Arts & Entertainment

Baseball cards, video games, an old iPhone and a painting of a dog are among the items listed for sale on the eBay profile of Ryan Cohen, the CEO of GameStop. Earlier this week, Cohen made an unsolicited $56 billion offer to acquire eBay. Now he appears to be selling personal collectibles on the very […]

Esther Wojcicki lives less than 10 minutes away from both of her daughters and her many grandchildren in Palo Alto, Calif. On Mother’s Day, that proximity turns into, in her own words, “chaos.” “Kids are running around with presents. Nobody is organized. They’re all really excited. They want to know where the cake is,” she

If you are a woman, you will have experienced some variation of people telling you to choose your husband well. This piece of advice always seems to assume that every woman has thousands of proposals to choose from, and a biological clock that has never troubled her. And from among those many suitors, without the

This Venice Biennale has been tainted by politics both before and during its opening, exposing the contradictions and complications embedded within its nationalist structure. While the national pavilions often reveal the socioeconomic, political and even psychological condition of a country—from the tensions surrounding Israel/Palestine and the Venezuelan Pavilion, left empty and awaiting rebirth, to the

Spring in New York City—and more specifically, the month of May—has a way of turning the apartment into a problem. Whether it’s the radiator that won’t quit, the neighbor’s bass line, or the simple fact that the sidewalk smells like garbage soup again, the answer is a train ticket and a trailhead by 10 a.m.

Earlier this month, StarkWare’s chief product officer Avihu Levy published a proposal that has been the focus of active debate within the Bitcoin community. His scheme, Quantum Safe Bitcoin (QSB), allows users to transact in a way that remains secure even against a large-scale quantum computer running Shor’s algorithm, and it does so without requiring

I arrived in Venice for the 61st Biennale Arte on Sunday, early enough for the opening reception at Palazzo Diedo on Monday evening. I’ve visited a number of other Venice Biennales, though it was my first time being there for the opening, and over Bellinis at Diedo I asked a European dealer whether I should

When I tell people the food and wine scene in Melbourne is one of the best in the world, most are visibly surprised. I’ve lived in L.A. for over a decade, spent significant time in culinary cities like Toronto and New York, and stay in the south of France for several months a year. But

David Kass, a finance professor at the University of Maryland, is a longtime attendee of Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, Neb.—an event so popular it has earned the nickname “Woodstock of Capitalism.” In past years, Kass saw lines forming around the block as early as 6 a.m., along with overflow rooms and packed

In Nengi Omuku’s painting The Gathering, a wounded figure lays on a stretcher, the body dripping on what seems like shards of rubble surrounded by a gathering of figures with amorphous faces. A small hand is raised as though blessing the injured figure as it is transferred to safety. In the image, the crowd gradually