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The “Grosse Pièce” Sets a New Auction Record for Audemars Piguet at Sotheby’s
Audemars Piguet’s “Grosse Pièce,” which sold for $7.7 million with fees over a $1 million high estimate. Courtesy Sotheby's Sotheby’s inaugural Important Watches auction at the iconic Breuer Building...
Es Devlin’s ‘Library of Us’ Was the Rare Miami Art Week Spectacle That Invited Quiet Contemplation
Es Devlin’s Library of Us at Faena Hotel Miami Beach was much more than an Instagram attraction. Photos by Oriol Tarridas Es Devlin’s Library of Us was one of...
The Corner Store Is Taking Its Caviar-Topped Lobster Rolls and Martini Service to Las Vegas
The Corner Store is heading to Las Vegas. Emily Andrews for Rockwell Group and The Corner Store The Corner Store, which has been one of New York City’s most buzzed...
David Ellison’s Case for Paramount to Own Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison speaks during the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles on October 9, 2025. PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images On Friday, Warner Bros. Discovery’s...
Hinge Debuts A.I. Conversation Starter to Rescue Users From the ‘Dating Apocalypse’
Hinge’s newest feature uses A.I. to provide personalized conversation starters. Courtesy Hinge Hinge wants users to skip the small talk. Instead of opening with a generic “Hey,” the dating...
In New York, Sotheby’s Repositions Itself as a Cultural Destination
Sotheby’s new Breuer location is quickly becoming a cultural destination. Photograph by Emma Milligan/Sotheby’s Sotheby’s reported unprecedented attendance last month for its record-shattering $1.173 billion marquee week sales—with queues...
Meta Acquires Limiteless, an A.I. Pendant Company Backed by Sam Altman
Mark Zuckerberg attends the WSJ. Magazine 2025 Innovator Awards at MoMA on Oct. 29, 2025 in New York City. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for WSJ. Magazine Innovators Awards Meta is...
Earned Media Is Becoming the New Currency of A.I.-Driven Discovery
A shift from keyword-driven SEO to question-and-answer GEO is transforming how organizations build authority and show up in A.I.-powered discovery. Unsplash+ Earned media has never been more valuable for...
How Jorge Pardo Turns Light, Color and Form into a Phenomenology of Seeing
Installation view: “Jorge Pardo” at Petzel in 2025. Photos by Meg Symanow, courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York Known for his sensorially engaging, mesmerizing environments and installations...
Curtains and Cauldrons: The Delicate Politics of Exhibiting Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington, The Elements, 1946. Oil on panel, 35.6 x 99.8 cm. Rudman Trust Collection. © Estate of Leonora Carrington, by SIAE 2025. Photo: Vincenzo Bruno The exhibition, curated...
Robert Therrien’s Ordinary Uncanny at the Broad in L.A.
The exhibition traces Therrien’s evolution from small drawings to large-scale sculptural environments that redefine spatial experience. Photo: Joshua White Sometimes asthma is a good thing. If artist Robert Therrien...
Santa Barbara’s Best Restaurant Openings of 2025
Santa Barbara’s flourishing food and beverage scene reached new heights in 2025. Although this affluent beach town is best known for its idyllic charm, scenic mountain-meets-ocean landscape and many...