The fair's most compelling booths told stories the mainstream art world has been too slow to tell.

The city's best-dressed under-45s responded to this year's theme, Travel Through Time, with an unforgettable array of ensembles inspired by the highly anticipated "Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture" exhibition.

Cate Blanchett led the art world in toasting the museum's 30th.

The XPrize founder is inviting filmmakers to pitch optimistic sci-fi worlds, one of which will be turned into a feature film.

A new exhibition at the Brant Foundation focuses on the three years in which the artist went from graffiti prankster to one of the most consequential artists of his generation.

WeFi’s Maksym Sakharov maps a series of developments that, taken together, signal the end of finance’s walled-garden model: Apollo Global acquiring a stake in lending protocol Morpho, BlackRock making its $2.5 billion BUIDL fund available as on-chain collateral and a CGI survey revealing that nearly 80 percent of companies are already diversifying their banking relationships to manage counterparty risk.

Few dealers have done more to reshape how Chinese art is understood internationally than Lam, who has spent more than three decades insisting on both its distinctiveness and its deep resonances with the broader world.

As commodity prices in 2026 break from historical patterns, Mind Money’s Edward Nikulin makes the case that weather is no longer a background variable but a primary driver of price formation. With traditional models still built around monetary policy signals and confirmed data releases, the gap between physical conditions on the ground and what gets reflected in prices is widening.

It was Aspen by way of Park Avenue.

At 29, Luana Lara is scaling Kalshi from a controversial startup into a global prediction market with institutional backing and explosive user growth.

From Michelin-starred spots to bohemian East Village gems, these 12 restaurants prove New York City's vegan scene is better than ever. af

“I’m always trying to get better. The great enemy of restaurateurs is complacency and overconfidence,” Jeremy King tells Observer.

Through obsessive repetition and meticulous craftsmanship, he transforms fragile remnants of the physical world into treatises on entropy, perception and the cycles of transformation that structure reality.

Our key takeaways from the most recent Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report.

An unlikely space is making a compelling argument for what art can look like when you keep gatekeeping to a minimum.

Alcor CEO James Arrowood discusses cryonics, wealthy clients and the stakes behind preserving bodies for the future. "I'm talking to billionaires when they're dying," he told Observer. "None of them care about their bank balance, they don't even know how much money they have... It's about relationships, and it's about their legacy."

Orchard's figures hold their secrets close—aloof by design, tender by effect.

With caviar popsicles, martini carts and dry-aged steaks, the Vegas-born steakhouse lands in Midtown with a more polished kind of spectacle.

From Tribeca walks to classic eateries, discover the real places JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy loved in New York City.

In the artist’s world, everything—from apples and oranges to the buttocks of bathers—was worthy of the same obsessive, borderline-theological attention.