Arts & Entertainment

Mark Stevens, an early Nvidia investor who has reaped billions from the chipmaker’s rise, is now directing his philanthropy closer to home. He and his wife, Mary, are donating $175 million to fund the first new medical school in the region in more than a century, which will be operated as a partnership between Santa […]

There have been a number of recent Martin Puryear exhibitions: a 2007 sculpture show at MoMA, a 2015 exhibit of his works on paper at the Morgan Library and a 2023 exhibit on his site-specific works at Storm King. These addressed parts of the whole of his work; “Nexus,” featuring over 50 pieces, now at

Future Fair aisle shows visitors moving between gallery booths displaying paintings and sculptural works.” width=”970″ height=”647″ data-caption=’Future Fair and 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair ran a short walk from each other in Chelsea. <span class=”lazyload media-credit”>Courtesy Future Fair</span>’> As usual, New York art week‘s satellite fairs—with their more contained, curated formats and sharper sense of

The 63 U.S. national parks are the country’s shining glories—a combined 84 million acres of mountain ranges, lava deserts, swamp boardwalks, glacier-fed lakes and old-growth forests, all owned in common and run by the same agency that prints the brown signs. They draw international visitors, road-trippers, retirees with annual passes and kids on Junior Ranger

Michael Botta built Sesame Care on a simple premise: for a growing number of Americans, it can be cheaper and easier to pay for some health care directly than to go through insurance. Sesame, the New York-based cash-pay marketplace he co-founded, is built around that idea and expanding it into areas where demand is high,

MML Hospitality will debut its revamp of Austin’s historic Driskill Grill and Bar today (Monday, May 18), with a deep focus on Texas beef alongside an all-over-the-map cooking sensibility from chef April Bloomfield. “It always comes back to what’s in Austin, what’s the market,” MML co-founder Larry McGuire tells Observer. “It seems like the capital

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

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

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