Arts & Entertainment

UNESCO’s mission is not only to preserve the heritage left behind by previous generations, but also to identify, track and promote the circulation of knowledge and ideas that foster further cultural creation, development and dialogue. It’s a mission that inevitably straddles past, present and future, and so the organization could not avoid confronting one of […]

Silicon Valley has a big appetite for money, talent and the next big tech startup. Its dining scene reflects that same drive, with polished rooms, tasting menus and Michelin attention built around a region full of ambition. Ask chefs where they eat on their days off here, and the answers may surprise you. They look

Some of the most powerful people building A.I. are now asking, in effect, to be stopped. Leading firm Anthropic recently conceded that “if it were possible to effectively slow the development of this technology to give ourselves more time to deal with its immense implications, we think that would likely be a good thing.” It

Putney is a bend in the Thames where London starts behaving like a system rather than a sprawl—nothing quite settles; instead, everything circulates. Commuters rush off trains and the District Line in loose clusters, runners already pacing the Embankment, rowers cutting through dark waters before the High Street has properly opened.  That movement is most

Bloomberg’s chief technology officer has, by his own admission, a job that is half about building the future and half about stopping the future’s more embarrassing impulses from getting anywhere near production. “Half my job is keeping out nonsense from the company,”  Shawn Edwards tells Observer, and he is not entirely joking. The nonsense he’s

As leaders across technology, media and finance gather in Sun Valley this week, much of the conversation will center on A.I.—its extraordinary pace, its commercial potential and its implications for nearly every industry. But beneath the excitement lies a quieter strategic question that may ultimately be more important: if A.I. democratizes knowledge, what becomes the

Lisson Gallery, showing suspended corten steel forms resembling enlarged lace or botanical structures alongside delicate glass and plant-like sculptures on rust-colored pedestals.” width=”970″ height=”727″ data-caption=’Installation view: Kelly Akashi&#8217;s &#8220;Heirloom&#8221; at Lisson, New York. <span class=”lazyload media-credit”>© Kelly Akashi, courtesy Lisson</span>’> Following a much-celebrated L.A. debut with Lisson Gallery, Kelly Akashi is presenting a new body