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Painter Renée Levin’s Unhurried Eye
Renée Levin. Courtesy Renée Levin What makes a flower petal, a pearl or a seashell special? On the canvases of Renée Levin, who paints their details writ large, the...
Five Works That Stole the Show at Frieze New York
Sarah Sze, Badlands (2026) Many years ago, I profiled Sarah Sze (b. 1969) for this publication. Digging into her work and personality, I found her to be a bona...
Why a Single 5.51-Carat Diamond Commanded $17.3 Million in Geneva
The Ocean Dream diamond headlined Christie’s Magnificent Jewels auction in Geneva. CHRISTIE'S IMAGES LTD. 2026 There are high-quality diamonds, and then there are the diamonds that exist in a...
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...
Why 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...
Trust-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....
ServiceNow’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...
Author 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...
Nengi 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...
LAS 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...
