What A.I.’s Most Powerful Leaders Said at Observer’s A.I. Power Index Party
https://observer.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/HLC-Observer_5.mp4 On Wednesday night, 145 A.I. founders, CEOs, investors and executives gathered at Dante Elizabeth Street for Observer’s...
View Article7 Watches That Take Yacht Life Seriously
On a yacht, peak performance is part of the luxury. A watch may be asked to time the start of a race, monitor the tides, track another time zone or simply withstand an afternoon in the sea. A nautical...
View ArticleAt Independent 20th Century, the Biggest Draw Is the Rediscoveries
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View ArticleJeff Koons On Balloon Dogs, Time and Why He Changed His Mind About Luxury
Last week in New York City, Swiss watch brand Hublot and American artist Jeff Koons celebrated their recently announced partnership with a packed event at Studio 525 in Chelsea. The event was...
View ArticleWhile Some Traditional Fairs Scale Back, the Other Art Fair Keeps Growing
The Other Art Fair isn’t like other art fairs. While Frieze, Art Basel, TEFAF, etc., are crawling with elite collectors who buy before they even arrive, the Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art,...
View ArticleBark Air President on Fixing the Very Expensive Problem of Flying With Dogs
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View ArticleThe Armory Show’s Strongest Argument for Relevance Comes From Its Youngest...
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View ArticleSpokane Is the Gateway to Walla Walla Wine Country
Still on East Coast time and wide awake at 6 a.m. on my first day in Spokane, Washington, I decided to make the most of jet lag and get dressed, pop in my AirPods and walk the two blocks to the...
View ArticleHow to Prepare for the 2026 Armory Show: A Reading List
The Armory Show, one of the world’s most prominent contemporary art fairs, opened this week in New York, ushering in the Big Apple’s autumn art season. Staged at the Javits Center through September...
View ArticleRodrigo Sorogoyen’s ‘The Beloved’ Stages a Father-Daughter Reckoning That...
More interesting than alluring, Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Cannes competition title and TIFF Special Presentation El ser querido (or The Beloved) follows a fearsome director trying to reconnect with his...
View ArticleTim Kent’s New Show Is About Rest But He Can’t Stop Working
Before he started painting full-time, Brooklyn-based artist Tim Kent spent six years playing bass for The Giraffes, one of New York’s most unhinged early-2000s rock bands, playing shows before the...
View ArticleArtist and Dealer Jaqueline Cedar’s SPLIT LEVEL Fair Bets on a More Intimate...
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View ArticleJimmy Pitaro Built ESPN’s Streaming Future. But How Many Fans Are Paying for It?
ESPN is getting closer to being the place NFL fans can start without first checking four other apps. Unlimited now puts Monday Night Football and NFL Network under one roof. It still can’t give you...
View ArticleStudio Lenca Has Built a Career on the Ambiguity of the Diasporic Experience
There is a diasporic narrative focused on migration, displacement, longing and the desire to re-establish a sense of belonging that animates the artist Studio Lenca (known otherwise as José Campos)...
View ArticleThe Families That Made Milan a Fashion Capital
Milan has a way of making another family’s taste feel like your own. An Armani jacket can persuade a man that he has always preferred a softer shoulder, just as a Missoni cardigan can coax an...
View ArticleWarren Buffett and the Loss of Capitalism’s Character Witness
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View ArticlePrecious Okoyomon On Play and the Garden as a Revolution of Tenderness
A garden of pollinators and perennials, twisting with native and invasive plants. A giant teddy bear slide inviting play. Resonant poetry competes with the sounds of the city. This is ‘Among The...
View ArticleAt Les Ambassadeurs in Monaco, Christophe Cussac Serves Generosity by the...
I’m holding my breath as an enormous wooden trolley, piled high with bread and an unreasonable mound of butter, rolls towards the table. I’d been aware of the famous bread trolley at Les Ambassadeurs...
View ArticleDirector Soyoung Yoon Says Critical Theory Still Anchors the Whitney ISP,...
Earlier this summer, scholar Soyoung Yoon was named the new director of the Whitney Independent Study Program. She succeeds Ron Clark, who led the program for more than half a century. Yoon is a...
View ArticleWhat Greg Abel’s First Nine Months Reveal About Succeeding Warren Buffett
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