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London Artist Maya Golyshkina Is a Model of Self-Promotion
The Russian-born designer/photographer transforms her body into airplanes, pizzas and cityscapes for absurdist photographs that blend sculpture and performance. With a profile built on Instagram and works sold directly to collectors, her practice is a portrait of success in the…
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The Essentials With Leslie Frank: The Orient Express, Vienna State Opera and an Excellent Napa Chardonnay
A former journalist turned Napa wine executive, Leslie Frank shares the places, products and rituals she relies on at home and on the road.
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The Best Art Galleries in Engadin Valley, Switzerland
Known for its unparalleled skiing and five-star hospitality, Switzerland's Engadin Valley has, in recent years, become a must-visit destination for art lovers and collectors.
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The 15 Standout Luxury Watches Setting the Tone for 2026
This buying guide of debut timepieces and established references proves that this year’s most compelling watches need not be either brand-new or impossible to buy.
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A Los Angeles Itinerary for Art Lovers
L.A.’s cultural riches range from encyclopedic museums and idiosyncratic galleries to design studios and architectural wonders. Our four-day guide covers where to stay, what to see and where to eat between stops.
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Kerry James Marshall’s “The Histories” Finds a Fitting Home in Paris
Following stops at Kunsthaus Zürich and the Royal Academy, the survey has landed at Musée d’Art Moderne. In more than 70 works, it traces how Marshall absorbed painting traditions to fill art history with the Black subjects it omitted.
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Norway Oil Fund CEO Nicolai Tangen Pushes Back on Tech Caps for $2 Trillion Nest Egg
Nicolai Tangen oversees a fund large enough to shape markets but bound by a public mandate. But there's tension brewing between Norway’s financial independence and its reliance on American technology.
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Armani CEO Giuseppe Marsocci Weighs Who Gets the First 15 Percent of the House
For Armani’s beauty and eyewear partners, a shareholding would add influence to longstanding licensing deals. Marsocci also has to settle how a first investment leads to the next sale.
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Executive Chairman Brunello Cucinelli Raises His Cashmere Empire’s 2026 Forecast
Brunello Cucinelli generated €1.124 billion in revenue through September and raised his 2026 growth outlook to 12 percent. Behind the numbers is his decades-long experiment in humanistic capitalism.
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AlphaSense CFO Samantha Greenberg on Wall Street, A.I. Pricing and a Possible IPO
AlphaSense CFO Samantha Greenberg says the company is absorbing significant A.I. costs as agents take over 99 percent of research on its platform.
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Ana Botín’s Santander Payouts Face a Dealmaking Test
In 2015, Ana Botín cut Santander’s dividend to strengthen the bank. Eleven years later, she is returning billions while integrating purchases in Britain and the United States.
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How David Ellison Can Reinvent His Cable Brands Without Cable
David Ellison has inherited cable brands with audiences, libraries and talent relationships. Brandon Katz argues that their next act should focus on what they offered viewers, rather than how viewers watched.
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One Fine Show: “Solid Pictures, Photosculpture and the Making of Modern Likeness”
At Stanford's Cantor Arts Center, an exhibition revisits the Parisian inventor whose ingenious, short-lived process combined photography and sculpture in the 1860s. Its pairing with contemporary art suggests how little the dream of mechanical rendering has changed.
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Elvira Dyangani Ose Wants Zeitz MOCAA to Belong to Its City
Arriving at the museum after years at Tate Modern and MACBA, the newly appointed artistic director sees its historical and spatial contradictions as a curatorial invitation. Her vision centers on collectivity, Pan-Africanism and real accountability to the communities the…
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Ukrainian Folk Art Survived Soviet Suppression. Now It’s Joining the Historical Canon.
GUNIA Project and Assouline are bringing this overlooked heritage into international focus with "Naïve My Love: Ukrainian Folk Art of the 20th Century," a book that celebrates the country’s self-taught artists while documenting a cultural legacy increasingly threatened by war.
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Luxury’s Growth Problem: Can Rarity and Sustainability Restore Its Appeal?
After decades of expansion and steep price increases, luxury faces a crisis of perceived value. Rebuilding its appeal will require more than marketing, argues IMD’s Stéphane JG Girod, brands must make scarcity meaningful and sustainability central to how they design, produce and…
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These Are the World’s Most Haunted Paintings
Museums, hotels and private collections worldwide hold canvases rumored to harbor restless spirits and malevolent energy. Their legends range from the merely eerie to the genuinely chilling.
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Inside the Making of Rockefeller Center’s First Hotel
Opening in 2027, the Nell New York is transforming vacant office floors at 10 Rockefeller Plaza into a 134-room hotel.
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A Collector’s Guide to Bangkok’s Best Art Galleries
The Thai capital rewards travelers willing to look beyond the temples with riverside art complexes, galleries in restored schoolhouses, private museums and experimental project spaces. Inside these venues, you'll find works that reflect a scene shaped by Buddhism, pop culture,…
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For Hassanein Hiridjee, Collecting Art Is a Commitment to Africa’s Future
The AXIAN Group CEO founded Fondation H, the country’s first private foundation of its kind, and has assembled a fast-growing collection of Malagasy and African artists. He sees their work as a source of identity, pride and hope for the continent’s future.