A Night to Remember with Salman Rushdie
Gay Talese, Lisa Taddeo, Marlon James, Tony Danza, and others gathered at the Waverly Inn for a rousing book party in celebration of the writer’s new memoir
Sean Scully’s Guide to London
The Irish-American artist shares his favorite spots in Hampstead, the neighborhood he calls home
Film
A Lighter Shade of Darren Aronofsky
His movies—Black Swan, The Wrestler, Requiem for a Dream—are notoriously heavy. But the director’s latest, Caught Stealing, is a romp around the East Village of the 1990s
A Tale of Two Beans
Two years after its unveiling, at the base of a Manhattan luxury tower, Anish Kapoor’s smaller “bean” is way more controversial than its Chicago predecessor
Lunch with Graydon Carter
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, AIR MAIL’s Co-Editor embraces being compared to Buddy from Elf, explains how creativity could help you get into the Vanity Fair Oscar party, and more
The Secret Life of Hotels
Before doing the Madeline children’s books and the murals for New York’s Carlyle-hotel bar, Ludwig Bemelmans worked at the Ritz—and kept notes
“My Journey in Jewels”
In Toledo, an exhibition showcases the jewelry designer Neil Lane’s celebrated private collection, featuring pieces once owned by stars such as Joan Crawford and Ginger Rogers
Positively 4th Street
When New York was still called New Amsterdam, a former slave ran a farm on the very terrain that would become the Greenwich Village stomping ground of folk singers and Beat poets
Kathryn Bigelow Goes Nuclear
The Oscar-winning director is back in her happy place with the nail-biting, anxiety-inducing, apocalyptic political thriller A House of Dynamite
The 96-Year Itch
At 96, Marilyn Stafford, the masterful yet little-known photographer who shot everyone from Albert Einstein to Sharon Tate and everything from political unrest to war, gets her due
