Elena Clavarino

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Senior Editor at AIR MAIL

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The "Extraordinary Pools" Coffee-Table Book Showcases Pools Around the World

1 week ago | airmail.news | Elena Clavarino

In 1976, the young architects Rem Koolhaas and Madelon Vriesendorp wrote an essay that took the form of a surreal short story. Set in 1923, “The Story of a Pool” is about a group of Moscow architecture students who design a floating pool—for Koolhaas, a symbol of design purity. Decades later, amid Soviet adversity, the pool eventually propels itself across the Atlantic, arriving in New York like a drifting Utopian relic.
Jonah Reider Has Founds Fans in Jude Law and Jason Bateman

1 week ago | airmail.news | Elena Clavarino

Jonah Reider knows how to host a good dinner party. Last May, the 31-year-old chef and entrepreneur opened the Spot, an airy loft with an open kitchen in New York’s Little Italy, where he develops multi-course menus by day and hosts candlelit dinners for up to 24 people by night. The loft is reserved for a single party at a time, ensuring privacy for guests. So far, everyone from Jude Law to Jason Bateman has dined there. Music is central to these supper clubs.
Dive In! | Flipboard

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Elena Clavarino

6 hours agoMaryland Congressman Glenn Ivey, D-District 4, is on his way to El Salvador to try and meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It has been more than two months since the Maryland man was mistakenly deported as part of a round-up of suspected Venezuelan gang members. The Supreme Court of the United States unanimously ruled the White House has to facilitate his return to the U.S.
AIR MAIL Celebrates Springtime in Movies Through a Collection of Film Stills

2 weeks ago | airmail.news | Elena Clavarino

In The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo play young paramours separated by circumstance. It rains without stopping in Cherbourg—poised at the northern tip of France—sometimes softly, often in sheets. Thankfully, Geneviève, Deneuve’s character, runs an umbrella shop. The city is washed in spring pastels: lilac, lemon, pink.
How the Scion of Venice's Hotel Bauer Family Set Off the Porn Scandal Rocking Italy

2 weeks ago | airmail.news | Elena Clavarino

On June 7, 2024, a 24-year-old aspiring actress showed up at an apartment on Via Francesco Sforza, a ritzy street that loops around Milan’s historic city center. She was there for what she was told would be a promotional video for a gynecology practice called Centro Clinica Italia. The actress had no reason to be nervous.
Two New Coffee-Table Books Bring Us Back to the 80s

3 weeks ago | airmail.news | Elena Clavarino

The 1980s, the fashion photographer David Bailey recalls, were “the first time the Americans wanted to come to London instead of Londoners wanting to go to New York.” And London delivered. The Rolling Stones. David Bowie. Elton John. As Mick Jagger’s American girlfriend Jerry Hall said, “Mick and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night.
Frank Fournier's Photographs of 1970s New York, Collected in an AIR MAIL Portfolio

1 month ago | airmail.news | Elena Clavarino

When Frank Fournier moved to New York City, in 1975, it was a radical departure from everything he’d known. He had studied medicine for four years in his native France, but in his late 20s he pivoted. He was going to become a photojournalist. The city was bankrupt, dirty, and dangerous but also teeming with artistic voices. Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, James Baldwin, and even Grandmaster Flash were meeting downtown, opening galleries, writing, and pioneering new kinds of music.
1920s Surrealist Journals Feature in "Les Portes du Reve," a New Book by Skira Arte

1 month ago | airmail.news | Elena Clavarino

In 1920, the poet Paul Éluard and the literary theorist Jean Paulhan joined forces to create a magazine. They felt that existing rubrics in Paris, such as Littérature and La Nouvelle Revue Française, were too tethered to the past and too loyal to outdated artistic styles, Cubism included. Dada—the anarchic, anti-art movement born in Zurich during the war—was spreading across Europe, promoted by incendiary manifestos, performances, and journals that mocked logic and tradition.
E.A. Hanks, Tom Hanks's Daughter, On Her Childhood and Her New Book, "The 10"

1 month ago | airmail.news | Elena Clavarino

E.A. (Elizabeth Anne) Hanks’s literary debut has been a long time coming. After a decade of work, her book, The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road, finally hit the shelves last week. The story is a personal one, weaving between a road trip she took as a teenager with her mother, Susan Dillingham, and one she took alone as an adult, in which she retraced that original journey along Interstate 10.
Guillaume Bonn’s Photos of African Wildlife Are Collected in "Paradise Inc."

1 month ago | airmail.news | Elena Clavarino

Over a 20-year career, the photojournalist Guillaume Bonn has documented civil wars in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, ethnic violence in Rwanda and Burundi, and the displacement of pastoralist communities in Kenya and Tanzania. Bonn grew up in Kenya, as did his father and grandfather before him, and his distinctive style—raw and unflinching—has made him a mainstay in magazines such as The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.