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Harvard’s $2.2B SpaceX Stake Shows How Elite Universities Invest in Tech
[ad_1] Yale University’s Chief Investment Officer Matt Mendelsohn (right) talks to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy (left) at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in 2025. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Last...
How Lilly Pulitzer Outlasted the Preppy Cliché
[ad_1] Lilly Pulitzer in her first Palm Beach shop, circa 1964. Lilly Pulitzer There was a time, not so long ago, when Lilly Pulitzer evoked images of sorority girls at...
Preppy Style, All Grown Up: The 17 Pieces That Still Work
[ad_1] Prep is the only American dress code that arrives with extracurriculars and a recommendation letter. Yet for all its American self-confidence, most of the kit arrived from overseas. Button-down...
Catherine Opie’s Norwegian Landscapes Are Portraits in Disguise
[ad_1] Catherine Opie, Circle of Ice, 2024. © Catherine Opie. Courtesy the artist; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, London, and Seoul; Thomas Dane Gallery. London...
My Unsentimental Education: Cupid Has Flown the Co-Op (The End of Love in Manhattan)
[ad_1] Chris Noth and Sarah Jessica Parker in a scene for ‘Sex in the City’ Corbis/VCG via Getty Images (Editor’s note: This article was originally published on February 13, 1995.)...
Meet Herbert Wertheim, the Billionaire Who Paid $40M for Ferrari’s First EV
[ad_1] The 87-year-old inventor, investor and Mar-a-Lago regular paid more than 35 times the Ferrari Luce’s approximate $630,000 MSRP. Patrick McMullan via Getty Image At Monterey Car Week in California...
The Founding Director of Mathaf Returns to Doha for Art Basel Qatar’s Second Edition
[ad_1] Wassan Al-Khudhairi inherits a curated fair that attracted more than 600 gallery applications for 87 spots in its debut edition. Photo by Jim Lafferty. Courtesy of Wassan Al-Khudhairi Earlier...
To Prepare Students for the A.I. Age, Invest in International Education
[ad_1] The future of work will require more than technological fluency, making the cross-cultural communication, adaptability and judgment developed abroad increasingly valuable. Unsplash+ As college students prepare for the start...
Thomas Houseago Makes Ancient Objects Speak to Our Violent Present
[ad_1] Installation view: Thomas Houseago’s “Death’s Sacred Mirror” at Lévy Gorvy Dayan in London. Damian Griffiths The greatest artists are those who confront the history of humanity, questioning how to...
Performa’s Broadway Benefit Brought Fresh Magic to an Old Format
[ad_1] Fragments of Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (Questions). Courtesy Performa, photo: Elyse Mertz There was a certain New York magic last Wednesday night—an unknown and unexpected thrill in the air. Knicks...
One Fine Show: “Louise Nevelson, Mrs. N’s Palace” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz
[ad_1] Louise Nevelson, Sky Cathedral III, 1959. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo. Photo: Marjon Gemmeke; © Collection Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo; © Estate of Louise Nevelson, licensed by Artist Rights Society (ARS), NY/ADAGP,...
Across the Major Houses, Hong Kong’s March Sales Confirm a New Collecting Maturity
[ad_1] Christie’s closed its 20th/21st Century Evening Sale in Hong Kong with a white-glove HK$ 655.7 million total, while Phillips’ Evening Sale achieved HK$49.5 and Sotheby’s achieved HK$548 million. CHRISTIE’S...