Posts by Sophie Clearwater
Karoline Leavitt to Step Down as White House Press Secretary
It is unclear who will replace Leavitt as White House press secretary. TIME has reached out to the White House for comment. Leavitt thanked Trump and the White House team in a lengthy post on X, and added that she will remain “a vocal advocate for MAGA and the Republican Party. ” “The truth is…
Read More“It’s About Time”: At 86, Gladys Nilsson Gets Her First Major Retrospective
Gladys Nilsson with curator Francesca Wilmott and preparator Ido Agranov at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, 2025. Photo: Phong Tran Recently, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento opened “Gladys Nilsson: Gleefully Askew,” the first full-career retrospective of the artist’s work: 60 years of watercolor, collage, drawing and oil painting. In her home studio in…
Read MoreThe 2026 Genesis G70 Prestige Graphite Maxes Out on Features While Amping Up Performance
The G70 Prestige Graphite represents Genesis’ push to compete more directly with established Asian luxury rivals like Lexus and Acura. Courtesy Genesis For years, Lexus, Infiniti and Acura served as the midrange luxury segment of Asian automakers. But just when these makers thought they had the market on lock, a new player entered the game.…
Read MoreWho Owns Mars? Inside the $129B Reclusive Family Behind the Candy Empire
Jacqueline Mars (center) and her granddaughters, Graysen Airth (left) and Katherine Burgstahler (right), at the formal Artist’s Dinner honoring the recipients of the 40th Annual Kennedy Center Honors at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 2, 2017. Ron Sachs-Pool/Getty Images When candy maker Mars completed its $35.9 billion acquisition of Kellanova…
Read MoreSix of the World’s Richest People Who Are Not Leaving Billions to Their Children
Some of the world’s wealthiest individuals have no plans to pass on their wealth to the next generation. Getty Images In the next two decades, the heirs of the world’s wealthiest are expected to become significantly richer. An estimated $84 trillion is expected to change hands by 2045 in what has been deemed the largest-ever…
Read MoreInside the Calvert Brothers’ Art Club for Everyone
In June, NYC Culture Club inaugurated its new gallery space at the Port Authority Midtown Bus Terminal. Photo: Parker Calvert Over the years, Clayton Calvert and Parker Calvert have made their presence a constant at art events in New York and beyond. As New Yorkers born and raised, they understood that showing up and networking…
Read MoreFine Art Insurance Is Often Worth More for What It Prevents Than What It Pays Out
Proactive due diligence, from advance planning and staff training to better data and site-specific risk assessments, can help protect irreplaceable works before a disaster occurs. Observer Lab Many collectors and art professionals think of insurers as the people to call after an accident or disaster has occurred. But prevention is better than cure, as they…
Read MoreThe Essentials With Joey Wölffer: Horses, Sag Harbor Haunts and Carrying on the Family Business
Growing up on her family’s farm in the Hamptons, Joey Wölffer was more interested in riding horses and playing with the potato bugs that inhabited the potato-field-turned-vineyard than she was in winemaking. “My dad would see things that people thought were a little nuts,” Wölffer tells Observer from her Hamptons office. “Owning a vineyard five…
Read MoreThe Bad Planning That Leaves Many Artist Estates Tangled in Lawsuits
Robert Indiana with his iconic LOVE sculpture in Central Park, New York City, in 1971. Jack Mitchell/Getty Images (Editor’s note: This article was originally published on June 4, 2018.) The end of a famous artist’s life might be thought of as a time of tributes and celebration, but not for Robert Indiana, who was beloved…
Read MoreLarry Ellison’s Decades-Long Obsession With Competitive Sailing
Larry Ellison looks on after Oracle Team USA lost race 1 of the America’s Cup Finals on June 17, 2017 in Hamilton, Bermuda. Xaume Olleros/Getty Images David Ellison’s Paramount is pursuing a $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery that remains under regulatory review. His father, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, is closely involved in the…
Read MoreAmerica’s Family-Owned Restaurant Legends, From Hamburgers to Cheesesteaks
Believe it or not, Dairy Queen did not invent its signature Blizzard. The company lifted the idea—frozen custard whipped so stiff it is served upside down to prove it will not fall out—from a Route 66 custard stand in St. Louis called Ted Drewes, which has been in the same family since 1929. The stand…
Read MoreJoshua Foulquier Built a Restaurant Around the Art His Mother Loved
The salon at Chez Fifi, featuring an oil portrait of Puri (Fifi’s mother) between the windows and a Cleve Gray work over the striped banquette. Courtesy Chez Fifi The art at Chez Fifi, David and Joshua Foulquier’s bistro tucked into an Upper East Side townhouse was not curated in the conventional sense but rather inherited.…
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