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Trust-Based Funding Works. So Why Are Artists Still Living in Precarity?
Artist Leo Robinson received an unconditional fellowship from the Arts Foundation in 2025. Photo: Anne Tetzlaff For emergent artists, the path into a sustainable career has rarely felt narrower....
ServiceNow’s Customer Chief Warns ‘Tokenmaxxing’ Is an A.I. Hype Cycle
Even as A.I. token use explodes, some executives warn it risks becoming a vanity metric. Unsplash Tech workers are burning through massive amounts of A.I. compute in a race...
Author Alexa Yasemin Brahme’s Best Books to Read When You Don’t Know What the Hell You’re Doing
'In Other Words' by Jhumpa Lahiri  Every one of Lahiri's books has helped me in my quest for being, but I've chosen In Other Words for this list because...
Ryan Cohen’s ‘Sell on eBay to Buy eBay’ Stunt Puzzles Investors
The GameStop CEO is commanding attention even as investors struggle to make sense of his plan. Courtesy GameStop Baseball cards, video games, an old iPhone and a painting of...
How Omaha Feels Different Without Warren Buffett at Berkshire Weekend
The famed Berkshire meeting draws a smaller, more domestic crowd, impacting tourism as Buffett hands leadership to Greg Abel. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images David Kass, a finance professor...
At Jeffrey Deitch and Matthew Marks, Charles Ray Is Still Full of Surprises
Charles Ray, Firetruck, 1993. Painted aluminum, fiberglass and Plexiglass, 144 x 96 x 558 inches (365.76 x 1417.32 x 243.84 cm.). © Charles Ray, Courtesy Jeffrey Deitch. Photo by...
At the New Museum Spring Gala, the Art World Turned Out for Lisa Phillips
John Waters and Jeff Koons Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com After nearly three decades at the helm of the New Museum, former director Lisa Phillips deserved a sendoff worthy of the institution,...
Dabin Ahn’s “Nocturne” and the Slow Meditative Work of Grief
Dabin Ahn’s “Nocturne” is at DOCUMENT in Chicago through June 6, 2026. Courtesy DOCUMENT and the artist Experts describe the psyche as an amalgamation of both conscious and unconscious...
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
Cara Delevingne. Getty Images for The Met Museum/ Today is the first Monday in May, and that can only mean one thing—it’s time for the Met Gala, also known...
“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...
The 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...