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One Fine Show: ‘Tamara de Lempicka’ at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Tamara de Lempicka titled Portrait of Ira P. (1930), showing a stylized woman with pale skin and dark curled hair, seated in a white dress with red fabric draped over her arms, holding a bouquet of white calla lilies against a background of geometric shapes and deep shadows.” width=”970″ height=”1502″ data-caption=’Tamara de Lempicka, <em>Portrait of

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Microsoft Turns 50: Where Are Its 12 Founding Employees Today?

Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, and Paul Allen. Middle row: Bob O’Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, and Gordon Letwin. Back row: Steve Wood, Bob Wallace, and Jim Lane. Not pictured: Miriam Lubow.”> In 1978, the coder Bill Greenberg called into a local radio show and, after correctly guessing the name of an assassinated president,

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Art Collector Athanasios Polychronopoulos Is Bringing A.I. Art to Delphi

There is still a mysterious auratic energy in the sacred precinct of Delphi in Greece. In what is now an archaeological site, the ancient Greeks built a sanctuary famed for its oracle, the Pythia, who delivered prophecies from Apollo, the god of music, healing and light. Considered the center of the world in Greek mythology,

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Intel’s New CEO Lip-Bu Tan Lays Out His Plan to Turn Around the Troubled Chipmaker

Earlier this week, Intel’s new CEO Lip-Bu Tan delivered a keynote speech at the Intel Vision conference—just 14 days into his tenure. He takes the reins at a critical moment for the once-dominant American chipmaker, now struggling to keep pace with rivals amid the A.I. boom. Intel still holds a commanding share of the CPU

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Fusing Virtual World-Building and Brushwork, Emma Webster Reimagines the Landscape Tradition

Pushing the limits of figuration and abstraction and of fiction and fantasy in our relationship to nature, British-American artist Emma Webster has embarked on an aesthetic, philosophical and spiritual examination of contemporary perceptions of landscape, navigating the slippery terrain between sensorial reality and digital manipulation. She debuted new works during Art Basel Hong Kong at

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With a Buoyant Opening, SP–Arte Showcases the Strength of a Self-Sufficient Brazilian Art Market

SP–Arte, Brazil’s leading art fair, opened yesterday (Wednesday, April 2) to VIPs in the iconic Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo designed by Brazilian master architect Oscar Niemeyer. Animated since the early hours by the packed crowd of mostly Brazilian collectors, dealers were busy with negotiations and conversations until late into the evening—well after the fair closed at

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Nike and Adidas Are Getting Trampled by Trump Tariffs Targeting Vietnam

Over the past few years, the world’s largest sneaker companies have increasingly expanded their sourcing footprint in countries like Vietnam to diversify production outside of China. But with the Trump administration’s “Liberation Day” tariffs taking aim at manufacturing hubs across Southeast Asia, this strategy is now majorly backfiring against footwear giants like Nike and Adidas

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Inside the Mission to Put Ecuadorian Art on the Global Map: A Conversation With Eliana Hidalgo-Vilaseca

In a country where cultural infrastructure is lacking and institutional support for contemporary art is only just coming into its own, Eliana Hidalgo-Vilaseca has spent the better part of two decades building a future for Eucador’s artists, domestically and internationally. Armed with a Master’s in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York

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