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[IMG: A photograph of an auction scene at Christie’s shows auctioneer Yü‑Ge Wang on the podium, mid‑gesture, selling Gerhard Richter’s Kerze (Candle). Two large screens flank her: the left displays the sale price in multiple currencies (USD 30,000,000; EUR 25,812,000; GBP 22,524,000; CHF 23,604,000; JPY 4,768,086,000; HKD 234,798,000; CNY 204,234,000), while the right shows the lot details, including the painting’s title, date (1982), dimensions, and a photograph of the candle. The room is filled with seated bidders, some capturing the moment on phones, conveying a tense and attentive atmosphere typical of high-stakes contemporary art sales.]

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The Michelin-starred restaurant takes a relaxed approach to its presentation and dining, with ingredient-driven cuisine that honors the region.
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Michael Botta’s Sesame is building a cash-pay marketplace for patients facing higher insurance premiums and limited coverage. As insurance grows pricier and less generous, Sesame is turning opaque, expensive corners of health care into something closer to a retail purchase.
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10 Books Worth Reading Even After You’ve Seen the Movie
If these movie adaptations brought you to the theater, the books that inspired them will bring you back to the page.
By Gillian Harvey

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Global Art Biennials: Renovation, Revelation—or Repetition?
The question remains whether an alternative biennial model can exist within an art system that structurally absorbs and standardizes difference. The answer is no.
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Don’t Miss: Giles Duley’s “Distortion / Memory / Resilience” at Sutton Tower
As a photographer and storyteller, Duley documents life during war, rather than war itself, in work that is powerful, thoughtful and full of love.
By Kinvara Balfour

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Lifestyle
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Dispatches From the Departures Gate: No Passport, No Cry
A misplaced passport turns airports into existential obstacle courses where charm, luck and bureaucracy uneasily coexist.
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Sotheby’s $304M Modern Evening Auction Confirms the Market Has Found Its Footing
The auction house closed the sale with a 98 percent sell-through rate and strong results for fresh-to-market works from the Barbier-Müller, Donati and Wingate collections.
By Elisa Carollo

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Business
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Lululemon’s Boardroom Fight With Founder Chip Wilson Gets Public—and Personal
Chip Wilson is trying to reshape Lululemon’s board, but the company says his views are outdated and damaging to the brand.
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Arts
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Phillips’ $115.2 Million Evening Sale Was a Testament to the Power of Pre-Planning and Priority Bidding
Achieving more than double last year’s total, the white-glove Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale was led by standout works by Warhol, Monet and Richter.
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Culture
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Letters to the Editor: Remembering Rex Reed
Friends, colleagues and fans share their memories of Rex Reed—the reviews that changed their lives, the letters he sent back, and the man who made a generation of young gay men feel seen. A compilation of tributes to the legendary critic.
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At the Park Avenue Armory, art history was written and recontextualized in real time.
By Elisa Carollo

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Arts
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Inside Rex Reed’s Dakota: An Afternoon of Unrepentant Opinions and Hollywood Tales
“I joked for years that I was going to write a book that I was saved by lemon meringue pie,” Rex Reed told me in 2022, recounting the night he skipped dinner at Sharon Tate’s house. “I’m telling you, I’ve got a million of these stories.”
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Haute horology is as much about artistic innovation as it is about mechanical ingenuity.
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Steve Huffman on How Reddit Powers A.I. and Rebuilds Itself With It
Steve Huffman says Reddit powers A.I. with its data while deploying A.I. for moderation, search and product features.

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Of ballet, designer Zac Posen told Observer, "I think it's as important as eating, sleeping and making love. I think it’s part of humanity."
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[IMG: A neoclassical museum hall with white columns and sculptures is occupied by a large, low rectangular structure supported by cylindrical pillars, its underside covered in printed newspaper pages and hovering over a tiled floor bordered by green carpet.]

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The Carnegie International Tests What “We” Still Means in a Fractured World
Following the suggested exhibition path is disorienting—the survey is deeply integrated into the collection, yet lacks a clear logic, turning the journey into a kind of scavenger hunt where visitors must identify which rooms belong to the quadrennial and which to the collection.
By Elisa Carollo

[IMG: Small statue busts are displayed on neon yellow plinths in a gallery space with white walls and a dark floor]

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By Naima Morelli

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Shaggy, a Perfect Sunset and $6.3 Million: Inside the 2026 Whitney Gala

By Michaela Zee

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By Stephen Garrett

[IMG: A highly detailed silver sculpture resembling a human face, displayed on a white pedestal in a circular, ornately carved wooden hall with additional busts on stands in the background.]

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Barry X Ball Connects the Secular and Sacred in “The Shape of Time”

By Madeleine Seidel

[IMG: A photograph of an auction scene at Christie’s shows auctioneer Yü‑Ge Wang on the podium, mid‑gesture, selling Gerhard Richter’s Kerze (Candle). Two large screens flank her: the left displays the sale price in multiple currencies (USD 30,000,000; EUR 25,812,000; GBP 22,524,000; CHF 23,604,000; JPY 4,768,086,000; HKD 234,798,000; CNY 204,234,000), while the right shows the lot details, including the painting’s title, date (1982), dimensions, and a photograph of the candle. The room is filled with seated bidders, some capturing the moment on phones, conveying a tense and attentive atmosphere typical of high-stakes contemporary art sales.]

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By Gillian Harvey

[IMG: An indoor garden installation fills a gallery with soil, rocks, trees and plants.]

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Global Art Biennials: Renovation, Revelation—or Repetition?

By Paco Barragán

[IMG: A grid of torn black-and-white portraits is repaired with thin gold lines.]

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[IMG: An auctioneer leads Sotheby’s Modern Evening Auction as Henri Matisse’s La Séance du matin appears on the screen beside a $17.5 million bid.]

[H2]
Sotheby’s $304M Modern Evening Auction Confirms the Market Has Found Its Footing

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[IMG: A Phillips auctioneer takes bids in a packed saleroom as Andy Warhol’s Sixteen Jackies appears on the screen beside its estimate.]

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Phillips’ $115.2 Million Evening Sale Was a Testament to the Power of Pre-Planning and Priority Bidding

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Letters to the Editor: Remembering Rex Reed

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[IMG: Rex, Maximilian Schell and Jacqueline (Jackie) Susann in 1974.]

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SpaceX’s long-awaited IPO filing puts COO Gwynne Shotwell, CFO Bret Johnsen and a small circle of early backers in line for multibillionaire paydays.
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[IMG: Lululemon founder Chip Wilson speaking onstage.]

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[IMG: An orange McLaren 750S drives along a desert highway with mountains and dry brush blurred in the background.]

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The 2026 McLaren 750S Spider Is Thoroughly, Deliberately and Delightfully Impractical

By John Scott Lewinski

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