Arts & Entertainment

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 […]

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

Cerebras Systems didn’t just go public this week; it minted billionaires and delivered one of the biggest venture paydays in years. The A.I. chip startup priced its IPO at $185 a share on Wednesday (May 13), above a range it had already raised twice. Shares opened at $350 on Thursday and closed at $311.07, valuing

Independent opened yesterday (May 14) in a new location in Lower Manhattan’s Pier 36, which is much less central and less immediately connected than Tribeca, but still worth the trip for the quality of its presentations. The larger space allowed the fair’s thoughtful selections to breathe, which matters more than you might think in a

A year after the latest wave of U.S. tariffs reshaped global trade, the drinks industry is still absorbing the aftershocks. Scotch whisky exports to the U.S. have dropped by 15 percent, European wine imports were down 11 percent in January 2026 compared with the year before and retail wine prices climbed by as much as

Mark Rothko painting displayed on the wall and bidding information shown on a screen.” width=”970″ height=”647″ data-caption=’Sotheby&#8217;s kickoff sales achieved a combined total of $433.1 million, led by Robert Mnuchin&#8217;s $85.8 million Rothko. <span class=”lazyload media-credit”>Julian Cassady Photography / Ali</span>’> Coinciding with several art fair openings, Sotheby’s kicked off a May auction round in New

The May auctions in New York stand among the most anticipated and defining moments of the global art market calendar. This year, the marquee sales arrive amid renewed geopolitical turmoil and an oil crisis described as the most severe in a decade, yet also against a backdrop of renewed confidence in the art market, following

The United States turns 250 this summer, and the run-up has, to put it politely, gotten away from us. There are now two competing federal commissions—one bipartisan and congressionally chartered, the other a White House task force selling million-dollar donor packages with private photo ops attached. PragerU has produced A.I.-generated videos of the founding fathers.

There are high-quality diamonds, and then there are the diamonds that exist in a category so singular that the usual vocabulary of the trade barely applies. The fancy, vivid blue-green Ocean Dream, which sold yesterday (May 13) in Christie’s Magnificent Jewels auction in Geneva for $17.3 million, is one of the latter. This 5.51-carat triangular-cut

With Frieze New York opening just a few blocks away, Future Fair close by and the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in the same building, NADA opened in good company. At 10 a.m. on May 13, it welcomed VIP guests, still fresh with early-day curiosity, to take a quick first look before what would be,