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Daniel Patterson and Sarah Lewitinn’s Jacaranda Plays to Its Own Beat
Chef Daniel Patterson and Sarah Lewitinn. Stefan Smith Daniel Patterson and Sarah Lewitinn want their new Los Angeles restaurant to be a fine-dining destination with dinner-party vibes. So at...
Kwame Onwuachi Debuts Maroon, a Game-Changing Afro-Caribbean Steakhouse in Las Vegas
Chef Kwame Onwuachi at the grand opening of Maroon. Bryan Steffy / Getty Images for SAHARA Las Vegas “Don’t say anything,” chef Kwame Onwuachi told Observer on Saturday night...
How Frieze New York Is Doubling Down On Engagement and Institutional Reach
Each year, Frieze anchors New York City’s spring art week. Casey Kelbaugh/CKA There are now more than eight fairs overlapping in New York in May, but Frieze New York...
In the Polish Pavilion, “Liquid Tongues” Rewrites Our Hierarchy of the Senses
The installation invites a sensorial immersion that unsettles the ordinary hierarchies of sense and language. At its core is Choir in Motion (Chór w Ruchu), a group of hearing...
Wolfgang Puck’s Generational Tasting Tour Is a Window Into His Past, Present and Future
Wolfgang Puck and his son, Byron Lazaroff-Puck, at the Generational Tasting Tour dinner in Las Vegas. Wolfgang Puck “The thing that makes me proudest is longevity,” Wolfgang Puck told...
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...
GameStop’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...
Pinta 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...
What 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...
Dominique 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...
Sara 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...
“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...