Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World
Jimmy Donaldson, 22, is out to become the Elon Musk of online creators.
Credit.Nick Little
May 4, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Jimmy Donaldson, 22, a YouTube megastar better known as Mr. Beast, operates six YouTube channels with names like MrBeast,MrBeast Shorts and Beast Reacts that together have 91 million subscribers. People have viewed his videos more than 13 billion times. And last year as the pandemic raged, he became the most-subscribed YouTube creator in the country.
But unlike other YouTubers who have been satisfied with social media success, Mr. Donaldson wants more.
“I really want to be Elon one day,” he wrote last year on Twitter, referring to Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX and one of the world’s richest people. Mr. Donaldson later listed Mr. Musk as his “dream collaborator.”
Naomi Watts on the Joys of Post-Covid Beauty
The actress, mom and co-founder of Onda Beauty talks about the skin-care products she’s excited about now and why she’s so invested in her skin.
Naomi Watts at home in the TriBeCa neighborhood of Manhattan.Credit.Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times
May 4, 2021Updated 11:56 a.m. ET
The actress Naomi Watts has been wearing several hats since the pandemic hit. She is a founder of Onda Beauty, an indie retail store with branches in TriBeCa and Sag Harbor, N.Y. She has also been filming, including a couple of movies that will be out this year: the thriller “Lakewood” and “Infinite Storm,” a tale of survival.
An Arts Patron Widens Her Reach With a Brooklyn Museum
Lonti Ebers is opening Amant to help artists create and display their work, not to show her own collection.
An exterior of the nonprofit arts institute Amant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.Credit.Sasha Maslov for The New York Times
May 4, 2021Updated 3:09 p.m. ET
When some collectors gather a critical mass of artworks, they decide to open a private museum to share their trove with the world.
But Lonti Ebers, who established the nonprofit institution Amant, has a different agenda: sharing art, but not her own.
Amant is scheduled to open the doors of a 21,000-square-foot, four-building campus in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y., on June 5. It features an on-site artist residency program as well as exhibition spaces that will be open to the public, at no cost.
In Miami, a Sculpture Built to Live In
Christopher Carter, an artist who works with salvaged materials, set out to create his biggest work ever. Now it’s his home, and the subject of a new exhibit.
May 4, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Christopher Carter regularly uses reclaimed lumber, faded rope, tarnished metal and other found materials to create his large-scale sculptures. So when the Miami-based artist needed a new studio and began dreaming of building a live-work space, he knew it would involve many repurposed components. What he didn’t realize was that it would eventually be the subject of an exhibition, “The Carter Project,” which opens May 15 at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale.
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Andy Weirâs New Space Odyssey
A new novel from âThe Martianâ author is slightly more out there, but it still has plenty of particle physics.
âThe real world is a far richer and more complex tapestry than any writer could invent,â Andy Weir, the author of âProject Hail Mary,â said.Credit.Jason Henry for The New York Times
May 3, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
When Andy Weir was writing his new novel, âProject Hail Mary,â he stumbled into a thorny physics problem.
The bookâs plot hinges on a space mold that devours the sunâs energy, threatening all life on Earth, and that propels itself by bashing neutrinos together. He needed to figure out how much energy would be produced by two of those subatomic particles colliding.