Issue
No. 311
June 28, 2025
New York
Lisbon
Naples
Tbilisi
Jaipur
BAD BLOOD UNDER THE BIG TOP
England’s most beloved circus, Giffords, is in the midst of a wild succession crisis that pits clowns and acrobats against a power-hungry accountant …
WEAR
American Optical
We’ve all seen the photos of John F. Kennedy sailing his Wianno Senior, wearing a grey crewneck sweater or a leather G-1 …
READ
The End of August
Paint your July with a multi-generational, multi-voiced novel by Yū Miri, a Korean writer who grew up in Japan. Her words are…
CARRY
Bottega Veneta
Fifty years ago, Bottega Veneta introduced a technique of weaving leather strips, fettuce, and it became the house’s signature…
WATCH
La Belle Noiseuse
Jacques Rivette’s La Belle Noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker), winner of the Grand Prix at the 1991 Cannes…
apply
Tower 28
Sensitive, acne-prone, oily or dry skin—you name it, this S.P.F. has seen it all and doesn’t flinch. Clean enough to make…
sparkle
Graff
At last, diamond lovers have the perfect place to spend those blackjack winnings. Graff has opened a new salon…
WEAR
American Optical
We’ve all seen the photos of John F. Kennedy sailing his Wianno Senior, wearing a grey crewneck sweater or a leather G-1 …
READ
The End of August
Paint your July with a multi-generational, multi-voiced novel by Yū Miri, a Korean writer who grew up in Japan. Her words are…
CARRY
Bottega Veneta
Fifty years ago, Bottega Veneta introduced a technique of weaving leather strips, fettuce, and it became the house’s signature…
WATCH
La Belle Noiseuse
Jacques Rivette’s La Belle Noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker), winner of the Grand Prix at the 1991 Cannes…
apply
Tower 28
Sensitive, acne-prone, oily or dry skin—you name it, this S.P.F. has seen it all and doesn’t flinch. Clean enough to make…
sparkle
Graff
At last, diamond lovers have the perfect place to spend those blackjack winnings. Graff has opened a new salon…
Match Point-and-Shoot From Italian cities to French coasts to Scottish hills, a new coffee-table book collects photographs of the world’s most beautiful tennis courts
12
Caillebotte’s Circle
In February 1876, Pierre-Auguste Renoir invited Gustave Caillebotte to take part in the second Impressionist exhibition—a follow-up to the group’s scandalous debut, in 1874, which had no jury and no prize, and threw open its arms to radical painters rejected by the state-sponsored Salon, artists such as Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne. Caillebotte, a 27-year-old former soldier and a qualified lawyer, had only been studying at Paris’s École des Beaux-Arts for three years. But his breakout work, The Floor Scrapers—daring in its perspective, vivid colors, and salacious subject of half-naked male laborers—was progressive enough to be denied by the Salon in 1875. The Salon’s loss was Impressionism’s gain. READ ON
Is Edited By
Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley
Creative Director
Angela Panichi
Deputy Editors
Ashley Baker Ash Carter Chris Garrett Nathan King George Pendle Julia Vitale
Chief Technology Officer
John Tornow
Books Editor
Jim Kelly
Arts Intel Report Editor
Laura Jacobs
Senior Editor
Elena Clavarino
Investigations Editor
Clara Molot
Photo Director
Ann Schneider
Copy Editor
Adam Nadler
Research & Legal Editor
Matt Kapp
Production Editor
H. Scott Jolley
Junior Editors
Carolina de Armas Jeanne Malle Paulina Prosnitz
Associate Editors
Victoria Herman Lucy Horowitz
Art Director
Paloma Huerre
Senior Photo Editor
Emine Gözde Sevim
Deputy Art Director
Zoé Gillette
International Editor
Isabelle Harvie-Watt
Head of Communications and Film/TV Development
Harrison Vail
Columnists
Dana Brown
Cazzie David
Lisa Henricksson
Walter Isaacson
Pico Iyer
Rachel Johnson
John Lahr
Jonathan Margolis
Linda Wells
James Wolcott
Writers at Large
Lili Anolik Bridget Arsenault Johanna Berkman Joseph Bullmore Spike Carter Vassi Chamberlain William D. Cohan Rich Cohen Matthew Gurewitsch Michael Hainey Stuart Heritage George Kalogerakis Sam Kashner James Kirchick Alexander Lobrano Alexandra Marshall Daphne Merkin Sam Wasson
Contributing Artists
Monica Ahanonu Barry Blitt André Carrilho Pip Carter Paul Davis David Downton Andrea Ferolla Josh Gosfield Cathy Graham Eric Hanson Angelica Hicks Hilary Knight Danielle Kosann Michael Lindsay-Hogg Ross MacDonald Joe McKendry James McMullan Donald Robertson Charles Dare Scheips Grant Shaffer Ed Sorel Ralph Steadman
Contributing Photographers
Jonathan Becker Justin Bishop Alex Board James Emmerman Marcos Fecchino Daniel Paik Art Streiber Sharon Suh Justin Weiner
Architectural Consultant
Basil Walter
Head of Audience Development
Rachel LeSage
Audience Growth Manager
Merritt Johnson
Cartoon Editor
Bob Mankoff
Music Supervisor
Randall Poster
Technology
Brooks Oakley Justin Rubaloff
Interns
Hannah Gross Charlie St. John
OUR CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER AND CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER ARE
Bill Keenan and Emily Davis
Air Supply General Manager and Brand Partnerships
Anjali Lewis
Business Development Director
Catherine Scott
European Sales Director
Selim Mataraci
Financial & Business Operations
Marc Leyer
Account Manager
Dillon Freeman
Chief Strategy Adviser
Adam Mendelsohn
AIR SUPPLY
Chief Merchant
Jennifer Noyes
Shop Editor
Jessica Iredale
E-Commerce Manager
Isaac Metlitsky
In Memoriam
Peter Bogdanovich Duncan Hannah Jane Larkworthy Douglas McGrath Richard David Story André Leon Talley David Yaffe
Every editorial product is independently selected. If you buy something through
our links, AIR MAIL may earn an affiliate commission.
our links, AIR MAIL may earn an affiliate commission.
