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After Losing Two Fairs, Vienna’s Galleries Built One Together

Astoria Artshow is “a very important” and “very innovative” addition to Vienna’s art scene, according to Bärbel Vischer, ...
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Starbucks’ CSO Shake-Up Raises Questions About Corporate Climate Commitments

As Starbucks reorganizes its sustainability function, Kaleidoscope’s Sandhya Sabapathy examines why corporate climate ...
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Munch, Black Metal and the Nobel Peace Center: A Guide to the Art of Oslo

This city is an entryway into Scandinavia, into Norway and into a society and aesthetic that feels familiar yet is uniquely ...
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Miami’s 7 Most Exciting Restaurant Openings This October

October brings fresh pasta, Filipino cooking, vintage-spirit cocktails and a José Andrés comeback to neighborhoods across ...
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One Fine Show: “Mary Cassatt, After Impressionism” at the Art Institute of Chicago

The museum’s survey reframes the artist as a radical printmaker and an uncompromising figure who preferred the title ...
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A.I.’s Power Problem: How Data Centers Hold the Key to a Greener Future

North’s Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinsson explores the rising tension between A.I. growth and ESG commitments, and why resolving ...
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As Google, OpenAI and Meta Push A.I. Agents, Enterprises Need Models That Think Less

The next breakthrough in enterprise A.I. may not come from models that reason more deeply, but from systems that know when to rely on established rules instead. Campfire’s John Glasgow argues that ...
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Austin’s Ostillo Art Foundation Wants to Challenge How Texas Sees Art

Collector René Campos and founding director Sacha Zerbib are opening Campos’s private collection to the public while carving ...
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At Copenhagen’s Koan, Kristian Baumann Turns a Dual Identity Into a Culinary Strength

Baumann’s 18-course menu moves between Korea and Denmark, using fermentation, seafood and memory to turn the space between ...
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Ragnar Kjartansson Makes the Familiar Strange at Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Politics of the Obvious,” part of the AKG Art Museum’s initiative devoted to art from the Nordic region, centers on works ...
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Eight Books That Illuminate the Brilliance and Biases of the Nobel Prize

Works by Ishiguro, Wiesel and Feynman show the range of achievement the honor has recognized, while other selections confront ...
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Alex Karp, Palmer Luckey and the Pentagon’s New Defense-Tech Order

Alex Karp’s Palantir and Palmer Luckey’s Anduril hold Army agreements worth up to $30 billion combined. New October contracts ...