Spotlight
Dr. Abraham Morgentaler, a Blavatnik Faculty Fellow in Health and Longevity at Harvard Medical School, has played a pivotal role in reshaping the contemporary understanding of testosterone therapy. Once shunned over fears it fueled prostate cancer, testosterone treatment has been rehabilitated through decades of Morgentaler’s clinical work and research, which demonstrated its safety and meaningful benefits for men with low testosterone. His pioneering efforts helped overturn long-held misconceptions, leading to broader acceptance of testosterone therapy for appropriate patients and a renewed focus on evidence-based care.
For the first time ever, PBS made its way into Nielsen’s top 10 streaming list, thanks to Ken Burns’ “The American Revolution” documentary series. As “The American Revolution” aired nightly on PBS from Nov. 16 to Nov. 21, the six-part documentary series logged 565 million minutes during the week of Nov. 17 across PBS and Prime Video, boosting the show to land as the No. 10 most-watched streaming acquired title.
Artnet has named the opening of V&A East one of the biggest museum moments of 2025, spotlighting its bold new approach to making vast collections accessible to the public. The V&A East Storehouse allows visitors to freely explore hundreds of thousands of objects, books, and archives, redefining how museums display and activate their holdings. A centerpiece of the new complex is the Blavatnik Family Foundation-supported David Bowie Centre—a dazzling collection of more than 90,000 items, from original costumes and handwritten notes to sketches and instruments, offering unprecedented insight into the creative life of an iconic artist. Opened in September, the Centre has quickly become a major cultural draw within this groundbreaking museum complex.
The Financial Times takes readers inside the V&A East Storehouse, where curators, artists, and public figures wander through the vast collection and select their favorite hidden gems, ranging from unexpected design treasures to personal objects rarely seen by the public. Their picks offer a behind-the-scenes look at how this model is changing the way people interact with a museum's holdings. The article also highlights the David Bowie Archive, an extraordinary collection of more than 90,000 items from the artist's life, acquired through the David Bowie Estate with major support from the Blavatnik Family Foundation and Warner Music Group.
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The Blavatnik Archive is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to preserving and disseminating materials that contribute to the study of 20th-century Jewish and world history, with a special emphasis on World War I, World War II, and Soviet Russia.
