Luxury Vinyl Plank Flooring: When It Beats Hardwood and What Installation Really Costs
The name borrows from the vocabulary of indulgence. The material is a layered photograph. Here is how to judge it on its merits.
Luxury
Watches, jewelry, leather, couture and rare editions examined at workshop level, with materials, production numbers and the price genuinely asked.
Met Gala 2025 Went Menswear-First, With an All-Black Co-Chair Slate for the First Time
How Film Festivals Are Actually Funded, From Cannes to Sundance
Major festivals run on a mix of public subsidy, corporate sponsorship, accreditation and ticket revenue — with the balance explaining why European and American festivals feel so different.
How the amfAR Cannes Gala Turns Auction Lots Into Millions
How the Sundance Institute Actually Funds Its Festival
Government grants, corporate sponsorship tiers, program-specific foundation gifts, and a new campus partnership show how one of the country's marquee festivals really pays its bills.
The Economics of Met Gala Tables and Tickets
A Met Gala table costs $350,000 and individual tickets $75,000 as of 2025, per the Metropolitan Museum of Art — revenue that funds the Costume Institute, the curatorial department that remains the museum's only one financed largely by its own benefit.