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A Collector’s Guide to Bangkok’s Best Art Galleries

The Thai capital rewards travelers willing to look beyond the temples with riverside art complexes, galleries in restored schoolhouses, private museums and experimental project spaces. These ...
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For Hassanein Hiridjee, Collecting Art Is a Commitment to Africa’s Future

The AXIAN Group CEO founded Fondation H, the country’s first private foundation of its kind, and has assembled a fast-growing ...
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ICOM’s New Ethics Code Reconsiders What Museums Owe the Public

Adopted this year, the revised guidelines ask institutions to serve as inclusive, reparative spaces while confronting A.I., ...
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The Hotel Breakfasts That Turn the First Meal Into the Main Event

From gold-leaf dining rooms in Paris and Champagne buffets in Ibiza to canoe deliveries in Bora Bora and giraffes at the ...
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Anthony Noto Puts $25 Billion of SoFi Card Volume on Stablecoin Rails

SoFi is migrating more than $25 billion in annualized debit and credit card volume to settlement using SoFiUSD. Record earnings give CEO Anthony Noto room to test whether the infrastructure can ...
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Ryan McInerney Finally Gets Visa a Path Into China’s Domestic Card Market

Visa has preliminary approval to build a domestic clearing business in China. CEO Ryan McInerney enters the push after a ...
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Observer’s 2026 November Art Fair Calendar

Traditionally, November is one of the quieter stretches on the global art fair calendar, largely because its lineup is so ...
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How Masa Takayama Created a Culinary Empire on His Own Terms

At Tobi Masa, Takayama reflects on the risks, reinventions and uncompromising approach that shaped a restaurant career ...
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Margarita Kallas-Lee and Phillip Frankland Lee Set Their Sights on Three Michelin Stars

The Scratch Restaurants co-owners already operate 30 venues across the United States. Now, they’re gearing up to debut an inn ...
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Chris and Harris Pappas Let Diners Land Helicopters at Pappas Bros. Until the FAA Found Out

Chris and Harris Pappas run more than 80 restaurants across eight states, and their CEO started as a college waiter. The 2026 Nightlife & Dining Power List honorees talk about putting the ...
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Carnegie Deli’s Sarri Harper Isn’t Shrinking the Sandwich

Nearly a decade after Carnegie Deli closed its original dining room, Sarri Harper has reopened it one block south, in the space Stage Deli once occupied. The 2026 Nightlife & Dining Power ...
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With FUZE, John Cox Is Carving Pathways Between the Caribbean’s Scenes and the Broader Art World

Now in its fourth edition, FUZE Caribbean Art Fair is helping position the Bahamas as a meeting point for the region’s ...