‘I tend to avoid moral statements’: the Mexican artist looking at oil, wealth and history | Art

Minerva Cuevas, installation view of in gods we trust, Kurimanzutto, New York, 2023.

Taking in Mexican artist Minerva Cuevas’s exhibition in gods we trust is like feeling your way through bits and pieces of enormous counter-narratives that retell hundreds of years of Mexican history. Like the proverbial tip […]

NY Oil Millionaire Lost A Fortune With Enron… Then Madoff… Then FTX! The Triple Crown Of Bad Investments

NY Oil Millionaire Lost A Fortune With Enron... Then Madoff... Then FTX! The Triple Crown Of Bad Investments

Generally speaking – and this is not qualified financial advice – It’s pretty much always better to invest your money rather than lit it simply sit in the bank earning pennies in interest. Putting your […]

We’ve Struck Irony! Oil Heiress Aileen Getty Is A Founding Donor Of A Climate Fighting Organization Funding The “Just Stop Oil” Protestors

We've Struck Irony! Oil Heiress Aileen Getty Is A Founding Donor Of A Climate Fighting Organization Funding The "Just Stop Oil" Protestors

Just because you’re an heir to an oil industry fortune doesn’t mean you necessarily approve of the family business. Take Aileen Getty, for example: heiress to the famous Getty family fortune, she’s donated a reported […]

Strategy Next on Peak Oil with Collection of “Swinging, Bass-Driven Bangers”

Strategy Next on Peak Oil with Collection of "Swinging, Bass-Driven Bangers"

Portland producer Paul Dickow will release a new album as Strategy. Unexplained Sky Burners spans one hour of “dubby, swinging, bass-driven bangers,” we’re told. It comprises stabs and breaks sourced across the legacy of dance […]

100 Years Ago, One Random Guy Owned 5% Of All Oil Found In Iraq… And YES He Died One Of The Richest People On The Planet

Calouste Gulbenkian Wealth

Nicknames can be a blessing or a curse. For example, in the 1970s an Oakland A’s batboy named Stanley Burrell earned the nickname “Hammer” thanks to his uncanny resemblance to Hammerin’ Hank Aaron. Stanley still […]

‘Lots of great actors are not exactly oil paintings’: Valérie Lemercier on her ‘horrifying’ Céline Dion biopic | Céline Dion

Valérie Lemercier as Aline Dieu

One of the words used most often to describe French actor and comedian Valérie Lemercier is “kooky”, but even that fails to fully encapsulate the plain weirdness of her latest film, Aline, just released in […]