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No. 336
December 20, 2025
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The Onion’s longest-serving editor chronicles how a group of basement dwellers and misfits created the greatest satirical newspaper of the age …
scoop
Georg Jensen
Per this year’s edition of AIR MAIL’s annual Over-Under List, caviar bumps—where barbarians (TikTokers) lick…
read
Letters from Father Christmas
Every December, from 1920 to 1943, dispatches from the North Pole would arrive for…
treat
King
King—the New York restaurant run by former River Cafe chefs—is embracing the holiday spirit. Swap your usual panettone…
assemble
Edmund V. Gillon Books
It’s time to bring back Edmund V. Gillon Jr.’s Cut & Assemble books—a vintage pastime from the 80s…
store
Ginori 1735
Few people—save our grandmothers—realize just how useful trinket boxes can be. They elegantly corral everything…
listen
The Christmas Station
There’s nothing more comforting than gathering with loved ones while some cozy Chet Baker plays…
scoop
Georg Jensen
Per this year’s edition of AIR MAIL’s annual Over-Under List, caviar bumps—where barbarians (TikTokers) lick…
read
Letters from Father Christmas
Every December, from 1920 to 1943, dispatches from the North Pole would arrive for…
treat
King
King—the New York restaurant run by former River Cafe chefs—is embracing the holiday spirit. Swap your usual panettone…
assemble
Edmund V. Gillon Books
It’s time to bring back Edmund V. Gillon Jr.’s Cut & Assemble books—a vintage pastime from the 80s…
store
Ginori 1735
Few people—save our grandmothers—realize just how useful trinket boxes can be. They elegantly corral everything…
listen
The Christmas Station
There’s nothing more comforting than gathering with loved ones while some cozy Chet Baker plays…
Christmas in Black and White From Santas protesting on Fifth Avenue to plastic Nativity scenes, a new coffee-table book collects Lee Friedlander’s pictures of the holidays in America
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In Paris
Dubuffet, Chagall, and Matisse are just some of the artists featured in an exhibition of works on paper at the Grand Palais…
In New York
MoMA celebrates the Italian special-effects artist Carlo Rambaldi’s centennial with E.T. and other newly restored films…
In London
The quietly radical Nordic painter Anna Ancher makes her long-overdue U.K. debut at Dulwich Picture Gallery…
In Florence
An eerie exhibition at the Uffizi Galleries explores centuries of art in an unlikely and easily perishable medium—wax…
On-screen
Paul Anka is the subject of a new documentary that traces the singer and “My Way” writer’s seven-decade career…
In Theaters
Laura Dern and Will Arnett play a couple separating after a 20-year marriage in Bradley Cooper’s latest feature film.…
Architecture’s Black Sheep
A house by the architect Bruce Goff was not for the faint of heart. In 1949, in Aurora, Illinois, for instance, Sam and Ruth Van Sickle Ford—a civil engineer and an artist—commissioned a Goff home whose central structure would eventually resemble a pumpkin. Deciding they’d had enough criticism from neighbors, the Fords put up a sign at the construction site that read, We Don’t Like Your House Either. READ ON
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