Puck and The FLAG Art Foundation are proud to present “The Art of Influence,” a new art market summit on 9/15, featuring Scott Rothkopf of the Whitney Museum. Learn more about the event: puck.events/theartofinfl...

Puck and The FLAG Art Foundation are proud to present “The Art of Influence,” a new art market summit on 9/15, featuring Patti Wong as one of the speakers. Want to attend? Learn more about the event, and buy tickets, here: puck.events/theartofinfl...

Puck and The FLAG Art Foundation are proud to present “The Art of Influence,” a new art market summit on 9/15. Want to attend? Learn more about the event, and buy tickets, here: puck.events/theartofinfl...

New pod: Is UFC worth $7.7B over seven years?? Plus, a farewell to the Serial era of podcasting. With @lucasshaw.bsky.social AND @ashleycarman.bsky.social. Listen! open.spotify.com/episode/2Jav...

Puck and The FLAG Art Foundation are proud to present “The Art of Influence,” a new art market summit on 9/15. Want to attend? Learn more about the event, and buy tickets, here: puck.events/theartofinfl...

Puck and MoffettNathanson are proud to present In the Arena, a new sports media conference on October 16.⁠ What to attend? Learn more about the event, and buy tickets here: puck.events/inthearena/s...

Puck and The FLAG Art Foundation are proud to present “The Art of Influence,” a new art market summit on 9/15. Want to attend? Learn more about the event, and buy tickets, here: puck.events/theartofinfl...

Puck and The FLAG Art Foundation are proud to present “The Art of Influence,” a new art market summit on 9/15. Speakers: Anne Pasternak, Larry Gagosian, Glenn Fuhrman, Marion Maneker, and more. Want to attend? Learn more about the event, and buy tickets, here: puck.events/theartofinfl...

Puck and The FLAG Art Foundation are proud to present “The Art of Influence,” a new art market summit on 9/15. Speakers: Marion Maneker, Glenn Fuhrman, Larry Gagosian, Nicolas Party, and more. Want to attend? Learn more about the event, and buy tickets, here: puck.events/theartofinfl...

Puck & The FLAG Art Foundation are proud to present “The Art of Influence,” a new art market summit on 9/15. Speakers: Larry Gagosian, Nicolas Party, Dasha Zhukova Niarchos,Glenn Fuhrman, Marion Maneker Want to attend? Learn more about the event, and buy tickets, here: puck.events/theartofinfl...

Demand for rare dinosaur fossils has been heating up, even as the major auction houses struggle to tame the “Wild West” quality of an immature market without many comparisons… Read the full story from Puck’s Julie Brener Davich:

The rise of A.I., already a trillion-dollar industry, is still badly misunderstood by the media and warped by its own reality distortion field. Ian Krietzberg’s new Puck private email, The Hidden Layer, will cut through the noise. Read his first dispatch here:

Sotheby’s is auctioning the original Birkin prototype this week, and Puck’s Julie Brener Davich has details: puck.news/newsletter_c...

A frank conversation about the impacts of A.I. on Hollywood—Midjourney implications, job wipeouts, licensing realities, & what to expect in the next decade vs. what’s science fiction. Read the cross-talk between @mattbelloni.bsky.social, @iankrietzberg.bsky.social, & @eriqgardner.bsky.social:

Puck and The FLAG Art Foundation are proud to present “The Art of Influence,” a new art market summit on 9/15. 🎙️Speakers: Dasha Zhukova Niarchos, Larry Gagosian, Glenn Fuhrman, Nicolas Party, Marion Maneker Want to attend? Learn more, and buy tickets, here: puck.events/theartofinfl...

Puck and The FLAG Art Foundation are proud to present “The Art of Influence,” a new art market summit on 9/15. Speakers: Nicolas Party, Dasha Zhukova Niarchos, Larry Gagosian, Glenn Fuhrman, Marion Maneker Want to attend? Learn more, and buy tickets, here: puck.events/theartofinfl...

Traffic is collapsing for publishers as the web reorients around A.I. The good news is that people are making and consuming more media than ever—even if the business itself becomes unrecognizable. Read the full story from Puck’s @loudmouthjulia.bsky.social: puck.news/how-ai-power...

“Searches for flip-flops have increased by triple digits from last year, according to Lyst. I blame The Row’s $690 Dune flip-flop…” Read the full dispatch from Puck’s @sarah-shapiro.bsky.social here: puck.news/marnis-meryl...

Puck and The FLAG Art Foundation are proud to present “The Art of Influence,” a new art market summit on 9/15. 🎙️Speakers: Glenn Fuhrman, Larry Gagosian, Nicolas Party, Dasha Zhukova Niarchos, Marion Maneker Want to attend? Learn more, and buy tickets, here: puck.events/theartofinfl...

Puck founding partner @juliaioffe.bsky.social’s first book drops 10/21. Motherland tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy… Preorder Motherland, and read Julia’s reporting in Puck while you wait for its release. Links 👇

Lisa Yuskavage’s work has been criticized as too overtly sexual, but the artist sees the critical reception as a nuisance on her journey from working-class Philly to a Morgan Library & Museum show... Read Julie Brener Davich's preview of the show:

Now selling like hotcakes at Saks Fifth Avenue: ringside seats to a creditor-on-creditor cage match. Puck’s @williamdcohan.bsky.social chronicles the Saks financial soap opera:

Tim Blum’s shocking-but-not-surprising decision to call it quits is a signal of bigger changes afoot—not just the apparent anhedonia of the collector class, but the profound effects of financialization on the art market… Read @wallpower.bsky.social full dispatch:

YouTube makeup O.G. Patrick Starrr’s setting spray, On ’Til Dawn, has made him a top seller at Sephora. But with subcategory domination comes the inevitable question: What’s next? Puck’s Rachel Strugatz explores:

Puck’s @dylanbyers.bsky.social answers burning reader questions about the future of cable news, TNT, Mark Thompson, Erin Burnett, and Anderson Cooper. Plus: the non-return of Jeff Zucker and a Versant pronunciation guide. Read his answers here: puck.news/in-the-room-...

As more and more art changes hands privately, a group of top advisors are forming a collective to help manage the global demands of larger collections. And they’re all keeping their day jobs… Puck’s art market correspondent, @wallpower.bsky.social, has the story:

Last week in Paris, Puck fashion correspondent @laurensherman.bsky.social co-hosted a private dinner party with ShopMy’s Tiffany Lopinsky and Anisha Kamat. Swipe through to relive the evening, and sign up for Lauren’s Puck private email, Line Sheet, here: puck.news/newsletters/...

Puck fashion correspondent @laurensherman.bsky.social lays out eight potential replacements for Anna Wintour at Vogue. Read about it here: puck.news/who-will-rep...

The sudden departure of Glossier C.E.O. Kyle Leahy is merely the latest setback for the decade-old Millennial beauty brand, which is struggling to raise fresh capital at even half the valuation it achieved in 2021… Puck’s Rachel Strugatz digs in:

In an informal survey of the lords of high finance, executives praised Trump’s strike on Iran. What’s actually keeping them up at night is the New York mayor’s race… Puck’s @williamdcohan.bsky.social has the skinny: puck.news/wall-street-...

A critical mass of Republicans on Capitol Hill is on the verge of killing a Big Beautiful Bill provision that would ban states from enacting their own A.I. regulations for a decade... Read @iankrietzberg.bsky.social’s full report, and sign up for his A.I. newsletter “The Hidden Layer” 👇

The surprising and yet totally expected news that Anna Wintour is dropping her day-to-day American Vogue responsibilities has the industry in a predictable tizzy. @laurensherman.bsky.social lays out the replacement leaderboard:

Here’s one for the Millennials who were obsessed with Gap fragrances in the 1990s: According to a source with direct knowledge of the situation, Gap plans on launching a beauty line. @laurensherman.bsky.social has the scoop: puck.news/gaps-beauty-...

Hardcore shoppers cut deals with a shadow network of sourcers who hunt down the season’s “sold-out-but-not-really” must-haves from The Row, Pucci, Alaïa, and more. Read @sarah-shapiro.bsky.social's dispatch on the rise of fashion sourcers like Gab Waller & Kelly Levian:

Puck’s @laurensherman.bsky.social has the scoop on the fashion at the wedding of the century—from specifics of Anna Wintour’s involvement, to the designer Lauren Sánchez will be wearing down the aisle:

Puck’s @mattbelloni.bsky.social opens up his inbox for reader questions on everything from the 007 director bake-off and why Warner Bros. didn’t win the ‘Matrix’ auction, to Baldoni-Lively aftershocks and Tom Cruise’s honorary Oscar. Read Matt's answers here:

Puck’s @dylanbyers.bsky.social is taking questions for In the Room’s first ever mailbag. Send your questions about the media world to [email protected] or leave them in the comments below 👇

“In the week since the Israeli attack on Iran commenced, it’s been looking more and more like the story of that brilliant Trump–Bibi psyop was itself a psyop, with Trump as the target...” Read the full dispatch from Puck’s @juliaioffe.bsky.social:

Substack’s co-founders are on the fundraising circuit and touting record engagement. But there are red flags that suggest the business may not be as ascendant as it seems… Puck’s @dylanbyers.bsky.social digs in:

Yes, Ryan Murphy is following the Carolyn Bassette-Kennedy online discourse closely, and called Puck’s @laurensherman.bsky.social up to discuss his team’s plan for the “American Love Story” costumes, which he says will do right by CBK... Read their full conversation: puck.news/ryan-murphy-...

“Amid the industry-resetting news that David Zaslav was splitting Warner Bros. Discovery into two companies, one question kept popping up in my texts from various streaming executives: Why wasn’t sports a bigger component of WBD?” @loudmouthjulia.bsky.social answers:

Racing legend Dale Earnhardt Jr. candidly discusses NASCAR’s post-pandemic blues, lessons from F1, and the on-track value structure. Read, or listen to, his full conversation with @ourand.bsky.social:

A flurry of recent beauty biz M&A deals, from Rhode to Touchland, are notable not just because they’re more targeted and considered—the days of the bidding war are waning—but because they didn’t involve industry rainmaker Vennette Ho… Puck's Rachel Strugatz digs in:

Disney is racing to keep its fight with Midjourney inside the judicial system and out of the political swamp. Insiders insist the endgame isn’t a licensing deal, but to actually compel A.I. companies to stop ripping off Hollywood’s prized I.P. @eriqgardner.bsky.social digs in:

Tuckernuck bootstrapped a $100M business by blending its own styles with curated third-party labels. But multibrand retail is notoriously difficult—and scaling the company beyond its brick-and-mortar location will take serious capital… Read @sarah-shapiro.bsky.social's deep dive:

Longtime Democratic donor Brian Grazer’s sudden political conversion comes at a delicate time for Imagine Entertainment, enraging his partners but potentially smoothing new business with Amazon-MGM… Puck’s @kimmasters.bsky.social has the story:

A bracing conversation with former Dept. of Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson about the realities of mass deportation, Trump sending troops to L.A., the handcuffing of Senator Alex Padilla, and America “being pushed to a breaking point.” Read his conversation with Puck’s @jheil.bsky.social:

In recent years, Art Basel in Paris stole some of its thunder, but O.G. Basel is having a micro-resurgence. Early reports suggest that there’s money on the ground, but not a lot of urgency… Puck’s @wallpower.bsky.social digs in:

Senate Democrats (and a few Republicans) are reviving efforts to ban stock trading by members of Congress—a surprisingly complex issue with bad actors on both sides of the aisle. @abbyliv.bsky.social has the story:

“When I say everyone is upset, I mean everyone—from the most insidery of fashion insiders to people who obsess over Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy’s looks online.” @laurensherman.bsky.social examines the “American Love Story” costume kerfuffle: puck.news/brad-pitts-p...