Claude is up to something.

A Christmas window display in San Francisco re-created the Louvre heist.

Few capture Paris as Lotta V does (also notable: her portrait of contemporary domestic bliss).

The 5th birthday of Cyberpunk 2077, the video game with the best vending machines, is a few days away. Created by the Łódź-based studio CD Projekt Red, some people are only beginning to discover what it’s all about.

In Art Basel Miami Beach this weekend, though collectors are reportedly “much more interested in visiting Paris at this point than going back to Miami Beach,” sales have been strong, especially when it came to digital art (that is, if you call Beeple’s abhorrent output ‘art’). The whole fair and affair should be summarized in what has been named one of the event’s standout works: The Imperial Prayer Rug by Nicholas Galanin. This is a 2.5m wide rug showing the viewfinder of a drone.

Justin Bieber, your new favorite UI/UX designer?

France on the eve of the final judgement: a splendid doom-title for a new interview with supercharged intellectual Emmanuel Todd.

Superb Chinese craftsmanship + European aristocratic branding: basically, there was a time where upscale families loved creating their own logos (‘coats of arms’), and the most clout-chasing of them used to order from China custom-made exquisite porcelain adorned by those creations. Quite the sophisticated merch! The Grand Canal Museum of Beijing is displaying a collection of these pieces, 135 items from the 18th & 19th centuries, through March 3, 2026.

“Yorgos [Lanthimos] is my Whitney Houston.”

The price of silver, the precious metal, hit an all time high today. Let’s commemorate the moment with a giant silver star from Sandy Liang’s Seoul pop-up [add to folder: silver stars].