Observer New Media Power List: Call for Submissions

Observer New Media Power List: Call for Submissions

Observer’s inaugural New Media Power List recognizes the individuals who are defining how information, influence and capital move in the digital age. This is not a list about celebrity or follower counts alone, but a rigorous assessment of who holds real power in the new media ecosystem: the creators building loyal audiences outside traditional structures,…

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11 Books That Will Transform Your Understanding of Art

11 Books That Will Transform Your Understanding of Art

The realm of art is so vast that it’s impossible to know everything about it. There is always another artist, another obscure work, another point of biography or history or some other tidbit waiting to sharpen one’s artistic awareness. Even the most experienced art aficionados and scholars remain perpetual students, circling back through the past…

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Ted Sarandos, Greg Peters Fight to Lock in Netflix’s Warner Bros. Discovery Deal

Ted Sarandos, Greg Peters Fight to Lock in Netflix’s Warner Bros. Discovery Deal

Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos is lobbying Washington and shareholders to secure Netflix’s $83 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery before Paramount can derail it. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters are mounting a two-front campaign to salvage their $83 billion deal for Warner Bros. Discovery after WBD reopened the door to…

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What Sotheby’s Buyer’s Premium Increase Reveals About the Major Houses’ Evolving Commercial Strategies

What Sotheby’s Buyer’s Premium Increase Reveals About the Major Houses’ Evolving Commercial Strategies

Sotheby’s raised its buyer’s premium across its global auctions on February 13, bringing its fee structure into closer alignment with other major auction houses. Under the new structure, the buyer’s premium for sales in the U.S. increased from 27 percent on lots priced at or above $1 million to 28 percent for all works sold…

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Meet the Collector: Julia Stoschek On the Challenges and Rewards of Collecting Durational Art

Meet the Collector: Julia Stoschek On the Challenges and Rewards of Collecting Durational Art

Lu Yang, DOKU The Flow, 2024. Photo by Joshua White, courtesy Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin-based collector Julia Stoschek is widely known in the art world not only for assembling one of the world’s first and largest private collections dedicated to video art, film, performance documentation and digital practices but also for championing these mediums well…

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