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Bezos Family’s $100M Gift to NYC’s Robin Hood Honors Jackie Bezos
Jeff Bezos pictured with his parents, Miguel and Jackie, at the National Portrait Gallery on Dec. 8, 2016, in Washington, D.C. Photo by Molly Riley/AFP via Getty Images The Bezos family is committing $100 million to New York City’s Robin Hood, the city’s largest poverty-fighting nonprofit. The funds are part of a Robin Hood campaign…
Read MoreWhy Sports Venues Are Betting Big on Fine Art
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s The Liberty Portraits: A Monument to the 2024 Champions at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone. Photography by Daniel Greer There is quite a bit to do and see at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, with men’s and women’s professional basketball, boxing matches, college basketball and hockey, concerts (Ariana Grande…
Read MoreTrust-Based Funding Works. So Why Are Artists Still Living in Precarity?
Artist Leo Robinson received an unconditional fellowship from the Arts Foundation in 2025. Photo: Anne Tetzlaff For emergent artists, the path into a sustainable career has rarely felt narrower. In the wake of the pandemic, amid a prolonged cost-of-living crisis and years of declining public investment, artists are facing increasingly difficult decisions and being pushed…
Read MoreServiceNow’s Customer Chief Warns ‘Tokenmaxxing’ Is an A.I. Hype Cycle
Even as A.I. token use explodes, some executives warn it risks becoming a vanity metric. Unsplash Tech workers are burning through massive amounts of A.I. compute in a race to code faster and automate more work. In Silicon Valley, the practice is known as “tokenmaxxing,” where employees push their use of ChatGPT and other large…
Read MorePregnancy Changes Mothers’ Brains. These Recent Discoveries Are Showing Us How
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“Baby brain” isn’t the deficit it’s stereotyped to be, research suggests. Neural adaptations during pregnancy can prime soon-to-be-moms to become more attuned to their children and enhance social cognition Daliah Singer May 8, 2026 8:23 p.m. During and after pregnancy, hormones drive profound changes in the brain’s structure and function. AleksandarNakic via Getty Images I’d looked…
Read MoreAuthor Alexa Yasemin Brahme’s Best Books to Read When You Don’t Know What the Hell You’re Doing
‘In Other Words’ by Jhumpa Lahiri Every one of Lahiri’s books has helped me in my quest for being, but I’ve chosen In Other Words for this list because it’s about learning a new language in adulthood, a “what the hell am I doing?” experience if ever there was one. Feeling alienated by both languages…
Read MoreDavid Attenborough Has Inspired Countless Scientists. To Mark His 100th Birthday, Here Are Ten Living Things They’ve Named After Him
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Researchers around the planet grew up watching documentaries hosted by the English broadcaster and naturalist, which sparked their love of the natural world. Now, their discoveries become tributes to his legacy McKenzie Prillaman | Assistant Digital Editor, Science & Innovation May 7, 2026 4:07 p.m. About 50 organisms have been named for David Attenborough or…
Read MoreNengi Omuku Sees Value in Beauty During Times of Global Disruption
Nengi Omuku, The Gathering, 2020. Oil on Sanyan. Courtesy the artist In Nengi Omuku’s painting The Gathering, a wounded figure lays on a stretcher, the body dripping on what seems like shards of rubble surrounded by a gathering of figures with amorphous faces. A small hand is raised as though blessing the injured figure as…
Read MoreLAS Art Foundation Pushes Quantum Art Forward in a New Venice Commission
LAS Art Foundation is a nomadic, non-profit art foundation that commissions and produces ambitious, research-led projects at the intersection of art, science and advanced technology. © 2025 Andrea Rossetti There are now many organizations operating at the fertile intersection of art, technology and science, and even museums are catching up, showcasing more experimental new media…
Read MoreNearly Half of Italy’s Wolves Are Part Dog Now, Thanks to Hybridization. Is That a Threat to the Species?
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Wolf-dog hybrids are growing far more common in Italy, raising scientists’ concerns for the future of the wolves Gennaro Tomma, bioGraphic May 6, 2026 7:30 a.m. About 47 percent of wolves in Italy are considered wolf-dog hybrids, according to a recent genetic analysis. Bildagentur Zoonar GmbH / Shutterstock Between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago, a now-extinct…
Read MoreThe Most Exciting Fashion on the 2026 Met Gala Red Carpet
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky. FilmMagic Today is the first Monday in May, and that can only mean one thing—it’s time for the Met Gala, also known as the biggest night in fashion. This evening, guests who received a coveted invite to the annual fête will head to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, bringing both jaw-dropping…
Read More“Greater New York” Shows a Generation’s Resilience at the Edge of Collapse
“Greater New York” is at MoMA PS1 through August 17, 2026. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Kris Graves A poetics of impermanence is also a poetics of transition, of remnants and remainders, carrying fragments of knowledge into whatever comes next. That’s what prevails at the latest edition of MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York” survey on view…
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