Elena Clavarino
All Stations Go
Two new books offer an ode to historic train stations, from Roma Termini to Venice’s floating Santa Lucia to the London Underground, and the people who passed through them
The Blue-Check Investment
Your guide to who’s buying Instagram’s verification check marks, once reserved for actually notable people, now open to anyone willing to pay
The World Through Rose-Colored Glasses
Ahead of her show at the Queens Museum, the South African multimedia artist Tracey Rose discusses apartheid, psychedelics, and the inspiration behind some of her most radical works
A Case of the Venetian Jitters
The spooky story of Ca’ Dario, the city’s cursed—and much whispered about—palazzo
David Raffoul and Nicolas Moussallem
Even after an explosion destroyed their Beirut studio, the young design duo is building bespoke furniture that’s captured the art world’s attention
Staying Gold
A new book of rare and previously unseen photos marks the 40th anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders, based on the 1967 novel and starring Hollywood stars in their early years, from Tom Cruise to Diane Lane to Patrick Swayze
An Amusement Park of Dreams
The first-ever art amusement park—launched in 1987 in Hamburg, and featuring art by everyone from Basquiat to Baselitz to Lichtenstein—has since been all but forgotten. Ahead of Luna Luna’s reopening, next year, a new book surveys this feat of the imagination
V.I.C.’s—The New V.I.P.’s
Fashion-show seats and the odd freebie are no longer enough for luxury brands’ Very Important Clients. Cue candlelit dinners in ancient palazzos, regattas in the Caribbean … and a major case of keeping up with the Joneses
Avedon, Associated
A new book explores the relationships, both in front of and behind the lens, that were most formative for the groundbreaking photographer Richard Avedon
A Night Celebrating NOMAD
Rolf and Roya Sachs, Lola Schnabel, Tristan Hoare, and others gathered at the Dracula club, in Saint-Moritz, for a dinner party hosted by AIR MAIL in celebration of the NOMAD art fair
The Ultimate Map of New York and Its Drugs
From Xanax to cocaine to mushrooms, we break down the city’s drug scene by neighborhood
Palm Beach Living
A new coffee-table book surveys the architects and interior designers behind some of the island’s most beautiful homes—and the people who lived in them, from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to Lilly Pulitzer
William Klein’s World
A new coffee-table book pays tribute to the photographer whose unconventional style helped revive a staid industry
Fresh, Fly, Fabulous!
A new coffee-table book chronicles 50 years of hip-hop style, from Queen Latifah to Dapper Dan, Slick Rick to Run-DMC
Jack Siebert
The Los Angeles–based curator using social media to find the art world’s rising stars
Musical Chairs
Thierry Barbier-Mueller’s collection of more than 650 chairs, by designers including Ron Arad and André Dubreuil, is celebrated in a dazzling coffee-table book
The View from Here
An eight-hour trek through the Mexican wilderness in a drug dealer’s back seat, $1,000 beach-buggy rides … the lengths to which the young 1 percent will go for a party know no bounds
