Walking into the crowded hotel conference room, Andrew Batey looked like any other tech guy attending ETHDenver, an annual cryptocurrency conference. A venture capital investor based in Florida, Mr. Batey wore a black sweatshirt emblazoned with the logos of more than a dozen crypto companies, with names like LunarCrush and …
Something about sneaking up to the summits of skyscrapers and bridges, feeling the rush of the wind, the grip of the heights and the awe of the view, then making photographs that tried to capture the sensation, gave Isaac Wright an overwhelming sense of joy and freedom. But not far …
On a frigid day in early January, as she worked in her office in the Boston suburb of Billerica, Mass., Siyu Huang received a two-word text message. “Spinning wheels,” it said. Attached was a short video clip showing a car on rollers in an indoor testing center. To the untrained …
It was a Thursday night in early May, and Durga Chew-Bose was crossing Sixth Avenue with a serious expression. She was leaving the IFC Center, a movie theater in Greenwich Village where, when she lived in New York, she had gone to see art house films with a crew of …
“To get here, it hasn’t been a yellow brick road. Even now, it’s not no damn yellow brick road,” the trumpeter and composer Brandon Woody said on a video call from a Fort Myers, Fla., hotel room. It was mid-March and Woody, 26, was in between tour stops supporting Luther …
The abstract artist Robert Mangold has been so remarkably consistent and disciplined with his approach to painting and drawing that he makes pretty much everyone else look capricious and changeable. Mangold has been exploring geometry, form and color for more than 60 years, with a half-century of that time on …
The Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller is, by any measure, enormously successful. He’s produced (always in collaboration with others) about 10 shows that have, collectively, grossed $4.74 billion, approximately one-third of which was profit for producers, investors and others. You’ve probably heard of several of those shows. His first big hit …
Warren E. Buffett’s approach to investing is deceptively simple. “Forget what you know about buying fair businesses at wonderful prices; instead, buy wonderful businesses at fair prices,” he once wrote to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, his business conglomerate. This method — known as value investing — had existed long before …
On the SoHo corner where Prince and Elizabeth Streets meet, dog walkers, errand runners and lunch breakers squinted through the April sun at the part man, part beat-emanating automaton approaching them. Ari Miller, 25, known by his artist name AriAtHome, is a New York-based wayfaring musician who turns heads with …
The pieces couples acquire when decorating their first home are often significant. Few purchases, though, prove as influential as the one made by the Neustadts in 1935. The newlyweds were browsing tchotchkes in a secondhand store in Manhattan when Hildegard Steininger Neustadt discovered what her husband, Egon Neustadt, an orthodontist, …