What makes a flower petal, a pearl or a seashell special? On the canvases of Renée Levin, who paints their details writ large, the formation of these objects becomes a kind of miracle. Her go-to motif—extremely detailed objects set against plain backgrounds—is a way of exploring and sharing that miracle. As cliché as it might […]
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It is rare that the current occupant of the White House says something that unifies every American. So I suppose it’s telling that the one time I can remember it happening has come at the expense of FIFA. More »
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A few weeks ago, the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) confirmed what many in the industry already knew. The state is heading into summer with the lowest reliability margin NYISO has ever calculated, raising the risk of curtailments, brownouts, and blackouts. Demand is growing as electrification accelerates across EVs, buildings, industrial power, and data
After two short years, Rufus, Amazon’s “generative AI-powered conversational shopping experience,” has been sent to a server farm upstate. It will be remembered, almost, for appearing in the corner of hundreds of millions of More »
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Spare a thought for the many people in the art world who touched down this week fresh from a magnificent time in Venice and then, somehow, found themselves in the Shed. The jolt is a little like when Neo wakes up from the Matrix for the first time, yanking from his throat the tube that
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When Eric Adams was still mayor, the city agreed to pay the lawyers representing senior aide Timothy Pearson in four lawsuits alleging sexual harassment and retaliation. Soon after Adams left City Hall, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration abruptly reversed course, moving to cut off all city funding of Pearson’s defense. By then, the law firm Wilson
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Photo London has had a change of backdrop. After 10 years at Somerset House, the U.K.’s leading photography fair has moved five miles west to Olympia, a renovated 19th-century exhibition space in Kensington. From now through May 17, visitors can see photographs brought by galleries from around the world in a new iteration of the
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There’s one thing top of mind for CFOs at A.I. companies: compute power. As their firms race to dominate Silicon Valley—and trounce one another—OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar and Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao are focused on raising funds, securing chip deals and tracking demand for compute. Compute power is a “huge competitive advantage,” especially in a landscape where “there’s
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For months, a Republican congressman has been absent from Capitol Hill due to an undisclosed medical issue. There is no clear return date in sight, and a series of new reports has prompted only more questions about the lawmaker’s condition. More »
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Rex Reed in a striped suit and tie at a formal event in the 1970s, standing confidently near a woman in a fur coat whose back is to the camera.” width=”970″ height=”861″ data-caption=’Reed in his element at a New York event in the 1970s, moving through the glittering world he chronicled—and skewered—in print. <span class=”lazyload
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