Arts & Entertainment

Despite women in the U.S. launching nearly half (49 percent) of new businesses, they received just 2.1 percent of all venture capital funding in 2024. That figure dropped to 1.1 percent in 2025 as investors concentrated funding in A.I. companies. Molly Huyck, who spent more than two decades at PayPal, sees that imbalance as a […]

If there were ever a film destined to be mistaken for centrist apologia (if not outright conservative propaganda), it’s Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord, the searing social drama that won him his second Palme d’Or. However, its emotional impetus is contradiction, so any conflicted feelings when viewing it through a political prism are not unwarranted.

My long and varied media career includes a stint at LIFE magazine. Time Inc. had been trying to revive the property as a slideshow-oriented web 2.0 venture that paired new pictures with deep dives into the rich archives. Often we would present old photos alongside new interviews with the photographers or subjects of the photos.

Frida Kahlo with green doors and window bars, a red border, and visitors walking outside.” width=”970″ height=”639″ data-caption=’Casa Azul, where Frida Kahlo lived for more than 40 years, draws art lovers from around the world. <span class=”lazyload media-credit”>Photo: Jordan Riefe for Observer</span>’> For three generations, art lovers have been drawn to a residential corner in

India’s rise in the global art market has been well-charted, though it’s perhaps less well-known that mega-collector and patron Kiran Nadar has, in part, led the charge. She was able to bring in Manuel Rabaté, the longtime director of Louvre Abu Dhabi, as the director of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) ahead of

Bad Roman self-identifies as a maximalist restaurant. Bad Roman is maximalist in its design. It will make its West Coast debut today (Tuesday, May 26) in Beverly Hills, with a boar sculpture and greyhound statues standing guard next to green velvet banquettes.  Bad Roman is maximalist in its attitude. Michael Stillman, CEO of Quality Branded

Michelin-starred Coral Gables destination Shingo is a 14-seat restaurant with $275 seasonal tasting menus and an interior that was built in Kyoto before being disassembled, shipped and rebuilt at its final destination in Florida. Shingo, which specializes in omakase featuring ultra-premium nigiri and signature items like eel with caviar, is perched at the pinnacle of

Mattel has long been known for making toys that defined generations. But under CEO Ynon Kreiz, the company has been reshaping itself into an entertainment-driven brand powerhouse. The 2023 blockbuster Barbie proved that strategy was paying off, and Kreiz is doubling down. Since taking over in 2018, he has led a corporate turnaround that pairs

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Art that involves children can be complicated to absorb when you have none of your own. My press pass gave me one of the earliest looks at the Venice Biennale last week, and I would never have predicted that the Japanese pavilion by Ei Arakawa-Nash would be such a hit among my colleagues, because it