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Elena Clavarino

Elena Clavarino


Elena Clavarino is a Senior Editor for AIR MAIL. Born in Milan, Clavarino lives in New York, where she writes about culture, travel, fashion, and food.

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Child’s Play

Nicolas Party’s techno-colored art is on view in Canada. In an interview, the artist discusses fairy tales, nature, and the power of pastel

East Meets West in Venice

Running Out the Clock

In Russia, not much has changed since the invasion of Ukraine. But as the war drags on, there’s a sense of fiddling while the world burns

India Ennenga and Sebastian Clark

The duo sending pocket-size books—collaborations with artists and writers—to people around the world

Nicolas Lefebvre

The mysterious Frenchman making art out of his collector’s items—and keeping mum on his relationship with Monica Bellucci

The 96-Year Itch

At 96, Marilyn Stafford, the masterful yet little-known photographer who shot everyone from Albert Einstein to Sharon Tate and everything from political unrest to war, gets her due

Plane Wreck

Canceled flights, shabby planes, burst tires … the reincarnated Eastern Airlines doesn’t live up to its past glory days—or even basic standards

Talking Eurotrash

The hard-partying moneyed set, with New York roots dating back to Studio 54, traded the city for their old jet-set life in the spring of 2020. Will they come back?

Alexandre Assouline

He grew up watching his parents turn a fledgling publishing company into a coffee-table-book sensation. Now he’s helping to run it

Where the Wild Things Are

A women-led photography initiative aims to raise $1 million to support the protection of endangered habitats

La Dolce Vita Milanese

With London in the midst of Brexit, and Paris more unfriendly than ever, Milan is having a moment

Fashion Plates

Why are so many luxury houses opening their own restaurants?

The Squid Game Secret

People have chalked up the South Korean TV show’s unprecedented popularity to word of mouth. Here’s the real source of its success

Thank You for Smoking

Lighting up indoors? Never! Well, except at these illustrious establishments …

Italy’s Best Pizza Isn’t Where You Think It Is

Welcome to Caiazzo, home of the inside-out-margherita restaurant drawing crowds from all over the world

Elizabeth Neel

With a new show at Pilar Corrias, in London, Alice Neel’s granddaughter forges a path of her own

Burn After Listening

A discreet, ultra-cool music festival in Garbicz, Poland, could blow Burning Man out of the water

Splendors in the Grass

What a Ride

If you’re not traversing Andalusia on horseback, are you really living?

Fresh Off the Boat

Ali Rose

The young fashion designer is making sleek eyeglasses out of recycled plastic water bottles

The Unusual Suspects

For 50 years, residents of the Aeolian Islands’ Alicudi consumed an ingredient used in L.S.D. Today, they’re still hallucinating

Christina Quarles

The L.A.-based artist’s dreamy, colorful work breaks down complex subjects of gender, race, and identity

Deeper Than the Deep Blue Sea

An exhibition at the Fondation Carmignac’s Mediterranean villa focuses on the colors, movement, and creatures of the sea