In April, the De Pont Museum in the Netherlands announced that Maria Schnyder would serve as its new director. The De Pont is a celebrated Dutch museum showing contemporary art, located in a former woolen mill in Tilburg. The museum’s collection is built around living artists, with the emphasis on the quality of the work […]
There are now many organizations operating at the fertile intersection of art, technology and science, and even museums are catching up, showcasing more experimental new media artists fluidly engaging across disciplines and between physical and digital realms. LAS Art Foundation was not only among the earliest to define this space, but it remains one of
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Train travel in America has always been something of a dare. The country laid 250,000 miles of track in the 19th century, effectively invented the long-distance passenger train, then spent most of the 20th century backtracking. Something shifted in the last few years. Amtrak moved a record 34.5 million passengers in fiscal year 2025—its second
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Experts describe the psyche as an amalgamation of both conscious and unconscious material, fluidly combining to compose our sense of self and the reality around us. Artist Dabin Ahn’s compositions materialize this process: psychological and emotional innerscapes taking form through multimedia canvases that echo the layered, often opaque construction of subjectivity. Ahn’s latest show, “Nocturne,”
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If Ragtime‘s Joshua Henry, nominated for a Tony Award just this morning, lit the fuse at the Met Gala’s start with his gospel-inspired, fever-pitched rendition of Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody,” Jon Batiste (who wore an homage to American portraitist Barkley L. Hendricks to the main event) blew the roof off The Carlyle
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Bill Ready has spent years pushing to make Pinterest safer for young users, well before regulators began zeroing in on the issue. As governments and parents intensify scrutiny of social media’s impact on teens, that focus is starting to pay off for the company. “We have long focused on creating a more positive platform; one
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Daniel Patterson and Sarah Lewitinn want their new Los Angeles restaurant to be a fine-dining destination with dinner-party vibes. So at Jacaranda, which will open in the Hancock Park area on Wednesday, May 6, the married couple has a six-seat communal table for guests who are inclined to make new friends. Patterson wants to rethink
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“Don’t say anything,” chef Kwame Onwuachi told Observer on Saturday night as we began to compliment him on the wonderful food we were eating at Maroon, his new Caribbean steakhouse at Sahara Las Vegas. “You’re going to make me cry. I’ve been crying all night.” Onwuachi was overwhelmed by the response he got from guests
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Frieze-New-York-2025-2.jpg?quality=80&w=970″ alt=”Visitors walk along an elevated outdoor path toward a large, modern, faceted building surrounded by trees and city structures.” width=”970″ height=”647″ data-caption=’Each year, Frieze anchors New York City’s spring art week. <span class=”media-credit”>Casey Kelbaugh/CKA</span>’> There are now more than eight fairs overlapping in New York in May, but Frieze New York remains the undisputed
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Most of us grow up with the implicit assumption that there is a dominant way to perceive and interpret the world. In other words, our sense of reality is not only shaped by a complex interplay of sensory and cognitive frameworks, but also by a conventionally established hierarchy between them that is rarely questioned. In
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