Rashid Johnson in Gabriela Hearst’s ready-to-wear fall 2025 line at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, 2025. Giovanni Giannoni/WWD This week, fashion designer Gabriela Hearst debuted her latest ready-to-wear fall 2025 line at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris as part of the city’s fashion week. Those in the crowd may have noticed some familiar …
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Basquiat’s 1984 picture Sabado por la Noche (Saturday Night) Christie’s Images Ltd. 2025 A punchy hot pink and maroon painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat will be the top lot at Christie’s upcoming 20th/21st century evening sale in Hong Kong on March 28. Titled Sabado por la Noche (Saturday Night), the 6.5 foot by 7.5 foot work was …
The Temple of Karnak in Luxor, Egypt, 2012. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Archaeologists have discovered a collection of jewelry dating back to the early 26th Dynasty during excavation work in the northwestern part of the Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt. The Temple of Karnak is one of Egypt’s most significant complexes, boasting as many as 20 …
Pritzker Prize winner Liu Jiakun’s West Village complex. photo courtesy of Chen Chen Liu Jiakun, a Chengdu-based architect known for his sensitive, place-driven approach to design, has been awarded the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the most prestigious honor in architecture. Liu, who has spent decades crafting a body of work rooted in the traditions and materials of …
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Ron Burkle (L) with Soho House’s ex-CEO Nick Jones: Burkle and his affiliated firms collectively own 62.3 percent of voting power of Soho House’s voting stock. Dave Benett Securities law firm Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP (BFA) announced Friday that it is investigating Soho House, its board of directors, and its controlling stockholders for potential …
Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary evening sale in London generated more than £62.5 million, an iota shy of the auction’s £66 million high estimate. courtesy Sotheby’s In the hour before Sotheby’s kicked off its midseason Modern and Contemporary evening sale in London Tuesday, a group of specialists huddled together outside The Windmill, a pub around the …
Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. Courtesy AFP via Getty Images If you’ve ever wanted to own a piece of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, now is your chance! In an effort to raise funds to support France’s endangered religious landmarks and heritage sites, the medieval Catholic cathedral is raffling off around 50 stones from the iconic …
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The painting, titled ‘Elimar,’ came fire from experts who argued it is by Danish artist, Henning Elimar. But LMI has come out fighting. Courtesy LMI Group International New York-based art research firm LMI International has come out fighting following the backlash it faced last month, when it claimed a painting titled Elimar bought at a …
Scene 32 of the Bayeux Tapestry showing men staring at Halley’s Comet. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons A fragment of the Medieval Bayeux Tapestry has been found at the Schleswig-Holstein State archive in northern Germany, the Canberra Times reported. The famous embroidered tapestry depicts the Norman invasion of England by the Duke of Normandy in 1066. It …
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A protest at the White House in February. Photo Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images A branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has sued the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a federal organization that provides funding to many major arts centers across the US. In a lawsuit filed on Thursday, the ACLU’s Rhode Island offshoot …
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