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Nvidia Billionaire Mark Stevens Funds $175M Medical School With A.I. Focus
The Stevens’ $175 million gift will establish the Bay Area’s first new medical school in more than a century. NICOLO SERTORIO/Courtesy Sutter Health Mark Stevens, an early Nvidia investor...
The 2026 Ford Mustang Mach-E Premium AWD Has Speed, Range and the Wrong Name
Ford’s decision to attach the Mustang badge to an all-electric crossover has divided opinion since the Mach-E’s debut in 2020. Courtesy Ford That old maxim on wisdom “…from the...
A Major Martin Puryear Retrospective Reveals an Artist Who Has Never Stopped Evolving
Martin Puryear, Nexus, 1979. Alaskan yellow cedar, pigment, gesso; 114.3 x 114.3 x 3.8 cm. Collection of Halley K. Harrisburg and Michael Rosenfeld, New York. Photo: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery,...
Artists to Watch: Future Fair and 1-54’s Best Discoveries
Future Fair and 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair ran a short walk from each other in Chelsea. Courtesy Future Fair Colette Levette at Gillian Jason Colette LaVette, Umbilical Roots,...
20 Extraordinary U.S. National Parks Across America
The 63 U.S. national parks are the country's shining glories—a combined 84 million acres of mountain ranges, lava deserts, swamp boardwalks, glacier-fed lakes and old-growth forests, all owned in...
Michael Botta’s Sesame Wants to Make Health Care a Cash-Pay Bargain
Michael Botta is betting that more patients will bypass insurance and pay directly for care in high-cost, opaque categories like fertility. Courtesy Sesame Michael Botta built Sesame Care on a...
Austin’s Storied Driskill Grill Returns, Now With April Bloomfield at the Helm
Austin’s historic Driskill Grill and Bar reopens today. Justin Cook MML Hospitality will debut its revamp of Austin’s historic Driskill Grill and Bar today (Monday, May 18), with a...
The Best Fashion From the 2026 Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet
Demi Moore. Getty Images It’s that time of the year when the biggest stars in cinema jet off to the South of France and say bonjour to the glitz...
Painter Renée Levin’s Unhurried Eye
Renée Levin. Courtesy Renée Levin What makes a flower petal, a pearl or a seashell special? On the canvases of Renée Levin, who paints their details writ large, the...
Five Works That Stole the Show at Frieze New York
Sarah Sze, Badlands (2026) Many years ago, I profiled Sarah Sze (b. 1969) for this publication. Digging into her work and personality, I found her to be a bona...
Photo London, Like Its Host City, Is Outward-Facing and Ever-Changing
Steven Meisel, Bella Freud, 1993. Coloredge Photo London has had a change of backdrop. After 10 years at Somerset House, the U.K.’s leading photography fair has moved five miles...
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar and Anthropic’s Krishna Rao Are Racing For Compute Power
Both about two years into their jobs, Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao (left) and OpenAI’s Sarah Friar are locked in a high-stakes race to secure compute power. Photos courtesy Anthropic/by...