Artist Olafur Eliasson brings the outside world thrillingly to life inside the art gallery

Eliasson’s work is often positioned as a harbinger alerting us to the threats of the climate emergency. In Ice Watch (2014) ...
W Magazine

At Home in São Paulo, Gallerist Pedro Mendes Lives With the Art He Champions

The cofounder of Mendes Wood DM has introduced under-recognized artists to global audiences. In his São Paulo residence, he ...
GitHub

WALL-E: World Alignment by NeuroSymbolic Learning improves World Model-based LLM Agents

WALL-E mining a diamond in Mars. Step 1-2: the agent makes decision via MPC with the initial unaligned world model, resulting in a failed action for mining iron. Step 3: leveraging previous ...
New Atlas

We’re evolving too slowly for the world we’ve built, according to science

As our evolution slows and industrialization and technology accelerates, a growing body of research suggests that human biology is struggling to keep pace. Many of the chronic stress-related health ...
The New York Times

Night of Modern Art History, Night of Spectacle at Sotheby’s

At $236.4 million, a portrait by Gustav Klimt is the second most expensive painting sold at auction, while Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet drew $12.1 million. By Zachary Small and Julia Halperin It ...
CNN

Rare Klimt painting becomes the most expensive work of modern art ever sold at auction

What do a notorious gold toilet and a nearly destroyed Klimt painting have in common? They christened Sotheby’s first sale out of its new US headquarters in New York on Tuesday evening in a buzzy, ...
CNN

Why we pay less for art made by women

A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is expected to break records when it goes up for auction in New York this week. The surrealist painting, being sold on November 20 by a private collector, ...