Posts by Sophie Clearwater
The Most Exciting Fashion on the 2026 Met Gala Red Carpet
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky. FilmMagic Today is the first Monday in May, and that can only mean one thing—it’s time for the Met Gala, also known as the biggest night in fashion. This evening, guests who received a coveted invite to the annual fête will head to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, bringing both jaw-dropping…
Read MoreGameStop’s Activist Investor CEO Ryan Cohen Makes $56B Bid for eBay
The activist investor aims to apply his cost-cutting playbook to eBay’s ongoing turnaround. Courtesy GameStop Ryan Cohen, the billionaire activist investor and CEO of GameStop, has made a $56 billion bid to acquire eBay, marking his most ambitious deal yet. In a letter sent yesterday (May 3), GameStop offered $125 per share in a cash-and-stock…
Read MorePinta Lima Offered Curated Content–and Context–for the Curious
An energetic VIP preview kicked off the 13th edition good attendance and sales activity from the opening moments. Courtesy Pinta Lima At first glance, Pinta Lima is an art fair that’s easily absorbed: you needn’t earmark more than an hour or two to browse the 50-something booths and special presentations, if you’re merely passing time.…
Read MoreWhat to Watch in Sotheby’s Masterpieces From the Lewis Collection Sale
His trove of museum-quality 20th-century works is expected to bring in between £150 million and £200 million, potentially making it the most valuable single-owner collection ever sold in the U.K. Courtesy Sotheby’s British billionaire and art collector Joe Lewis made his fortune in currency trading and went on to own the Tottenham Hotspur football club…
Read MoreDominique Lévy, Brett Gorvy and Amalia Dayan Want to Bring Auction Urgency to Private Secondary Market Sales
Willem de Kooning’s Milkmaid (1984) will be the first work presented by LGD Hammer (estimate: $10-15 million). LGD Hammer Recent auctions have made clear that the market’s dynamism is primarily concentrated at the very top, where sustained global demand for art masterpieces is finally colliding with fresh supply as the long-anticipated generational wealth transfer begins…
Read MoreSara Flores On Bringing Shipibo-Konibo Cosmology to Peru’s Venice Pavilion
Sara Flores, representing Peru at the Venice Biennale, channels kené, a living language shaped by vision, dreams and ancestral knowledge. Musuk Nolte As Indigenous cultures come to be recognized not merely as ethnographic products but as holders of living heritage and systems of knowledge—and increasingly appreciated in their contemporary expressions—Indigenous artists have become a recurring…
Read More“Greater New York” Shows a Generation’s Resilience at the Edge of Collapse
“Greater New York” is at MoMA PS1 through August 17, 2026. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Kris Graves A poetics of impermanence is also a poetics of transition, of remnants and remainders, carrying fragments of knowledge into whatever comes next. That’s what prevails at the latest edition of MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York” survey on view…
Read MoreThe Met Gala Is Entering Its Billionaire Era With Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, are pictured at the 2024 Met Gala. Photo by Kevin Mazur/MG24/Getty Images for The Met Museum The official co-chairs of Monday’s Met Gala include Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and, of course, Anna Wintour. Yet the star-studded lineup has been overshadowed by the event’s “honorary…
Read MoreCorporate Governance in the Age of Geopolitics
From supply chains to currency flows, geopolitical forces are rewriting the rules of corporate governance. Unsplash+ A new operating landscape is here. If there are corporate boards that have not, as of spring 2026, recognized that geopolitics and geoeconomics have entered the boardroom and are completely overhauling the interiors, they may already be costing shareholders…
Read MoreFrom Standing Ovations to Surprise DJ Sets: Inside the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2026 BAM Ball
Talib Kweli at the BAM Ball afterparty. Getty Images for BAM The Brooklyn Academy of Music has never been conventional, and the same is true of its much-anticipated spring benefit gala, the annual BAM Ball. Earlier this week, a culturally clued-in crowd convened in the cavernous Adam E. Max Gathering Space for a monochromatically outfitted…
Read MoreThis Bill Gates-Backed Fusion CEO Wants to Sell Nuclear Energy Tech to Utilities
Type One CEO Chris Mowry is shifting fusion from lab wins to real utility deals. Courtesy Type One Energy Fusion energy has spent decades proving it can work. Chris Mowry, an energy industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience, is focused on something harder: proving it can sell. As CEO of Type One…
Read MorePhoto of the Month poll: Vote for the best viewer photo of April
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