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Meet Lucy Guo, the New Youngest Self-Made Woman Billionaire Dethroning Taylor Swift
Lucy Guo attends as Passes presents Lucypalooza 2024 during LA Tech Week on Oct. 16, 2024 in Beverly Hills, Calif. Getty Images for Passes Lucy Guo, the 30-year-old co-founder...
“The First Homosexuals” Is a Dazzlingly Overwhelming Chronicle of Queerness in Art
Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, La Blanchisseuse (The Laundress), 1879; graphite, ink and ink wash on paper. Private collection, California. Courtesy of Schiller & Bodo European Paintings “The First Homosexuals: The Birth...
A.I. Godfather Yoshua Bengio Launches Nonprofit to Counter the Rise of Agentic A.I.
Yoshua Bengio testifies during a hearing before the Privacy, Technology, and the Law Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee on July 25, 2023. Alex Wong/Getty Images Yoshua Bengio, a pioneering...
Observer’s Guide to Fine Art Storage, Where Masterpieces Go to Wait
Unlike standard self-storage, fine art storage facilities offer purpose-built environments designed to house and protect artworks under tightly controlled conditions. Courtesy Fortress What is the afterlife of an artwork?...
The Big Givers Club
As Bill Gates vows to give away his entire fortune, the modern billionaire class continues to reinvent philanthropy as performance—balancing ambition, altruism and enduring control. Observer Bill Gates recently...
ESPN’s Streaming Leap Could Make or Break Sports TV as We Know It
A view of the logo during ESPN The Party on February 5, 2016 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for ESPN) Mike Windle/Getty Images for ESPN...
Boston’s Triennial Reimagines Public Art Through the City’s Social, Historical and Ecological Realities
Patrick Martinez, Cost of Living, 2025. Photo: Faith Ninivaggi Biennials and triennials are proliferating across the globe, often launched by local governments as tools for tourism and city branding....
Mott 32 Puts All Its Ducks in a Row for a Glamorous Hollywood Debut
Mott 32 is opening in L.A. next year. Courtesy Mott 32 Upscale Chinese food will level up dramatically in Los Angeles when world-renowned Mott 32 opens a 12,000-square-foot location...
How Gen Z and Prints Are Reshaping the Art Market’s Future
While headlines suggest a slump, the art market is expanding thanks to young collectors and prints priced under $50,000. Kevin Czopek/BFA.com You’ve probably seen the dire headlines about the...
To Make an Exhibition, Make A Library: An Interview With the New Museum’s Massimiliano Gioni
Massimiliano Gioni’s curatorial process often begins not with a thesis, but with a desire to preserve, reinterpret and reanimate cultural memory. Deonté Lee/BFA.com Massimiliano Gioni is a man of...
