Don’t Miss: Giles Duley’s “Distortion / Memory / Resilience” at Sutton Tower

Don’t Miss: Giles Duley’s “Distortion / Memory / Resilience” at Sutton Tower

Giles Duley, Deborah Kintsugi Process, 2025. Mixed media, 104 x 74 cm. Courtesy Giles Duley 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…

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Dispatches From the Departures Gate: No Passport, No Cry

Dispatches From the Departures Gate: No Passport, No Cry

Losing another passport is scarier than eye contact with a lion, as you can see on the writer’s safari in Kenya. Katherine Parker-Magyar “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…

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Dario Amodei Hires OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy in Major Talent Win

Dario Amodei Hires OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy in Major Talent Win

Andrej Karpathy will help lead pretraining efforts at Anthropic. Photo by Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images 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…

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Sotheby’s $304M Modern Evening Auction Confirms the Market Has Found Its Footing

Sotheby’s 4M Modern Evening Auction Confirms the Market Has Found Its Footing

Sotheby’s closed the sale with a 98 percent sell-through rate and strong results for fresh-to-market works from the Barbier-Müller, Donati and Wingate collections. Photo: Julian Cassady 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…

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