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Profile: Leslie Travers

Leslie Travers’ set design for Francesca da Rimini at Teatro alla Scala, winner of the 2019 Franco Abbiati Award for Best Set Design.

Award-winning stage designer Leslie Travers on instinct, cultural exchange, letting go of ideas, and why design is ultimately “emotional architecture.”
Madina Tulakova Leslie Travers
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Art & Design

Profile: Adrianne Rubenstein

Floating Fruit, 2026, oil on canvas, 60 × 72”

Painter Adrianne Rubenstein on humor, Canadian landscapes, and self-discovery.
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Auctions and the Psychology of Collecting

Paul Signac, La Salute (Venise), 1906. Sold at Koller in Zurich on 26 June 2026 for about $4.4 million.

Koller’s Karl Green discusses how taste, timing, and desire shape the auction world.
Madina Tulakova Karl Green
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Ideas

Art Heist: Pushkin Editions Stolen From European Libraries

Alexander Pushkin, watercolor attributed to S. G. Chirikov, 1810. Source: Central Museum of A. S. Pushkin / Wikimedia Commons.

A Paris trial traces the theft of rare Russian books from libraries across Europe.
Bob Loblaw
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