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Hanging by a Thread: Inside the Death-Defying World of Rappel Graffiti
RAMS at work on a piece 700 feet atop 161 Maiden Lane in Lower Manhattan. Photo courtesy RAMS A woman stared out her window across a narrow Giza street,...
The 2026 Whitney Biennial Delivers American Art for a Fractured Age
The 2026 Whitney Biennial 2026 runs through August. Darian DiCianno/BFA.com If the Whitney Biennial takes the temperature of American art—and of the society that produces it—the cacophony of fragments,...
A.I. Adoption Without Literacy Is a Governance Risk
From shadow A.I. to biased outputs, poor literacy is emerging as a core enterprise risk. Unsplash+ As companies race to embed A.I. into their operations, the governance debate has...
Crypto Has Been Renting Access to the Financial System. Kraken Just Bought In.
By securing direct access to the Federal Reserve’s payment system, Kraken Financial, led by co-CEO Arjun Sethi, may have solved one of crypto’s longest-standing structural problems. Photo by Paul...
Can Copyright Survive the Age of A.I.?
In classrooms and courtrooms alike, the future of copyright is being negotiated in real time. Unsplash+ Think about your favorite song, movie or musical. Then consider how you enjoy,...
Where to Stay in Santa Ynez Valley, California’s Next Great Wine Destination
9150 US-101, Los Alamos, CA 93440 Los Alamos is the farthest north of the constellation of towns that make up the central Santa Ynez Valley, but it’s worth the...
How L.A. Consolidates Cultural Capital on Its Own Terms
Various Small Fires at Frieze. Courtesy Frieze, photo: Casey Kelbaugh / CKA When Frieze adds a city to its roster, the brand imports not just a marketplace but an...
Block, A.I. and the Front-Running of the Curve
The rise of the temporal agentic operating system could redefine how companies structure human labor. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images When Jack Dorsey announced last week that Block—the parent...
The Best Fashion From the 2026 SAG Actor Awards Red Carpet
Sarah Pidgeon. Getty Images Awards season is in full swing, and tonight, it’s all about the actors. The SAG Awards are now the Actor Awards, as of November 2025,...
The Gospel of More, According to the Late Iris Apfel
No one wore a more iconic set of spectacles—those oversized black circles, thick as porthole frames, perched on a face that refused to fade into the background for 102...
