Dan Ives Is Putting His Wall Street Fame to Work at Yorkville Ives
Dan Ives spent eight years as one of Wedbush’s best-known technology bulls. Now, armed with 49 new stock recommendations and a familiar Wall Street brand, he’s trying to build a business of his own.
Victoria Beckham Finally Turns a Profit. Beauty Leads the Way.
After nearly two decades of losses, Victoria Beckham’s luxury group finally turned a profit. But with beauty accounting for most of its revenue, the fashion business remains the harder test.
The Haas Brothers On Finding Magic in Math at Marianne Boesky
Twin brothers Niki and Simon Haas made their name creating characters onto which collectors project personalities and affection. “Mathemagical” in New York pairs those bronze beings with new paintings governed by mathematical rules.
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Inside Rosebuds Reading Collective’s Night of Magic in Nolita
The carnival-themed bash raised funds for the organization, founded by comedian Nora Fried and joined by Julia Fox, which brings books and writing workshops to incarcerated women at Rikers. Well-heeled guests including Addison Rae, Nicky Hilton and Julio Torres nibbled cotton candy and played midway games long into the night.
In “Casserole Culture,” Melissa Joseph Redraws the Geography of Home
At Charles Moffett, she trades grand narratives of diaspora for the specifics of growing up Indian American in rural Pennsylvania. Her monumental needle-felted images of childhood residences, everyday objects and communal rituals honor the concept of home in all its warmth and contradiction.
Everything to Know Before Heading to WatchTime New York
North America’s premier public horology show brings luxury houses, independent ateliers and accessible brands together for three days of launches and conversation. For collectors, it is a rare chance to compare very different kinds of craftsmanship in a single room.
Subtitled NYC Is Carving Out a Third Path for New York’s Artists
The gallery launched as a practical way for artist Jaejoon Jang to afford studio space and share work he admired. It has grown into one of Brooklyn’s most adventurous independent spaces.
At Storm King’s 2026 Gala, Sculpture Met Sky
The open-air museum’s 2026 gala honored Alicja Kwade and Cathy and Peter Halstead, whose Montana art center owes much to the Hudson Valley institution’s example. Funds raised will support its collection, exhibitions and education programs.
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Yan Du’s YDP Brings a New Model of Art Patronage to London
The project space is both a platform for artists and an ongoing experiment in more flexible, creative models of philanthropy. Du sees herself as part of the younger generation of collectors redefining what cultural support can look like.
At Frieze London and Frieze Masters, Rediscoveries Are Giving the Market New Momentum
A £5 million Jan Brueghel the Elder led opening-day sales, while overlooked modernists from Morocco, Colombia and Antigua drew collector and institutional attention. In the contemporary tent, emerging voices and steady blue-chip sales set a measured, reset-era tone.
Why James Brett Wants to Retire the Term “Outsider Art”
The founder of London’s Gallery of Everything argues that self-taught, visionary and spiritual makers belong in the art historical canon rather than in a category apart. His Frieze Week program includes Sam Doyle’s first U.K. solo show and a memorial presentation of works by Seyni Awa Camara at 1-54.
Patek Philippe’s Milan Exhibition Is a Love Letter to Rare Handcrafts
“Watch Art” is a rare opportunity to see some of the world’s most elaborate timepieces. Yet amid the hundreds of extraordinary watches and clocks, the most memorable moments come from simply watching the people who create them work.
Public Gallery Built Its Reputation by Letting Artists Take the Lead
Founded in 2020 in a Brutalist estate on the edge of London, the space run by Alex Harrison, Harry Dougall and Nicole Estilo Kaiser has become a fixture at the major fairs. The co-directors explain how a flexible model shaped around the people they represent has carried them through several difficult markets.
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The Biggest Threat to Roger Goodell’s NFL Empire May Be Itself
Roger Goodell has grown the NFL into a business generating more than $23 billion annually. But its push for higher media rights fees, more streaming subscriptions and premium experiences is testing both broadcast partners and fans. The league’s dominance remains intact, although its pursuit of growth could create problems for the next generation of executives.
Ed Bastian’s Premium Strategy at Delta Faces a $6 Billion Fuel Shock
Delta’s premium cabins and American Express partnership are bringing in billions, but even those revenue streams can’t fully absorb a $6 billion fuel shock. With profit expectations falling and airfares climbing, the airline faces a difficult test of how much more its customers will pay.
From Sam Altman to Elizabeth Holmes, Hollywood’s Big Tech Obsession Goes Viral
Mark Zuckerberg is back on the big screen. Sam Altman is getting the Luca Guadagnino treatment. Elizabeth Holmes and Elon
German Property Magnate Ulrich Marseille’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Modular Hospitals
Ulrich Marseille made his fortune in real estate and elder care. Now he’s combining VAMED’s international hospital engineering business with WWH’s modular construction system. A project in Germany and a proposed hospital in Ghana could put his approach to the test, even as contract disputes in Guyana complicate the company’s plans.
Two Collections, Two Canons: What Andrew and Paul Mellon Built, One Generation Apart
Andrew Mellon assembled one of America’s premier Old Master collections before founding the National Gallery of Art. His son Paul inherited the institution, but not his father’s taste. Art advisor Megan Fox Kelly examines how their parallel collecting journeys illuminate the way cultural authority is cultivated across generations.
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The Berkshires Beyond the Foliage, Where Gilded Age Grandeur Meets Country Charm
Beyond the autumn colors, discover the Berkshires through the Clark’s art collection, Edith Wharton’s former home, centuries-old workshops and restaurants rooted in the surrounding countryside.
The Insider’s Guide to Exploring Newport’s Gilded Age Mansions
Step inside The Breakers, Marble House, Rosecliff and more for a closer look at the architecture, scandals and social ambition of Gilded Age Newport.
How Kiawah Island Became the South’s Most Exclusive Sandbar
How a buggy, half-built golf development became one of the priciest addresses in the South is a story of foreign money, a hurricane, a bankruptcy and a great many very well-protected trees.
Truffle Hunting in Tuscany, Where the Pigs Have Been Replaced
Forget what Nicolas Cage taught you in ‘Pig.’ In the oak woods outside San Gimignano, truffles are found by dogs raised on parmesan, and a few hours of foraging can send you home with a surprisingly heavy haul.
Experience the Best of Maine in Fall, From Oyster Boats to Pumpkin Regattas
New restaurants, private oyster cruises, L.L.Bean’s $50 million refit and the harvest rituals that make it worth driving from Portland to Katahdin.
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The London Restaurants With the Most Impressive Art Collections
From Sketch and Toklas to Mount St. Restaurant and The Cocochine, these London dining rooms pair serious cooking with works by Warhol, Picasso, Hirst, Tillmans and more.
Kwame Onwuachi’s New Cookbook Is a Love Letter to Comfort Food
The chef’s new cookbook is an ode to both the dishes of his childhood and what he cooks now when he has a (rare) night in.
The Insider’s Guide to Providence, Rhode Island’s Underrated Dining Scene
The Ocean State capital is home to an underrated culinary scene, with world-class chefs, freshly caught seafood and cozy Italian restaurants serving up red-sauce pasta and old-world ambiance.
Miami’s 7 Most Exciting Restaurant Openings This October
October brings fresh pasta, Filipino cooking, vintage-spirit cocktails and a José Andrés comeback to neighborhoods across Miami.
At Copenhagen’s Koan, Kristian Baumann Turns a Dual Identity Into a Culinary Strength
Baumann’s 18-course menu moves between Korea and Denmark, using fermentation, seafood and memory to turn the space between two cultures into Koan’s defining strength.
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Starbucks’ CSO Shake-Up Raises Questions About Corporate Climate Commitments
As Starbucks reorganizes its sustainability function, Kaleidoscope’s Sandhya Sabapathy examines why corporate climate strategies often lack influence over the financial and operational decisions that determine their success.
David Ellison Has Hollywood Scale. Now He Needs Precision.
David Ellison now controls Paramount, Warner Bros., HBO, CBS, CNN and a sprawling collection of Hollywood brands. The challenge is deciding which ones get the money, attention and room to grow.
As Google, OpenAI and Meta Push A.I. Agents, Enterprises Need Models That Think Less
The next breakthrough in enterprise A.I. may not come from models that reason more deeply, but from systems that know when to rely on established rules instead. Campfire’s John Glasgow argues that specialized models and deterministic systems can offer greater consistency at a fraction of the cost.
A.I.’s Power Problem: How Data Centers Hold the Key to a Greener Future
atNorth’s Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinsson explores the rising tension between A.I. growth and ESG commitments, and why resolving that tension starts with infrastructure. Kristinsson makes the case that the future of sustainable A.I. will be won in the design and operation of data centers that can balance performance with planet.
The Nordic Blueprint for Building A.I. Infrastructure at Scale
atNorth’s Anders Fryxell examines how the Nordic region has emerged as a global leader in A.I.-ready digital infrastructure, at a moment when hyperscalers and enterprises are struggling to secure sustainable capacity. The Nordics’ investments in renewable energy, grid resilience and circular economy practices offer a practical blueprint for scaling A.I. without sacrificing reliability or climate goals.
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Behind the Wheel of James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5
RM Sotheby’s has called it the “most iconic and recognizable Aston Martin ever built.” Beneath the legend, our reviewer finds a smooth, comfortable grand tourer built for the open road.
The 15 Heritage Watches With History Worth Wearing
These timepieces preserve the character, proportions and purpose that made their predecessors worth remembering.
Inside the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève, Watchmaking’s Most Prestigious Prize
There isn’t a Nobel Prize for watches, but the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève, better known as the GPHG, is routinely described as the industry’s Oscars.
The 72-Hour Escape: Where to Spend a Three-Day Fall Weekend Out West
Whether you’re looking for a culinary-focused trip or prefer an off-the-grid adventure, here is your guide to spending an unforgettable three-day weekend out West.
Demna’s Power at Gucci Goes Beyond the Runway
Demna’s influence at Gucci now reaches from the sample room to the sales floor. As the house’s decline begins to ease, his broader overhaul faces its commercial test.
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Gökhun Baltacı Paints the Psychic Weight of Memory
In “A Moonless Plateau” at kaufmann repetto, the artist’s materially dense, psychologically charged paintings slow perception down, and images emerge through layers of erasure and accumulation. The nearly sold-out show confirms the universal resonance of his subtle, subconscious-driven compositions.
For Jonathan David Katz, the Story of American Art Is a Queer One
The scholar and curator argues that a list of the nation’s greatest artists would largely mirror a list of its greatest queer ones. Through exhibitions, education and a grant-funded cohort of graduate students, he is working to make institutions admit it.
Ragnar Kjartansson Makes the Familiar Strange at Buffalo AKG Art Museum
“Politics of the Obvious,” part of the AKG Art Museum’s initiative devoted to art from the Nordic region, centers on works that stretch familiar gestures until hidden scripts appear. Two decades of Kjartansson’s video, performance and music reveal how fragile masculinity, capitalism and our own convictions really are.
With Ostillo Art Foundation, Collector René Campos Wants to Challenge How Texas Sees Art
His new nonprofit art space, led by Sacha Zerbib, debuted with works by Glenn Ligon, Marlene Dumas, Kader Attia and Thomas Struth in an inaugural exhibition that draws on Baldwin, the commedia dell’arte and the history of African art to question how images shape and distort meaning.
The Essentials With Frama’s Niels Strøyer Christophersen: Copenhagen Tables, Tokyo Guesthouses and Design Books
The Frama founder shares his go-to Copenhagen restaurant, favorite Tokyo guesthouse, all-black uniform, design books and the objects he never stops collecting.
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The Must-See London Exhibitions Beyond Frieze
Major surveys of Cecilia Vicuña and Salman Toor share the spotlight with Issy Wood’s self-portraits at the National Portrait Gallery and Sam Doyle’s first U.K. solo outing, while smaller project spaces round out a week of openings across the city.
Munch, Black Metal and the Nobel Peace Center: A Guide to the Art of Oslo
This city is an entryway into Scandinavia, into Norway and into a society and aesthetic that feels familiar yet is uniquely its own. Its unhurried pace and looming institutions present an atmosphere of stoic civilization, yet running through it all are undercurrents of eclectic folk myth and a mossy woodsiness intertwined with threads of Black Metal and a particular type of expressionistic Scandinavian madness.
Eight Books That Illuminate the Brilliance and Biases of the Nobel Prize
Works by Ishiguro, Wiesel and Feynman show the range of achievement the honor has recognized, while other selections confront the prize’s politics and critique the selection committees’ choices. The result is a fuller portrait of an honor that has defined excellence for more than a century.
How Oslo’s Museums Are Confronting the Contradictions in Their Collections
Across the city’s major art museums, directors including Astrup Fearnley’s Solveig Øvstebø describe reworking permanent collections and curatorial frameworks to reflect a more diverse, contemporary understanding of identity.
The Nobel Prize Diploma’s Century Long Artistic History
After receiving the category commission, Nobel Prize artists learn who the year’s awardees are at the same time as the general public. From there, they have just a few weeks to determine how best to represent what are oftentimes extremely complex or nuanced accomplishments.
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Observer’s 2026 A.I. Power Index: Who Controls the Capital Flow in A.I
Power in artificial intelligence no longer moves through the channels everyone learned to watch.
Observer New Media Power List: Call for Submissions
Nominations are open for Observer’s 2026 New Media Power List
The 50 Most Powerful PR Firms of 2026
This year’s honorees are emblematic of a notable shift in public relations from responsive publicity to proactive leadership in the moments that matter most.
Wall-to-Wall Cultural Capital: Inside Observer’s Art Power Index Party
Under the dim lights of the Lower East Side’s Maison Nur, art world luminaries gathered to celebrate Observer’s Art Power Index—and each other. From the impassioned speeches to the sharp tailoring and Damien Hirst over the bar, the evening embodied our legacy of chronicling power with style.
2025 Nightlife & Dining Power Index
Humanity is still the most vital ingredient in hospitality, and that isn’t changing anytime soon.
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Screening at New York Film Festival: Tony Gilroy’s ‘Behemoth!’
Gilroy seldom finds meaningful visual or thematic throughlines, resulting in a work of heightened moments and performances that work wonders individually, but never harmonize.
After Losing Two Fairs, Vienna’s Galleries Built One Together
Astoria Artshow is “a very important” and “very innovative” addition to Vienna’s art scene, according to Bärbel Vischer, curator of contemporary art at the city’s Museum of Applied Arts. It was launched by a group of 35 Viennese dealers following the cancellation of the city’s two main fairs, Vienna Contemporary and Spark Art Fair Vienna.
One Fine Show: “Mary Cassatt, After Impressionism” at the Art Institute of Chicago
The museum’s survey reframes the artist as a radical printmaker and an uncompromising figure who preferred the title independent, rejected official honors and pursued her own formal path.
Why Artist Residencies May Be Culture’s Best Defense Against Automation
Great works of art have always emerged from introspection, idiosyncrasy and time, none of which can be optimized or sped up. MacDowell executive director Chiwoniso Kaitano contends that artist residencies, long a hidden engine of cultural history, have never mattered more.
Alex Karp, Palmer Luckey and the Pentagon’s New Defense-Tech Order
Alex Karp’s Palantir and Palmer Luckey’s Anduril hold Army agreements worth up to $30 billion combined. New October contracts are expanding Anduril’s Pentagon business, even as fiscal 2027 begins under a temporary spending bill.
Screening at New York Film Festival: Tom McCarthy’s ‘A Statement’
Adapted from Nathaniel Rich’s ‘Losing Earth,’ this surprisingly exciting and entertaining film unfolds almost entirely in a single conference room where scientists, lobbyists and politicians debate how to warn Congress about rising carbon dioxide.
Dindga McCannon Has Been Stitching Black History into the American Art Canon for 60 Years
Fridman Gallery’s survey of the Harlem-born artist brings together quilts, paintings and prints from the 1970s to today, grouped by affinity rather than chronology. The works show how her blend of fabric, found objects and paint was ahead of its time and remains strikingly current.
Kristof Santy Would Rather Trust Objective Reality than Reach for Eve’s Apple
The self-taught Belgian painter’s new exhibition at Sorry We’re Closed in Brussels turns flea-market finds, folk imagery and everyday objects into saturated, strangely affecting still lifes. In conversation with Observer, he talks about his factory work, his debt to Philip Guston and why he resists symbolism.
Newly Appointed Madre Director Eugenio Viola Sees the Museum as a Living Archive
The curator of Italy’s 2022 Venice Biennale pavilion has returned to the museum where his career took shape after years working in Australia and Latin America. His vision for the institution includes rethinking its collection displays, broadening its funding and anchoring its program in the Mediterranean.
Bill Gates Is Spending $1 Billion to Keep A.I. From Widening the Global Divide
Bill Gates wants to keep A.I. from becoming another technology that reaches wealthy countries first. His foundation is committing at least $1 billion to put the tools to work in clinics, classrooms and farms around the world.