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The Best Men’s Workout Brands You’re Not Already Wearing
Guys have long granted workout clothes a strange exemption from the rest of the wardrobe. A jacket could be judged by the roll of its lapel, while the shirt...
Travel Has Long Been an Elite Educational Advantage. Public Schools Can Change That.
Travel and experiential learning can help students develop the distinctly human skills they will need in an economy increasingly shaped by A.I. Unsplash+ For generations, international travel, summer programs...
David Norr Says He Measures Artists’ Careers in Decades, Not Market Cycles
David Norr joined James Cohan Gallery from the Wexner Center in 2015 Photo: Axel Dupeux, courtesy of NORR COHAN Last month James Cohan Gallery announced that it would become...
In Books, the California Promise and a Century of Reinvention
'Cannery Row' by John Steinbeck John Steinbeck is the novelist of early California. His canonical works, namely Of Mice and Men and the epics East of Eden and The...
How Aspen Became the Art World’s Most Exclusive Summer Camp
A highlight of this year’s Aspen Art week was the unveiling of Jorge M. Pérez’s 200-acre sculpture park on Snowmass Mountain. Photo: Elisa Carollo for Observer The Resnick Center...
Photographer Steven Seidenberg On Capturing Temporality and Decay
Steven Seidenberg, Untitled, from his series The Architecture of Silence: Abandoned Lives of the Italian South. Courtesy of the artist Too often, photographers play with images of ruin aesthetics...
How Venice and New Media Art Are Making the White Cube Increasingly Obsolete
Installation view: “Robert Gober: The Heart is Not a Metaphor,” 2015. Photograph by Thomas Griesel Every two years, the Venice Biennale stages a series of curatorial exercises in direct...
FEMSA Has Spent 50 Years Building a More Complete Record of Latin American Art
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One Fine Show: “The Renaissance Engraver at Work” at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Battle of the Nudes, 1470-80s. Engraving; image: 42 x 60.4 cm; sheet: 42.4 x 60.9 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H....
The 2026 BMW 550e xDrive Downplays Looks But Delivers on Power
The eighth-generation 5 Series drops its long-standing rear-wheel-drive layout in favor of all-wheel-drive xDrive and an eight-speed Steptronic Sport transmission. Photo: Daniel Kraus, courtesy BMW The BMW 550e xDrive...
Catherine Opie’s Norwegian Landscapes Are Portraits in Disguise
Catherine Opie, Circle of Ice, 2024. © Catherine Opie. Courtesy the artist; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, London, and Seoul; Thomas Dane Gallery. London...
The Founding Director of Mathaf Returns to Doha for Art Basel Qatar’s Second Edition
Wassan Al-Khudhairi inherits a curated fair that attracted more than 600 gallery applications for 87 spots in its debut edition. Photo by Jim Lafferty. Courtesy of Wassan Al-Khudhairi Earlier...