Jacob Wackerhausen | Istock | Getty Images Earlier this week, the White House тАФ in conjunction with Michael Dell, founder and CEO of┬аDell Technologies, and his wife, Susan тАФ announced one of the largest donations ever to benefit American children. The Dells’ $6.25 billion pledge goes hand in hand with …
A woman puts money into a Salvation Army red kettle outside of Giant Supermarket in Alexandria, Virginia on November 22, 2023. Eric Lee | The Washington Post | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the …
The Met Gala has outdone itself, even before itтАЩs begun. The annual gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art тАФ the flashy fashion extravaganza that highlights the cityтАЩs social scene every May тАФ raised a record $31 million this year, museum officials announced on Monday, the biggest gross in the …
Wealthy collectors who want to be involved with museums typically donate works, write checks and sit on a board of trustees тАФ these are the essential steps that keep art institutions afloat. But Ariel Aisiks тАФ the Argentina-born art patron who now lives on New YorkтАЩs Upper East Side тАФ …
Traveling down a dirt road through the rolling grasslands of southern Montana, the snow-capped Beartooth Mountains slowly appear in the distance. A metal-roofed, barnlike structure soon comes into view and, beside it, a 25-foot, abstract black steel sculpture by the artist Alexander Calder. On a low-lying stone wall, rusted metal …
Three times a day, a delicate fog drifts from nozzles hidden in flower beds and rolls down sloping hills and into a large clearing in the Khao Yai Art Forest. The white mist unfurls across the landscape like a wave, skimming the grass and enveloping the forest-edged valley, before fading …
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Katharine Dexter McCormick, who was born to a life of wealth, which she compounded through marriage, could have sat back and simply enjoyed the many advantages that …
The Center for Art and Advocacy, a nonprofit that assists artists who have served time in prison, will inaugurate its first physical space on Thursday. The hub, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, opens to the public with an exhibition, тАЬCollective Gestures: Building Community Through Practice,тАЭ featuring works by the …
As the reality sets in that the United States is drastically diminishing its foreign assistance to developing countries, an urgent conversation is starting among governments, philanthropists, and global health and development organizations. It is centered on one crucial question: Who will fill this gap? Last year, the United States contributed …
In the eighth episode of the reality competition show тАЬBeast Games,тАЭ released last week, the YouTube superstar MrBeast тАФ the showтАЩs host, co-executive producer and mischief-maker-in-chief тАФ asked the 10 remaining contestants to choose their share of a $1 million split. By this stage of тАЬBeast Games,тАЭ which streams on …
