. It begins in childhood, as we watch our parents and imitate their...

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Why Artist Residencies May Be Culture’s Best Defense Against Automation

A.I. is remaking our social, political and cultural fabrics, and even if we are at the beginning of what this new age will mean for humanity, it is already clear that few things will be the same—not...

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Alex Karp, Palmer Luckey and the Pentagon’s New Defense-Tech Order

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With Ostillo Art Foundation, Collector René Campos Wants to Challenge How...

A new foundation has just opened in Austin, as the Texas art scene continues to flex its muscles with studios, galleries and unconventional art spaces. A largely self-sustaining cultural geography has...

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The Art Basel and UBS Collecting Survey Shows Gen Z Setting the Pace, and the...

If the most visible effect of the Great Wealth Transfer on the art world so far has been the parade of major 20th-Century collections hitting the block and lifting the very top of the market, the Art...

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Demna’s Power at Gucci Goes Beyond the Runway

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The Essentials With Frama’s Niels Strøyer Christophersen: Copenhagen Tables,...

Before Niels Strøyer Christophersen had a design company, he had a job taking rooms apart. After high school, he worked as a bricklayer’s assistant, demolishing bathrooms and cutting tiles, while...

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Screening at New York Film Festival: Tom McCarthy’s ‘A Statement’

Funny and terrifying in equal measure, Tom McCarthy’s A Statement is a work of recent history rendered urgently, re-creating a multidisciplinary policy meeting on climate change in October of 1980....

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At Copenhagen’s Koan, Kristian Baumann Turns a Dual Identity Into a Culinary...

A stroll along the Copenhagen waterfront, past the famous Little Mermaid statue, will bring you to Koan, a two-Michelin-starred restaurant that opened in April 2023. It’s hidden under the archway of...

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