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This Is What You Missed at SCHWET’s Steamy, Under-the-Radar Debut
Guests gathered inside SCHWET’s still-unfinished Tribeca space for a tightly curated, deliciously phone-free evening. Sam Waxman You could be forgiven for missing one of last week’s hottest parties, which unfolded semi-secretly inside a three-story, still-under-construction space in Tribeca, where hard hats have not yet fully given way to hand towels. The guest list was tightly…
Read MoreRuoming Pang, Meta’s $200M Superintelligence Hire, Jumps to OpenAI After Just 7 Months
Sam Altman reportedly courted Pang for months. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Ruoming Pang, a prominent A.I. researcher recruited by Meta last year with a pay package reportedly worth more than $200 million, has left the company to join OpenAI, The Information reported yesterday (Feb. 25). His departure marks another setback for Mark Zuckerberg’s elite A.I. team…
Read MoreAs Jamie Dimon Signals Exit, 5 JPMorgan Execs Emerge as CEO Contenders
With Jamie Dimon preparing for retirement, JPMorgan’s next CEO will likely emerge from a tightly contested internal race. Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images This year, Jamie Dimon celebrates 20 years at the helm of JPMorgan Chase. The 69-year-old CEO is prepared to pass over the reins to a successor in a “few years,” he said…
Read MoreA Travel Guide to Montana’s Bitterroot Valley, Where the West Still Feels Wild
The Bitterroot Valley of western Montana is one of the last truly wild places, unspoiled by traffic or crowds. Forget the large ski resorts of Big Sky or the ever-growing city of Bozeman, and venture southwest, where lift lines are nonexistent, and downtowns remain charmingly uncommercialized. Though Glacier and Yellowstone have their undeniable charms, you…
Read MoreHow Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos Is Championing Latin American Art Through Legacy
Galería RGR’s programming serves as a bridge between Latin American historical masters and contemporary artists. Gerardo Landa Rojano For almost a decade, Galería RGR has served as a vital bridge between Venezuela’s rich postwar artistic movements and broader Latin American creativity while situating these practices within an international discourse of shared aesthetic sensibilities. At the…
Read MoreSterling Ruby’s “Atropa” Is a Quiet But Profound Reflection on Entropy
Installation view: Sterling Ruby’s “Atropa” at Sprüth Magers in New York. Photo: Genevieve Hanson American artist Sterling Ruby has long engaged not only with the chaotic condition of our human present but also, more broadly, with that primordial chaos from which everything originates. His work engages with entropy, expressed both through physical and organic decay…
Read MoreDean Majd’s “Hard Feelings” Expands the Emotional Register of Masculinity
Dean Majd. Photo: Zach Hussein For much of photography’s history, male portraiture preserved a degree of emotional distance, presenting men as stoic, authoritative and restrained. Dean Majd has spent the better part of a decade pursuing a more nuanced portrayal of masculinity in photographs that capture men in moments of profound vulnerability and mutual dependence,…
Read MoreNunu Hung’s Year of Ambition, Intellectual Depth and Unapologetic Openness
Nunu Hung at Nunu Fine Art Taipei. Courtesy Nunu Fine Art In a city like New York, where cultural capital is theoretically abundant, the gallery world can still feel like a closed system, calibrated for insiders already fluent in its coded language. What makes Nunu Fine Art stand out in that crowded ecosystem isn’t just…
Read MoreHilary Duff Admits She Worries Husband Matthew Koma Will Leave Her for an “Indie Songwriter”
Indeed, those inner thoughts are what Hilary—who shares daughters Banks, 7, Mae, 4, and Townes, 21 months, with Matthew, as well as son Luca, 13, with ex-husband Mike Comrie—sings about on her album, out Feb. 20. “That was the approach of the record,” she told Rolling Stone. “What keeps me up at night? What are…
Read MoreThis Giant Carnivore Ran on Hooves. Scientists Are Investigating Its Massive Skull and Crushing Teeth to Decipher the Beast's True Nature
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For more than a century, paleontologists have been piecing together how the mysterious predator Andrewsarchus is related to other mammals, like the extinct “hell pigs” and “wolves with hooves” Source link
Read MoreHailey Bieber Details How Past Stroke and Heart Surgery Forever Changed Her
“I have a whole new breath of life with it,” she explained on the Therapuss podcast. “I feel even more motivated and more passionate. And now that we have e.l.f. as a partner, I also feel I have more access to do that, which is exciting.” And when she’s not getting creative in the lab,…
Read MoreTed Sarandos, Greg Peters Fight to Lock in Netflix’s Warner Bros. Discovery Deal
Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos is lobbying Washington and shareholders to secure Netflix’s $83 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery before Paramount can derail it. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters are mounting a two-front campaign to salvage their $83 billion deal for Warner Bros. Discovery after WBD reopened the door to…
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