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Museum Educator Sierra Schiano On the Structural Pressures Behind LACMA’s Union Vote
LACMA staffer Sierra Schiano describes long-standing structural issues—from understaffing to opaque decision-making—that gradually pushed her and her colleagues toward unionization. Courtesy of Sierra Schiano Over the holiday break, the...
Wall-to-Wall Cultural Capital: Inside Observer’s Art Power Index Party
Power in the art world is often discreet—etched into museum walls, discussed over gala dinners—but this certainly wasn’t the case on Tuesday night, where pioneers of the industry and...
Meet the Collectors: Carl Gambino and Sarah Ivory Refuse to Play the Market Game
Carl Gambino and Sarah Ivory at home, where collecting is inseparable from daily life. Painting by Sholto Blissett | Photo: Gloria Kilbourne The art world can be challenging to...
A 22-Year-Old Founder Wants to Build the Moon’s First Hotel by 2032
Skyler Chan launched GRU last year. Courtesy GRU Space Civilian travel to the Moon remains years away, but a California startup is already making plans to host overnight guests...
Could Rococo’s Relatability Make It the Next Big Thing?
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The happy family, called Young couple contemplating a sleeping child, or The return home, or The reconciliation. Oil on canvas, 70 x 89 cm. Estimate: €1,500,000-2,000,000. ©...
Elon Musk’s Grok Hit With Bans and Regulatory Probes Worldwide
A post by Elon Musk on the X app, showing an A.I. prompt-created Grok image depicting Musk wearing a bikini. Leon Neal/Getty Images Grok, the A.I. chatbot developed by...
The Most Important Art Biennials of 2026
There is broad consensus across the art world that since the early 2000s, there has been a global proliferation of biennials—the so-called biennialization of contemporary art—largely driven by local...
The Longevity Gap: How Aging Research Leaves Women Behind
As longevity shifts to A.I. and predictive health, male-biased data risks repeating old inequities at scale. Unsplash+ Longevity has become one of the defining cultural fixations of our time....
Bill Gates’ Optimism Comes With ‘Footnotes’ After a Tough Year for the World
In a sobering annual message, Bill Gates warns that global aid cuts and unchecked A.I. could derail progress. Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images Bill Gates...
Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Reveals the Simple Secret of Her Successful Turnaround
Fran Horowitz, a former executive at Express Inc. and Ann Taylor Loft, joined Abercrombie & Fitch in 2014. Patrick MacLeod/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images Abercrombie & Fitch is making...
