Issue
No. 119
October 23, 2021
Watch
Velvet Goldmine
Almost every reviewer will recommend you see Todd Haynes’s new—and first—documentary, The Velvet Underground…
Play
Vanderbilt Tennis Club
On the fourth floor of Grand Central Terminal there’s a regulation-size tennis court. Like the trains…
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Fallen Angel
Long before Facebook came up with algorithms to undermine young women’s confidence, Victoria’s Secret was already there…
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Forest
To encourage iPhone addicts to put their devices down, the Forest app offers a “gamified timer” that incentivizes users…
Wear
Marfa Stance
Something distressing has happened. With little warning, full-fledged fall has arrived—and your Air Mail style correspondent’s outerwear…
Smell
Moncler
It takes a lot to surprise us these days. But a customizable L.E.D. screen on a bottle of perfume will do the job. Such is the primary feature…
Watch
Velvet Goldmine
Almost every reviewer will recommend you see Todd Haynes’s new—and first—documentary, The Velvet Underground…
Play
Vanderbilt Tennis Club
On the fourth floor of Grand Central Terminal there’s a regulation-size tennis court. Like the trains…
Listen
Fallen Angel
Long before Facebook came up with algorithms to undermine young women’s confidence, Victoria’s Secret was already there…
Download
Forest
To encourage iPhone addicts to put their devices down, the Forest app offers a “gamified timer” that incentivizes users…
Wear
Marfa Stance
Something distressing has happened. With little warning, full-fledged fall has arrived—and your Air Mail style correspondent’s outerwear…
Smell
Moncler
It takes a lot to surprise us these days. But a customizable L.E.D. screen on a bottle of perfume will do the job. Such is the primary feature…
Big Picture
As a picture-book writer, but not an illustrator, I can say this: wordless picture books stand tall as the medium’s purest expression. If you don’t believe me, ask Charlie Chaplin what he thought about the difference between silent movies and talkies. “Dialogue, to my way of thinking,” he once observed, “always slows action, because action must wait on words.” That’s true of picture books, too. Ditch words (sniffle), gain immediacy. READ ON
Discover
Doom and Bloom
It may be inappropriate, when seeking to praise a world-class visual artist on the occasion of her first, full career retrospective, to talk about your visit to her house for dinner. But one of the first aesthetic experiences I had in connection with Dawn DeDeaux occurred when I was a guest in a slightly deconstructed shotgun shack that was part of her studio compound in the Gentilly neighborhood of her native New Orleans, not all that far from the grand house on Esplanade Avenue where she lived as a child with her grandmother, down the street from where Degas once stayed. READ ON
Daisy Space Clown in Black Field, 2013, by Dawn DeDeaux, who is currently the subject of a retrospective at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Rue du Petit
Rejoice in life’s cryptic moments with this soundtrack from Jackson Browne, Dolly Parton, Jim James, Aisha Badru, and more
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Richard David Story (1952–2021)
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