Marcel Duchamp flipped the notion of art’s value on its head. We need foundation-shaking badly today, our critic says, and a sweeping survey at MoMA is an arresting reminder.
U.S. applications for unemployment benefits rose last week before Iran, Israel and the U.S. announced a two-week ceasefire deal that injected a degree of optimism into a still-clouded global economic picture
The co-founders of predictions market Kalshi said in the latest episode of "The Axios Show" that they're playing by the rules and benefiting society — even if a growing number of politicians and anti-gambling activists disagree. Why it matters: Kalshi has become very big business, last month taking nearly $13 billion of bets on everything from sporting events to elections to where Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will get married. - The WSJ recently reported that the New York-based company is raising new private funding at a $22 billion valuation, a figure its cofounders didn't dispute on the show. - "The Axios Show" is our series featuring top Axios reporters interviewing newsmakers shaping politics, business, tech, and culture. What…
John Healey, the defense secretary, said the vessels were gathering information about undersea pipelines, and said he believed President Vladimir V. Putin “would want us to be distracted by the Middle East.”
Prosecutors said anesthesiologist Gerhardt Konig tried to push his wife off a cliff and stab her with a syringe. He hit her with a rock when those tries failed.