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At Christie’s, Women Commanded the Market While Rewriting Records
Auctioneer Yü-Ge Wang sells Miss January by Marlene Dumas for $13.6 million. Christie's Women dominated Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale on May 14. Led by auctioneer Yü-Ge Wang and...
British Billionaire Jeremy Coller Funds A.I. Race to Understand Dolphin Language
The winner of this year’s Coller Dolittle prize will use the funds to study bottlenose dolphins. Wild Horizons/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The beloved Doctor Dolittle children’s books and films...
Your Brain Wasn’t Built for This. Algorithms Know It.
As algorithms guide our every move, the line between convenience and control gets blurrier. Unsplash+ In March 2021, a driver in Charlton, Massachusetts, plunged his car into Buffumville Lake...
Satellite Collective’s Kevin Draper and Lora Robertson On Making Art in Turbulent Times
Kevin Draper and Lora Robertson’s works in conversation at Mriya Gallery. Roman Gorbun Photography Back in 2016, then-Observer contributor Wayne Northcross—now co-curator of the 2026 Detroit Queer Biennial, among...
ChatGPT Is Becoming a Stand-In Doctor—Here’s What OpenAI Is Doing About It
Are you asking ChatGPT for medical advice? Ahmed/Unsplash More people around the world are turning to ChatGPT for medical advice when feeling unwell or anxious—sometimes in place of seeing...
‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ Lands in L.A.
At the Nimoy Theater, the composer’s story returns to the place where it originally unfolded. Photo: Liza Voll Austrian auto-didact, music theorist, pedagogue, writer and emancipator of dissonance, composer...
The Best Boutique Hotels in Southern California
Booking a boutique hotel has a plethora of benefits, from more attentive and detail-oriented service to premium privacy and fewer guests. While large beach resorts certainly have their perks,...
From Ramen-Making Class to Horseback Riding, Airbnb Pivots to Experiences and Services
Airbnb’s reimagined experiences include a ramen-making class with the award-winning chef Saburo Ishigōka. Courtesy Airbnb Personal meals made by a Michelin-star chef. A Lucha libre training session with Retro,...
The 10th Anniversary of ‘Fury Road’ And The Road We’re On
Tom Hardy as Max in Mad Max: Fury Road. Warner Bros. In 2015, George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road imagined a future apocalypse of fascism, patriarchy, environmental collapse and...
The Case for Positive-Sum Capitalism
A new dawn for economic design: reimagining capitalism through the lens of justice and inclusion. Unsplash+ In Isaac Asimov’s groundbreaking collection of short stories titled I, Robot, we encounter...
