Welcome Digest [12.15.25]
OpenAI does merch, must-see exhibits, why your next laptop will be slower, and more
Welcome To December 15th
Today’s Important Headlines
🖼️ NYC Exhibits to see before year ends
From institutional heavyweights to downtown staples, these are the shows worth catching before January:
Whitney: Alexander Calder
52 Walker: Nicole Eisenman
MoMA: Ruth Asawa
Lyles & King: Liana Finck
My Pet Ram: Robert Levine
New York Life Gallery: Sam Penn
🕯️ Rob Reiner and wife found dead in Brentwood home, son reportedly involved
Legendary filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner whose work ranged from This Is Spinal Tap, Stand by Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men, has been found stabbed to death alongside his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, at their Los Angeles home in an apparent homicide. Multiple sources report that their son, Nick Reiner, has been identified as the alleged killer, though official details are still emerging.
💾 Your next laptop’s RAM will be worse (and more expensive)
Manufacturers are shifting production away from the memory used in everyday laptops and entry-level smartphones to prioritize high-end chips for AI systems. As a result, the RAM in consumer devices is getting more expensive and, in some cases, worse, meaning slower performance, higher prices, or both. An uncomfortable irony of AI deteriorating basic technology.
🛍️ SC103 store opens in Lower East Side
Experimental fashion brand SC103 has landed on the LES with its first brick-and-mortar store this weekend. Named after the founders’ postgraduate apartment, the label is known for its play with materiality. Think wool, crochet, denim, and leather accented with charms and thoughtful details.
👕 OpenAI and Lockheed Martin release clothing collections
In what feels like a thinly veiled attempt at image rehabilitation, OpenAI and Lockheed Martin have both launched apparel lines. OpenAI’s drop features a YEEZY-style website and even includes a hat that appears to lift directly from the YEEZY x GAP era.
Headline curation and words by Mikail Haroon (@mvkail)
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From The Archive
An extra piece of content from the Welcome.jpeg archive for Magazine subscribers only.
In 2017, American artist Mark Handforth showed his exhibition “Analog Spring” at the Sant’Andrea de Scaphis gallery, a former neighborhood church in Rome’s Trastevere district.
At the center was ‘Panda Disponibile,’ a work made from the stripped shell of a Fiat ‘Panda.’ The car’s body was covered in colored candles that were lit and left to burn so the wax dripped and hardened over the metal, while the removed headlights were placed on the floor and used to light the vehicle.
Visitors were invited to light their own candles and add them to the car, creating a small devotional style altar facing the church’s original altar.
