Ready-to-Wear
“Probably due to their dimensions,” wrote the Surrealist artist Man Ray, “the two lips resembled two bodies embracing. It was very Freudian.” He is describing his Observatory Time—The Lovers (1936), an eight-foot-wide painting featuring an elongated pair of flame-red lips hovering in a pale sky, an observatory visible in the distance, perhaps bearing witness to a fiery passion. Man Ray’s work was a cri de coeur over his dashed love affair with the siren and muse Lee Miller. Decades later, in 1970, he transformed the red lips of his painting into the gold lips of a pendant brooch, a talisman to love. Like so many artists, Man Ray was using jewelry as a new medium for creative expression. Paintings and sculpture could become precious metal and gems—sculpture to wear. READ ON
Character Study Tourist kitsch and high fashion collide in Mike White’s addictive new series, The White Lotus
An Étoile Is Born
In Leos Carax’s new film, Annette, which premiered at Cannes, Adam Driver’s character, Henry, carries on crooning while he performs cunnilingus on Marion Cotillard’s Ann in a sweaty love scene, giving her what might be called “good vibrato.” The song that Driver is singing is one of many composed for Carax’s brooding pop opera by musicians Ron Mael and Russell Mael. READ ON
And All That Jazz Look back at Bert Stern’s classic film, Jazz on a Summer’s Day, which next week comes out in a sparkly new restoration
Is Edited By
Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley
Deputy Editors
Chris Garrett Michael Hainey Nathan King
Design Director
Angela Panichi
Chief Technology Officer
John Tornow
Books Editor
Jim Kelly
Arts Intel Report Editor
Laura Jacobs
Style Editor
Ashley Baker
Features Editor
Ash Carter
Senior Editor
Julia Vitale
Executive Editor
David Foxley
Photo Director
Ann Schneider
Associate Editors
Elena Clavarino Jensen Davis Shireen Mohyi Jacob Robbins Elinor Schneider Roxy Solis
Art Director
Paloma Huerre
Columnists
Cazzie David
Emma Freud
Lisa Henricksson
Walter Isaacson
Pico Iyer
Rachel Johnson
John Lahr
Douglas McGrath
James Wolcott
Writers at Large
Lili Anolik Joseph Bullmore William D. Cohan Rich Cohen Stuart Heritage George Kalogerakis Sam Kashner Alexandra Marshall Alex Oliveira
Contributing Artists
Monica Ahanonu Barry Blitt André Carrilho Paul Davis David Downton Andrea Ferolla Josh Gosfield Cathy Graham Duncan Hannah Eric Hanson Angelica Hicks Pip Johnson Hilary Knight Jenny Kroik Michael Lindsay-Hogg Ross MacDonald Joe McKendry James McMullan Donald Robertson Charles Dare Scheips Grant Shaffer Ed Sorel Ralph Steadman
International Editor
Isabelle Harvie-Watt
London Editor
Bridget Arsenault
Communications Director
Anna Bradlee
Cartoon Editor
Bob Mankoff
Music Supervisor
Randall Poster
Copy Editor
Adam Nadler
Research & Legal Editor
Matt Kapp
Photo Editor
Emine Gozde Sevim
Production Editor
H. Scott Jolley
Intern
Gasper Tringale-White
Chief Marketing Officer
Emily Davis
Brand Partnerships
Anjali Lewis
Sales Director
Michael Pescuma
Financial & Business Operations
Marc Leyer
Integrated Marketing Manager
Madeline Spates
Chief Strategy Adviser
Adam Mendelsohn
In Memoriam
Richard David Story (1952–2021)
our links, AIR MAIL may earn an affiliate commission.