Arts & Entertainment

Justin Bua’s disembodied head is floating at the bottom of my phone’s screen, his tousled grey hair framed against a video of an artist smashing a mirror with a hammer. “What you see is not you–deeper than you know–” is printed on one side of the mirror. With a hammer, the artist smashes the other […]

The London sales opened with a record-setting £393.4 million night for Sotheby’s, led by the benchmark-shattering £273.6 million Lewis sale, which became not only the most expensive single-owner collection sold at auction but the highest result for an evening sale in Europe in more than a decade. It was a tough act to follow for

Watered-down drinks, stale service and perpetually disappointing buffets are just a few things that come to mind when picturing the traditional all-inclusive resort. For decades, budget-friendly travelers have been enticed by the all-inclusive model made popular by brands like Club Med, seeing it as a way to make travel more accessible. And in many ways,

The Icelandic Pavilion offers one of the most ethereal, poetic experiences currently on in Venice—a fluid exercise in mythmaking and imagination. Titled “Pocket Universe,” the exhibition conceived by Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir is an expansive storytelling environment in which visitors drift through a sequence of gestures, whispering presences and sensory associations dispersed across the space. Rather

It’s been several years since the exhibition, but I still can’t understand why the Brooklyn Museum allowed a stand-up comedian from Netflix to curate a show about how much she hates Pablo Picasso. Some will probably disagree with me, but I don’t feel that popularity online affords one sufficient qualifications to try to take down

It’s not always those among us who survive and thrive in brutal environments who are the best of us. If anything, they almost never are. In such a world, it is almost always those with the courage to feel—those who open their hearts—who are punished for it and perish. A lesson for anyone who ever

On Tuesday (June 23), as the setting sun bathed London’s Kensington Gardens in a honey-tinted glow, the Serpentine Summer Party—annually one of the U.K. art scene’s most fashion-forward events—returned in characteristically impeccable form. This year’s fête was hosted by arts patron and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, Serpentine CEO Bettina Korek and artistic

Prints and editions have proven in recent years that an artistic medium can grow significantly without necessarily being well understood by the broader public. Pace Prints announced in February that it will open an 11,700-square-foot facility in L.A. this fall, strengthening the wave of activity in the prints-and-editions collecting category. Almine Rech introduced an editions

For much of the streaming era, platforms have been designed around personalization: algorithmic feeds, curated recommendations on what to watch, who to follow, what to buy and where to go, all optimized for individualized relevance. That design logic has reinforced a broader narrative that cultural consumption would continue to fragment into increasingly solo, on-demand experiences,

There’s an assumption among aspirational buyers shopping for Toyotas, Chevrolets, Hyundais and so on that a Mercedes-Benz is just a little out of their reach. In previous incarnations, the automaker’s C-Class existed to challenge that perception. A car shopper could just as easily slip into Mercedes’ pocket and grab what German luxury lovers would consider