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Economist Jane Liu, Ph.D. examines what the return of 7 percent mortgage rates reveals about the broader economy. Liu looks beyond housing to explore how persistent…
The Paramount CEO is inheriting the profitable streaming business David Zaslav spent years building, along with a debt sale that left bond investors nursing losses.
Jassy sold Wall Street on Alexa as a shopping engine. At Amazon's fall hardware event, it mostly learned to pick movies.
Built to be serviced and handed down, fine timepieces already have an environmental advantage over other accessories, but these particular watches from ID Genève…
Inspired by high-end dining in Japan, the former Apple executive is making California wines designed specifically for sushi and omakase.
In the fine art world, one increasingly hears terms like "ethical" and "sustainable" used in reference to art advising, installation practices, upcycled mediums and even…
The art world is a fickle place. One day you’re planning its conquest; the next you’re fighting to survive. Yet according to dealer Georges Bergès, the trajectories of…
Museum directors and conservators describe taking increasingly proactive measures to protect artwork from the effects of climate change, including hiring art-savvy…
Alexander Bradford, who leads business development and sustainability at global fine art logistics company Gander & White, explores how the art world is beginning to…
Museu Bernardo Paz, currently under construction on 311 acres adjoining Instituto Inhotim, will unveil its first pavilions in September 2027. Chief curatorial advisor…
For much of the past two decades, luxury watches seemed to move in only one direction: bigger. Cases stretched past 40 millimeters and sports watches grew increasingly…
Dario Amodei’s call to pace frontier A.I. raises a more practical question: how can the industry slow deployment without slowing innovation? Uniphore’s Umesh Sachdev…
From the first PSL through Red Cup Day, Starbucks' busiest stretch is the real stress test for Niccol's 'Back to Starbucks' overhaul.
Where figures like Mouna Ayoub, Azzedine Alaïa and Daphne Guinness once assembled private couture archives, a broad new audience of young buyers sees storied handbags…
Dario Amodei is betting more than $518 billion on AI infrastructure. The contracts behind that wager show how much certainty the leaders supplying chips and cloud…
The Salvadoran painter's work can be found in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, MOLAA, the Colección Mario Cader-Frech and the Poma Family…
Seven addresses for vintage fashion and inventive reuse, with meals shaped by the harvest and a small hotel on rue des Martyrs.
Crowe has turned a self-imposed sourcing constraint into a tasting menu built on the breadth of what Britain can produce.
The luxury industry is redefining status as consumers increasingly look beyond logos to craftsmanship, provenance and the origins of what they buy. RIISE’s Sara Bell…
For decades, luxury houses have expanded from products into stores, hotels, restaurants and other experiences. From Dior’s Milan flagship to Dubai’s transformation into…
Making climate-conscious art at scale and in public is arduous, expensive and often exhausting. Agnes Denes, Mary Mattingly, Maya Lin and their peers have built…
The trail expands on the $1.4 billion tri-government investment reshaping Toronto's waterfront through flood protection, environmental restoration and new public spaces…
The auction house’s newly appointed chief executive plans to leverage Freeman's strong local networks and estate expertise, along with new technology and a less rigid…
'Châtaignier en fleurs roses et blanches' leads a dozen Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces by Cézanne, Renoir, Degas and their peers owned by the…
