{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"June 27, 2026 – Air Mail","description":"Welcome to Air Mail Issue number 363.","favicon":"https://static.airmail.news/assets/icons/apple-touch-icon.png","home_page_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27","feed_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27.json","items":[{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/the-view-from-here","title":"The View from Here","content_text":"It’s June 2015, and Prince and his band are playing an exclusive, intimate show for about 200 people, an audience that includes Angela Bassett, James Taylor, Tyler Perry, and Jon Bon Jovi. At one point, Stevie Wonder makes his way onstage for a duet of “Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours).” After the show, DJ Cassidy takes over, cranking up one of the host’s favorite bangers: Parliament’s funk throwdown “Flash Light.” The beats are so thunderous that, Cassidy recalls, the historic paintings adorning the walls had to be doubly secured to prevent them from falling off.The venue? The East Room of the White House. The host? Barack Obama. The thought of such an event happening now? Unimaginable. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/the-view-from-here","summary":"It’s June 2015, and Prince and his band are playing an exclusive, intimate show for about 200 people, an audience that includes Angela Bassett, James Taylor, Tyler Perry, and Jon Bon Jovi. At one point, Stevie Wonder makes his way...","tags":["The View from Here","But First ..."],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/lgffybv442tucwsdsee63l7ttks9-098a9cc459258a0bef9799fb57eb5a27.jpg","author":{"name":"David Browne"},"date_published":"2026-06-27T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 27, 2026","date":"2026-06-27","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/david-browne\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eDavid Browne\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The East Room of the White House was once the country’s most exclusive music venue, hosting everyone from Duke Ellington to Johnny Cash to Prince. Under Trump, it has fallen silent","shorts":false,"banner":"But First ...","category":"The View from Here"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/barry-blitts-sketchbook","title":"Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook","content_text":null,"url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/barry-blitts-sketchbook","summary":null,"tags":["Sketchbook","Barry Blitt's Sketchbook"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/m5ha6l060lso4sws3ja38buo2lij-b042a23dd1fe18fa151560e1a5be629d.jpg","author":{"name":"Barry Blitt"},"date_published":"2026-06-27T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 27, 2026","date":"2026-06-27","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/barry-blitt\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eBarry Blitt\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Barry Blitt's Sketchbook","category":"Sketchbook"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/the-curious-case-of-stalins-wine-cellar","title":"The Curious Case of Stalin’s Wine Cellar","content_text":"“Stalin’s wine cellar,” read the subject line of an e-mail I received from a West Coast P.R. firm. The message promised adventure and intrigue. The story it told had everything: Nazis, a Soviet dictator, and some of the world’s most precious wine. Joseph Stalin—the Soviet Union’s supreme ruler from 1929 to 1953 and a murderous tyrant legendary for drinking friends and enemies under the table—was a closet oenophile, the e-mail explained. He had a soft spot for grand cru Bordeaux and hoarded thousands of bottles seized from the Romanovs during the Russian Revolution.When Hitler’s armies roared across the ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/the-curious-case-of-stalins-wine-cellar","summary":"“Stalin’s wine cellar,” read the subject line of an e-mail I received from a West Coast P.R. firm. The message promised adventure and intrigue. The story it told had everything: Nazis, a Soviet dictator, and some of the world’s most...","tags":["Crime and Scandal","The Grape Dictator"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/6plxebpsj62n3mzhd9ri1kjjutfn-eccbc87e4b5ce2fe28308fd9f2a7baf3.jpg","author":{"name":"Jay Cheshes"},"date_published":"2026-06-27T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 27, 2026","date":"2026-06-27","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jay-cheshes\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJay Cheshes\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Georgia’s government flew in collectors, auction-house executives, and the president of Château d’Yquem to unveil the “lost” bottles. It didn’t take long for the official story to unravel","shorts":false,"banner":"The Grape Dictator","category":"Crime and Scandal"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/the-harry-and-meghan-comeback-tour","title":"The Harry and Meghan Comeback Tour","content_text":"Despite some recent door slamming from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and a few murmurings about Princess Beatrice’s husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, spending solo downtime in St Tropez’s Club 55 (hotly denied: Beatrice was there too apparently), the royal family have had a notably unruffled couple of months. Then last week, just when the most exciting event on the horizon was the decamp to Balmoral, the news broke that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are returning to the UK for the first time in four years—with their children.Gah! You can almost picture the King’s expression—exhausted, troubled—when he was informed that ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/the-harry-and-meghan-comeback-tour","summary":"Despite some recent door slamming from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and a few murmurings about Princess Beatrice’s husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, spending solo downtime in St Tropez’s Club 55 (hotly denied: Beatrice was there too apparently), the royal family have had a...","tags":["The Royal Family","Royal Follies"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/so1i6l2eqcl67x2sipxkgiv57x2q-0884080034f2cef6a727adb46676e63d.jpg","author":{"name":"Shane Watson"},"date_published":"2026-06-27T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 27, 2026","date":"2026-06-27","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/shane-watson\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eShane Watson\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Peace may be breaking out between Harry and Charles, but the Sussexes’ return to Britain—with children and unresolved grievances in tow—could make the royal family’s quiet summer feel like D-day","shorts":false,"banner":"Royal Follies","category":"The Royal Family"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/brand-it-like-beckham","title":"Brand It Like Beckham","content_text":"There are many celebrated footballers being beamed into the homes of the American television audience this summer but none, it seems, are more famous in the United States than Sir David Beckham. When the game stops, the Beckham show starts. He may feature in as many as three separate commercial spots during half-time or one of the two hydration breaks when the network Fox goes to an advertisement break. There is not another former player who gets close to that exposure—even those who won World Cups, Premier League golden boots, and the occasional Ballon d’Or.There is Beckham visiting Home Depot to build a garden in which to watch ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/brand-it-like-beckham","summary":"There are many celebrated footballers being beamed into the homes of the American television audience this summer but none, it seems, are more famous in the United States than Sir David Beckham. When the game stops, the Beckham show starts....","tags":["News","financial goals"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/b8bjrv8ic1h9xkk7u57h1ek6tsch-12213cad7c88d5ea61d7730f4c0c7e87.jpg","author":{"name":"Sam Wallace and Tom Morgan"},"date_published":"2026-06-27T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 27, 2026","date":"2026-06-27","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/sam-wallace\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eSam Wallace\u003c/a\u003e \u003cem class=\"type-overline type-overline-10\"\u003eand\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/tom-morgan\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eTom Morgan\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"David Beckham was once a very good footballer. Now he is something even rarer: a non-threatening, six-packed, billion-dollar advertising machine, trusted by anxious brands to make Americans buy almost anything","shorts":false,"banner":"financial goals","category":"News"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/the-air-mail-diary","title":"The AIR MAIL Diary","content_text":"While 16 cities across three countries have been playing host to the World Cup, only one reported running out of beer: Boston, where a “Tartan Army” of Scotland supporters drank—and charmed—its way through town. Over in Arlington, Texas, Japan’s “Samurai Blue” supporters conscientiously bagged their trash (“Impeccable manners” —FIFA). Although, as Japan Today reported, a post about how “Japanese men spend among the least time on housework internationally” and a request to “Please do it at home” went viral. And then there were headlines like this from the BBC: OAR-SOME SCENES AS NORWAY FANS PACK OUT TIMES SQUARE. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/the-air-mail-diary","summary":"While 16 cities across three countries have been playing host to the World Cup, only one reported running out of beer: Boston, where a “Tartan Army” of Scotland supporters drank—and charmed—its way through town. Over in Arlington, Texas, Japan’s “Samurai...","tags":["News","News of the World"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/26tv49uebpnqgnqb0rwap1q93bq3-8e887928d881b09d79f2b39148da7a6f.jpg","author":{"name":"George Kalogerakis"},"date_published":"2026-06-27T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 27, 2026","date":"2026-06-27","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/george-kalogerakis\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eGeorge Kalogerakis\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The British aren’t knocking! The Dutch aren’t braking! The Japanese are getting stranded! And other strange stories from around the globe …","shorts":false,"banner":"News of the World","category":"News"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/contrapposto","title":"Contrapposto","content_text":"In his latest novel, Dave Eggers, founder of the literary journal McSweeney’s and author of the 2000 memoir A Heartbreaking Work","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/contrapposto","summary":"In his latest novel, Dave Eggers, founder of the literary journal McSweeney’s and author of the 2000 memoir A Heartbreaking Work","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/8xm8ziptotwxqkwy6vxbzeq2dk7s-2d27ea859d1aa8de13f6c683a6cd7e71.png","author":{"name":"Paulina Prosnitz"},"date_published":"2026-06-27T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 27, 2026","date":"2026-06-27","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/paulina-prosnitz\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003ePaulina Prosnitz\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"read","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/an-american-beauty","title":"“An American Beauty”","content_text":"If, like me, you have the Grateful Dead as the soundtrack to your summer—and every other season—this exhibition might be a welcome ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/an-american-beauty","summary":"If, like me, you have the Grateful Dead as the soundtrack to your summer—and every other season—this exhibition might be a welcome ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/jzah2pw3c775aa3lurq7y64kn4ux-99ec24183243216e57ce9834660aeece.png","author":{"name":"Gracie Wiener"},"date_published":"2026-06-27T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 27, 2026","date":"2026-06-27","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/gracie-wiener\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eGracie Wiener\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"see","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/hotel-du-palais","title":"Hôtel du Palais","content_text":"My heart sank when my cab stopped under the fanned glass porte cochère over the front door of the five-star Hôtel du Palais in Biarritz","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/hotel-du-palais","summary":"My heart sank when my cab stopped under the fanned glass porte cochère over the front door of the five-star Hôtel du Palais in Biarritz","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/r4pyvijlhjwm78dpjehkwbnqfpwb-6526844fb929758cab4b477a387b62bd.png","author":{"name":"Alexander Lobrano"},"date_published":"2026-06-27T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 27, 2026","date":"2026-06-27","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/alexander-lobrano\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAlexander Lobrano\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"stay","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/gidget","title":"Gidget","content_text":"Gidget is not your ordinary coming-of-age flick. First in the Gidget canon, the 1959 film was adapted from Frederick Kohner’s book ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/gidget","summary":"Gidget is not your ordinary coming-of-age flick. First in the Gidget canon, the 1959 film was adapted from Frederick Kohner’s book ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/8ykdmmg004epgk25ina5f5mqi7f6-8b4779dd1f96dd2f0a7be48e43c63345.png","author":{"name":"Eve Eismann"},"date_published":"2026-06-27T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 27, 2026","date":"2026-06-27","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/eve-eismann\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eEve Eismann\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"watch","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/victoria-hagan-x-high-camp-supply","title":"Victoria Hagan x High Camp Supply","content_text":"Interior designer Victoria Hagan, of restrained East Coast elegance, has teamed up with High Camp Supply","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/victoria-hagan-x-high-camp-supply","summary":"Interior designer Victoria Hagan, of restrained East Coast elegance, has teamed up with High Camp Supply","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/5r8a0on97eiif425k3jwu7ewtarf-4a8c4f461e5a8c130286cb843ca2160c.png","author":{"name":"Jennifer Noyes"},"date_published":"2026-06-27T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 27, 2026","date":"2026-06-27","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jennifer-noyes\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJennifer Noyes\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"decorate","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/leaning-seaward","title":"Leaning Seaward","content_text":"The Wall Street Journal recently announced the “dad book”—serious slabs of history, geopolitics, and biography—is dying ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/leaning-seaward","summary":"The Wall Street Journal recently announced the “dad book”—serious slabs of history, geopolitics, and biography—is dying ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/1os7jw7cwgt1wgdiqh4xww3n1gis-a147ea5f6f1b3cd1ff1186da3147a18b.png","author":{"name":"George Pendle"},"date_published":"2026-06-27T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 27, 2026","date":"2026-06-27","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/george-pendle\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eGeorge Pendle\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"read","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/where-have-all-the-greek-diners-gone","title":"Where Have All the Greek Diners Gone?","content_text":"There are certain things that make a New York City neighborhood livable and authentic: an independent bookshop, a family-owned hardware store, a nonjudgmental liquor store, and a Greek diner. So when Cozy Soup ’n’ Burger announced it was closing this month, after 40 years of serving up its namesake dishes at Astor Place and Broadway, the news was yet another data point in the culinary phenomenon I’ve come to call Greek Diner Collapse Disorder.Last fall, the Ritz Diner at Second Avenue and 65th Street served its final Western omelette. Star on 18 Diner in Chelsea shut its doors ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/where-have-all-the-greek-diners-gone","summary":"There are certain things that make a New York City neighborhood livable and authentic: an independent bookshop, a family-owned hardware store, a nonjudgmental liquor store, and a Greek diner. So when Cozy Soup ’n’ Burger announced it was closing this...","tags":["Food and Drink","what a kalamata!"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/1ulrq02hqjdra0l0doznfq1vv0tw-a4d291bdd45ae6768bfbfca1efc6b173.jpg","author":{"name":"John Brodie"},"date_published":"2026-06-27T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 27, 2026","date":"2026-06-27","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/john-brodie\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJohn Brodie\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"A once common sight in New York City, they have become an endangered species","shorts":false,"banner":"what a kalamata!","category":"Food and Drink"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/letters-from-scamelot","title":"Letters from Scamelot","content_text":"I knew I had to change my life when I walked into Lost Lambs writer Madeline Cash’s 30th birthday party last Friday in God-knows-where Brooklyn and recognized no less than three different people that I had made out with in as many weeks.I hadn’t fucked any of them—a small miracle! My tender, fragile spirit could not handle that kind of emotional dysregulation even in the best of times. And these are not the best of times, as you may be able to tell by the fact that you are reading my first piece of freelance journalism ever, a process that has forced me to grapple with two of my greatest fears: e-mails and deadlines with consequences. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/letters-from-scamelot","summary":"I knew I had to change my life when I walked into Lost Lambs writer Madeline Cash’s 30th birthday party last Friday in God-knows-where Brooklyn and recognized no less than three different people that I had made out with in...","tags":["Style","After Hours"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/f37bv35850a3vvs4nu3erjl0phz0-83a4d53f47c9a091602fe959409766a7.jpg","author":{"name":"Caroline Calloway"},"date_published":"2026-06-27T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 27, 2026","date":"2026-06-27","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/caroline-calloway\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eCaroline Calloway\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"In her inaugural AIR MAIL party report, Caroline Calloway kisses a stranger at Le Bain, accidentally robs a gallery, and brings her cat to an Eve Babitz reading","shorts":false,"banner":"After Hours","category":"Style"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/the-public-house-boys","title":"The Public-House Boys","content_text":"Pubs in England have always been the country’s greatest social equalizer—the one democratic place where everyone, from aristocrat to tradesman, congregates side by side for a cheeky pint. Some are more popular than others, boast better food, or have smarter interiors, but the one thing they have never been is fashionable.That is, until four years ago, when an unassuming pub called the Pelican, which had quietly stood on the corner of a Notting Hill garden square since 1872, reopened its doors under the ownership of a newly formed company: the Public House Group. Within days, people were talking about it with the same frenzy usually reserved for ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/the-public-house-boys","summary":"Pubs in England have always been the country’s greatest social equalizer—the one democratic place where everyone, from aristocrat to tradesman, congregates side by side for a cheeky pint. Some are more popular than others, boast better food, or have smarter...","tags":["Food and Drink","Close-up"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/3owiywg7gksds28e53c5w3veg6e7-3f212093715bad7d72c74208806c8bdd.jpg","author":{"name":"Vassi Chamberlain"},"date_published":"2026-06-27T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 27, 2026","date":"2026-06-27","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/vassi-chamberlain\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eVassi Chamberlain\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Phil Winser, James Gummer, and Olivier van Themsche—the trio behind the Pelican, the Hero, and the Fat Badger—have done the seemingly impossible: making English pubs fashionable","shorts":false,"banner":"Close-up","category":"Food and Drink"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/when-hokusai-met-hiroshige","title":"When Hokusai Met Hiroshige","content_text":"The exhibition “Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals” garnered worldwide attention when it opened at London’s Tate Gallery in 2025. On the same walls, the two undisputed English landscape masters went mano a mano, revealing vastly different visions and sensibilities even as they moved through the same era, even the same drawing rooms. This summer in Tokyo, at the Sumida Hokusai Museum—a small, silvery modern building, strikingly designed by the Pritzker Prize–winning architect Kazuyo Sejima—two legends of Japanese landscape have been paired in a similarly themed sumo match. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/when-hokusai-met-hiroshige","summary":"The exhibition “Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals” garnered worldwide attention when it opened at London’s Tate Gallery in 2025. On the same walls, the two undisputed English landscape masters went mano a mano, revealing vastly different visions and sensibilities...","tags":["Culture","Highlight"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/ns2y0t4v1xw92mf0evadzuc8pvdv-169a40ebb3c32a3e7cfe6fcb58ec7e32.jpg","author":{"name":"Wendell Jamieson"},"date_published":"2026-06-27T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 27, 2026","date":"2026-06-27","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/wendell-jamieson\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eWendell Jamieson\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"In Tokyo, an exhibition brings together original works by Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige, the 19th-century masters who revolutionized the landscape in Japanese woodblock prints","shorts":false,"banner":"Highlight","category":"Culture"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/murder-they-wrote","title":"Murder, They Wrote","content_text":"Alexandra Andrews’s The Fine Art of Lying is an enticing blend of art-world shenanigans, high society, sex, and murder. In the prologue, we meet Andrews’s heroine, Clare Bast, naked and contemplating the rich color of a pool of blood—Venetian red, she muses. How did a young Upper East Side matron with a small daughter and a dormant career as an art historian get here?Beset by Park Avenue–induced anomie, Clare needed a change, which arrived in the charming person of a French art dealer with a gallery in Chelsea. Gabriel Prévost was for Clare the human embodiment of a ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-27/murder-they-wrote","summary":"Alexandra Andrews’s The Fine Art of Lying is an enticing blend of art-world shenanigans, high society, sex, and murder. 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