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On the night of December 4, 1783, nine days after the British finally cleared out of New York, George Washington walked up a staircase on Pearl Street into a low-ceilinged room above a tavern, and told the men who had won him a country goodbye. He embraced each officer, walked out to the Battery and […]

Recent controversies surrounding major biennials suggest that these exhibitions are anything but neutral cultural platforms. The 2022 edition of documenta, curated by the Indonesian collective ruangrupa, triggered a national crisis in Germany following accusations of antisemitism. The recent 61st Venice Biennale also faced geopolitical tensions triggered by a “Statement of Intention” issued by its international

As a photographer and storyteller, Giles Duley documents life during war, rather than war itself, in work that is powerful, thoughtful and full of love. He recently opened “Distortion/Memory/Resilience,” a two-week exhibition in New York showing his powerful images, with some artistic touches offered alongside them. Two wooden children’s school desks, placed in a simple

“We’ll let you into Jamaica,” said the head of security at Kingston International Airport, sliding my worthless passport back towards me beneath the glass window. “But it’s on you to find your own way out.”  It was 3 a.m. on a hot, sticky night in the Caribbean in March 2016—a simpler time. I was a

The latest barb in the intensifying rivalry between OpenAI and Anthropic: Dario Amodei’s hiring of Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and former head of Tesla’s self-driving unit. Karpathy has joined Anthropic’s pretraining team, he announced on X yesterday (May 19). “I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially

Anchored by top consignments, fresh-to-market museum-grade masterpieces and excellent provenance, Sotheby’s Modern Evening Auction on May 19 closed with a $304 million result, a 98 percent sell-through rate across 45 lots and more than double the total achieved in the equivalent sale in November. The result brings the running combined total for Sotheby’s marquee sales

Chip Wilson speaking onstage.” width=”970″ height=”694″ data-caption=’With U.S. sales under pressure and shares sharply down, Chip Wilson is recasting Lululemon’s slowdown as a failure of culture and leadership. <span class=”lazyload media-credit”>Jim Bennett/Getty Images</span>’> Canadian athleisure giant Lululemon is locked in a public battle with its founder, Chip Wilson, over who should fill seats On its

Phillips auctioneer takes bids in a packed saleroom as Andy Warhol’s Sixteen Jackies appears on the screen beside its estimate.” width=”970″ height=”655″ data-caption=’Phillips Evening Sale on May 20 closes white-gloves with a $115.2 million total, 122 percent up from May 2025. <span class=”lazyload media-credit”>Courtesy Phillips</span>’> Phillips may not have made as much noise ahead of

Harvest is in full swing when I arrive at Mount Mary, a small, single vineyard estate in the prestigious Yarra Valley in Victoria, a historic winemaking region in southeast Australia. Third-generation winemaker Sam Middleton peels away from his crew, who are busy maneuvering vats filled with grapes toward the crusher, and ushers me over to

At the bottom of Rex Reed’s obituary a week ago today, on May 12, 2026, I invited readers to share their memories. A very close and very private friend of Rex’s told me that “all Rex ever wanted was to be loved and to be famous.” Maybe the call for remembrances was my way of