Arts & Entertainment

A few weeks ago, we learned that Cecilia Alemani will serve as the next curator of the Taipei Biennial, one of Asia’s longest-running and most closely watched recurring shows. Alemani, the Italian-born, New York-based director of High Line Art, is best known for “The Milk of Dreams,” her acclaimed 2022 Venice Biennale, which drew more […]

As America approaches its 250th anniversary, conversations about economic competitiveness often focus on emerging technologies, workforce development and global competition. Yet one of the most consequential economic challenges shaping the country’s future is unfolding much closer to home: the transfer of millions of privately held businesses from one generation of owners to the next. How

Few A.I. models have generated as much attention as Anthropic’s Claude Mythos. Since Anthropic announced Project Glasswing and Claude Mythos Preview in April, the model has drawn intense interest for its reported ability to identify vulnerabilities across major web browsers and operating systems. When news broke that cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike was involved in Glasswing, “the

The Bass Museum announced recently that Philippe Vergné—who has run museums from Marseille to Minneapolis to Los Angeles and, since 2019, Porto’s Serralves—would soon arrive in Miami Beach as the institution’s first artistic director and chief curator. He starts in October, sharing the museum’s leadership with executive director Silvia Karman Cubiñá in a role the

While European jewelry houses were shaped by royal courts, aristocratic patronage and centuries of tradition, American jewelers emerged from a culture of entrepreneurship, industrial innovation and self-made wealth. The result was a distinct American style—bold, technically innovative, gemstone-driven and often less constrained by convention. Beginning in the 19th Century, firms including Tiffany & Co., Marcus

There’s an immense confidence to Rachel Rose’s understated drama The Last Day, the kind of deftness often born of cross-disciplinary artistry. The movie marks her feature debut, but it shares its title with one of Rose’s many video installations—specifically, one that captures Earth’s epochs through photographs of objects around her daughter’s bedroom. On the surface,

The Monastery of San Marco in Florence was originally established in the 13th Century; the monks’ cells of the convent were decorated by Fra Angelico in the 1440s. Each small cell has a single window oriented away from direct sunlight. The diffused, soft light was specifically designed for meditation and prayer. Each cell is adorned

When Abigail Cowen was auditioning for the role of Delilah Mason in the onscreen adaptation of Carley Fortune’s bestselling novel, Every Summer After, she didn’t actually know what she was auditioning for. “They had the show under a code name, and it wasn’t until we went in for the last read with all of the

A kid from the Bronx once pressed his face to a department-store window, memorizing how Fred Astaire knotted a tie and how Cary Grant wore tweed. That kid was Ralph Lifshitz, born in October 1939 to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants from Belarus, and the world he could only watch through glass became the one he sold

For all the talk of A.I. as a Silicon Valley arms race, many of the companies driving the industry were built by founders whose stories began outside the U.S. Some—like Elon Musk and Ali Ghodsi—now lead companies valued at more than $100 billion. Others, including Fei-Fei Li, Yann LeCun, and Daniela Rus, helped pioneer the