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Mia Westerlund Roosen’s Ongoing Material Inquiry
Mia Westerlund Roosen’s Heat (background) and Conical (foreground), both from 1981, on view at Nunu Fine Art. Photo: Martin Seck, courtesy the artist and Nunu Fine Art Multidisciplinary artist...
From Soil to Still: The Master of Botanicals Rethinking Sustainability in Premium Spirits
From Murcia’s lemon groves to Vietnam’s cassia forests, Garneri details how sustainability begins long before distillation. Jon Enoch This Q&A is part of Observer’s Expert Insights series, where industry leaders,...
Masterpieces from Agnes Gund’s Collection Will Headline Christie’s May Marquee Auctions
Agnes Gund left behind an unmatched legacy of advocacy and collecting. CHRISTIE'S IMAGES LTD. 2026 The passing of Agnes Gund in September 2025 marked not only a tragic loss...
The A.I. Boom Is Stress-Testing America’s Power Grid
Explosive A.I. growth is compressing decades of grid planning into years, forcing utilities and investors to rethink infrastructure. Unsplash+ Artificial intelligence has quickly become the focal point of nearly...
Why Bill Ackman Is Making a $2B Bet on Mark Zuckerberg’s A.I. Vision
Bill Ackman’s $2 billion Meta investment signals confidence in Zuckerberg’s long-term A.I. strategy. Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Meta’s reputation as one of Silicon Valley’s biggest...
Osaka’s Long-Overdue Luxury Hotel Moment Has Arrived
Osaka is not Tokyo. It has never tried to be. Whereas the country’s capital exudes a buttoned-up beauty and a cosmopolitan charisma found in only a handful of global...
One Fine Show: “Michael Rakowitz, Proxies for Poets and Palaces” at the Stavanger Art Museum
Michael Rakowitz, The Ballad Special Ops Cody, 2017. Photo: Erik Sæter Jørgensen, Courtesy the Stavanger Art Museum Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at...
London School Icons from the Lewis Collection Will Headline Sotheby’s March Sales
Francis Bacon, Self-Portrait, 1972.
Estimate: £8-12 million. Courtesy Sotheby's As the London auctions approach in March, we are beginning to learn more about the major consignments the top houses...
A First Safari in the Serengeti, Where Every Drive Is a Game Drive
Welcome to the Serengeti. Courtesy Four Seasons One of the first things I learned on safari is that every drive is a game drive. I landed at Seronera Airstrip...
Elon Musk Loses Half of xAI’s Founding Team—Where They’ve Gone Next
Elon Musk’s xAI has lost half of its 12-person founding team. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Just days after Elon Musk merged his A.I. startup, xAI, with SpaceX in...
In Chicago, Yoonshin Park Explores the Boundaries of the Book
Park’s work explores the boundaries of the book as both object and language, inviting viewers to “read” through form, texture and absence. Courtesy Hyde Park Art Center “Sometimes stories...
Starting in the Dominican Republic, Elsa Maldonado and Nicole Bainov Are Forging Global Pathways for Caribbean Art
Installation view: “The Fragility of Ancestral Time” at Casa Velazquez in Santo Domingo. Courtesy Heliconia Projects While contemporary Caribbean artists—particularly those working within the diaspora—are beginning to receive greater...