The swimming pool was blue. Not the blue of a real pool, but the blue of a place that exists only in memory—flat, electric, impossible. David Hockney painted it in Los Angeles in 1972. His dealer sold it that same year for $18,000. In 2018, the same painting, *Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two […]
The Tailor of Gloucester clock used to draw children to a specific corner of the Eastgate Shopping Centre. They would stand beneath it, waiting for the figurines to stir—Beatrix Potter’s mice and tailors, the characters from the Christmas story she set in this city. The clock broke. The parts could not be sourced. In 2013, […]
President Donald Trump announced from the Oval Office on Thursday that the United States had reached “a great settlement of the war with Iran,” claiming documents were in “pretty final shape” and predicting a signing “maybe in Europe” within days. Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, responded hours later on state TV, saying that reports […]
The gavel fell on Lot 1 at just past seven. Forty minutes later, $630 million had changed hands. Jackson Pollock’s *Number 7A, 1948*—a drip painting of a scale few private hands still hold—climbed past $100 million, then $150 million, then landed at $181.2 million with fees. Applause. The previous Pollock record, set in 2021, was […]
The door is unlabelled. It sits at the base of a shallow ramp, heavy, designed to be missed. Above it, bare rock and empty sky. The Atacama Desert does not announce the Residencia. It hides it. The building sinks into the landscape the way a Bond villain’s lair sinks into a mountainside—and for the same […]
The blinds stayed closed. Vivian Panka opened them slightly to make the video, then closed them again. She had not left her house since the trouble started. Fires in the street. Planned protests outside the theatre. The first Black actress to play Regina George in the Mean Girls UK tour, speaking into her phone on […]
The scissors moved before the camera did. A young German woman, 26 years old, bent over a glass plate lit from below. Her hands adjusted jointed cardboard figures—princes, sorcerers, flying horses—one frame at a time. Above her, a camera mounted on a tall scaffold shot downward through multiple layers of glass. On one layer, the […]
The columns do not look like columns. They branch upward like trees, splitting at angles that feel vegetal rather than architectural. Stand in the nave of Barcelona’s Sagrada Família at the right hour—oranges and reds bleeding through the western stained glass—and the weight above you seems to disappear. It does not disappear. Each tree-column carries […]
The columns sat in a shallow pond in the Hudson Valley, murky with local soil and water, pulsing with life too small to see. Acid green. Coffee brown. Layers forming over two years in a heated barn under UV lights. Anicka Yi had not painted them. She had not sculpted them. She had set the […]
Brent crude jumped $2 in minutes. The number on the screen hit $94.16 before settling. The trigger was not a strike. It was a Truth Social post. Donald Trump wrote that the US would hit Iran “very hard tonight” and would “assume total control” of Iran’s oil and gas markets. Then he named the target: […]
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