Elena Clavarino

3 weeks ago | airmail.news | Elena Clavarino

The Glackens name will ring a bell with art buffs and writers. William Glackens (1870–1938), a key figure in the Ashcan School, was known for his vibrant scenes of city life. His wife, Edith Dimock Glackens (1876–1955), painted witty, sometimes caustic watercolors. Their son, Ira, became a writer, and their daughter, Lenna, who died at 29, was an emerging artist. Meanwhile, William’s older brother, Louis M. Glackens, is often overlooked.

3 weeks ago | airmail.news | Elena Clavarino

Six years ago this summer, Jared Leto’s followers descended on Mars Island, a private resort off the coast of Croatia. For three days, fans—many of them young women, some of them paying more than $6,499 to be there—meditated, chanted, and lounged barefoot in caftans alongside Leto, who, in addition to starring in American Psycho, Fight Club, House of Gucci, and Blade Runner 2049, is the front man of Thirty Seconds to Mars.

4 weeks ago | airmail.news | Elena Clavarino

“I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation,” said the French-born photographer Elliott Erwitt in 1998. A few months earlier, looking back on his archive of “amateur” pictures, he realized that dogs were a subject he had compulsively documented over the years.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.