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Air Mail (magazine)
''Air Mail'' is a digital weekly newsletter launched in July 2019 by former '' Vanity Fair'' editor-in-chief Graydon Carter and former ''New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...'' reporter Alessandra Stanley. Private equity firm TPG Capital served as ''Air Mail''s majority investor. ''The New York Times'' announced the launch of ''Air Mail'', calling it a weekly newsletter for "worldly cosmopolitans." The weekly's writers include Alessandra Stanley, Michael Lewis, William D. Cohan, and others. In 2022, ''Air Mail'' published a list of The "Downtown Set", 50 New Yorkers in the arts and culture spheres living and working in Lower Manhattan. The feature included black-and-white portraits by James Emmerman. In October 2023, ''Air Mail'' published an i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TPG Inc
TPG Inc., previously known as Texas Pacific Group and TPG Capital, is an American private equity firm based in Fort Worth, Texas. TPG manages investment funds in growth capital, venture capital, stock, public equity, and debt investments. The firm invests in a range of industries including consumer/retail, mass media, media and telecommunications, industrials, technology, travel, leisure, and health care. TPG became a public company in January 2022, trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol “TPG”. History and notable investments Founding and early history Texas Pacific Group, later TPG Capital, was founded in 1992 by David Bonderman, James Coulter (financier), James Coulter and William S. Price III. Prior to founding TPG, Bonderman and Coulter had worked for Robert Bass, making leveraged buyout investments during the 1980s. In 1993, Coulter and Bonderman partnered with GE Capital vice president of strategic planning and business development William S. Price III to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pendle
George Pendle (born 1976) is a British author and journalist. He was educated at Stowe School and St Peter's College, Oxford. After working at ''The Times'' as a writer and commissioning editor from 1997 to 2001, Pendle wrote his first book, published in 2005, ''Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons'', which became the basis for the historical drama television series ''Strange Angel'' that ran from 2018 through 2019 on CBS All Access. Pendle's second book – ''The Remarkable Millard Fillmore: The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President'' (2007) is a faux-biography of the unlucky thirteenth President of the United States of America, Millard Fillmore. His third book, ''Death: A Life'' (2008), is a comedic autobiography of the personification of Death and how he deals with his purpose, life, and love. A collection of his non-fiction writing was released under the title ''Happy Failure'' in 2014. From 2001 forward, Pendle has writte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lifestyle Magazines Published In The United States
Lifestyle is the interests, opinions, behaviours, and behavioural orientations of an individual, group, or culture. The term " style of life" () was introduced by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in his 1929 book, ''The Case of Miss R.'', with the meaning of "a person's basic character as established early in childhood". The broader sense of lifestyle as a "way or style of living" has been documented since 1961. Lifestyle is a combination of determining intangible or tangible factors. Tangible factors relate specifically to demographic variables, i.e. an individual's demographic profile, whereas intangible factors concern the psychological aspects of an individual such as personal values, preferences, and outlooks. A rural environment has different lifestyles compared to an urban metropolis. Location is important even within an urban scope. The nature of the neighborhood in which a person resides affects the set of lifestyles available to that person due to differences betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Media
In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronic device, including digital data storage media (in contrast to analog electronic media) and digital broadcasting. ''Digital'' is defined as any data represented by a series of digits, and ''media'' refers to methods of broadcasting or communicating this information. Together, ''digital media'' refers to mediums of digitized information broadcast through a screen and/or a speaker. This also includes text, audio, video, and graphics that are transmitted over the internet for viewing or listening to on the internet. Digital media platforms, such as YouTube, Kick (service), Kick, and Twitch (service), Twitch, accounted for viewership rates of 27.9 billion hours in 2020. A contributing factor to its part in wha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newsletters
A newsletter is a printed Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and Printmaking, images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabon ... or electronic publishing, electronic report containing news concerning the activities of a business or an organization that is sent to its members, customers, employees or other Subscription business model, subscribers. Newsletters generally contain one main topic of interest to its recipients and may be considered grey literature. E-newsletters are delivered electronically via e-mail and can be viewed as spamming if Email marketing, e-mail marketing is sent unsolicited. The newsletter, sometimes a periodical, is the most common form of serial publication. About two-thirds of newsletters are internal publications, aimed towards employees and volunteers, while about one-third are external publications, ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyperallergic
''Hyperallergic'' is an online arts magazine, based in Brooklyn, New York. Founded by the art critic Hrag Vartanian and his husband Veken Gueyikian in October 2009, the site describes itself as a "forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking". Publisher ''Hyperallergic'' is published by Veken Gueyikian. Reception Hyperallergic LABS, its Tumblr blog, was named by ''Time'' magazine as one of the "30 Tumblrs to Follow in 2013". ''The New Yorker'' critic Peter Schjeldahl described the site as "infectiously ill-tempered". Holland Cotter of the ''New York Times'' suggested it could contribute to a needed "influx of new commentators who don’t mistake attitude for ideas". The publication was cited by the TED blog as one of "100 Websites You Should Know and Use" in 2007 013 update to the 2007 list In 2018, ''Nieman Reports'' published an article outlining how ''Hyperallergic'' came to rival print art journalism, in which Sarah Douglas, the ARTnews editor in chief, said that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Online Magazine
An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks. One of the first magazines to convert from a print magazine format to an online only magazine was the computer magazine '' Datamation''. Some online magazines distributed through the World Wide Web call themselves webzines. An ezine (also spelled e- zine) is a more specialized term appropriately used for small magazines and newsletters distributed by any electronic method, for example, by email. Some social groups may use the terms cyberzine and hyperzine when referring to electronically distributed resources. Similarly, some online magazines may refer to themselves as "electronic magazines", "digital magazines", or "e-magazines" to reflect their readership demographics or to capture alternative terms and spellings in online searches. An online magazine shares some features with a blog and also with online newspapers, but can usually be dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renée Cox
Renee Cox (born October 16, 1960) is a Jamaican-American artist, photographer, lecturer, political activist and curator. Her work is considered part of the feminist art movement in the United States. Among the best known of her provocative works are ''Queen Nanny of the Maroons'', ''Raje'' and '' Yo Mama's Last Supper'', which exemplify her Black Feminist politics. In addition, her work has provoked conversations at the intersections of cultural work, activism, gender, and African Studies. As a specialist in film and digital portraiture, Cox uses light, form, digital technology, and her own signature style to capture the identities and beauty within her subjects and herself. Background Cox has "dedicated her career to deconstructing stereotypes and to reconfiguring the black woman's body, using her nude form as a subject." She uses herself as a primary model in order to promote an idea of "self-love" as articulated by bell hooks in her book ''Sisters of the Yam'', because as Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GLAAD
GLAAD () is an American non-governmental media monitoring organization. Originally founded as a protest against defamatory coverage of gay and lesbian demographics and their portrayals in the media and entertainment industries, it has since expanded to queer, bisexual, and transgender people. History Formed in New York City as Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in 1985 to protest against what it saw as the ''New York Post''s defamatory and sensationalized AIDS coverage, GLAAD put pressure on media organizations to end what it saw as homophobic reporting. Initial meetings were held in the homes of several New York City activists as well as after-hours at the New York State Council on the Arts. This core founding group included film scholar Vito Russo; translator Gregory Kolovakos, then on the staff of the NYS Arts Council and who later became the organization's first executive director; Jewelle Gomez, the organization's first treasurer; writers Darrell Yates Ris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amar Singh (art Dealer)
Kanwar Amar Jit Singh (born 14 June 1989) is a British art dealer and women's rights and LGBTQ+ activist. Singh is a member of the erstwhile Kapurthala royal family through his direct lineage to Raja Nihal Singh. In addition to art dealing, Singh later included NFTs (digital art) into his dealing. Throughout his career, Singh has emphasised underrepresented female, LGBTQ+ and minority artists. Education Singh was educated at St John's Beaumont School and Charterhouse School. Career On 20 January 2017, Singh opened the Amar Gallery in London located close to the Central Saint Martins campus in North London. The gallery's inaugural exhibition was 'LINKS', by Howard Tangye, an artist who was the fashion illustration tutor and former head of womenswear at Central Saint Martins. The physical gallery space located between King's Cross and Islington, was closed in April 2019. In the two years the gallery space was open to the public, the Amar Gallery exhibited the work of female arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Emmerman
James Emmerman (born 1993) is a New York City–based photographer whose work spans editorial, fashion, photojournalism, and portrait photography. In 2018, he was named a PDN Emerging photographer. Emmerman has shot for ''The New York Times, Forbes,'' ''Billboard'', ''W Magazine'', and ''Vogue'' and commercially for Nike, Equinox, Dion Lee, and Matte Projects. Early life and education Emmerman was raised in North Carolina. He attended Emerson College and graduated with a BA in Media Arts in 2015. Work After university, Emmerman moved to New York City and worked as a photography editor for ''Document Journal'' and '' Vanity Fair''. It was during the editing jobs that Emmerman began experimenting with shooting video. He began shooting local New York City–residents and queer youth in 2014. From there, they began shooting friends and peers working and participating in New York's nightlife. In 2019, he directed ''ChokeHole'', a New Orleans–based event thrown by queer nightlif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RedBird Capital Partners
RedBird Capital Partners is an American investment management firm founded in 2014 in New York by Gerry Cardinale. The company has assets under management of over $10 billion as of 2022. Investments RedBird is active in several tertiary sectors such as consumer goods, financial services, telecommunications, media, technology and sports. The company serves as producer of Amazon’s '' Reacher'' series and Paramount’s '' Top Gun: Maverick''. RedBird has also invested in Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's Artists Equity, LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s SpringHill Company and the Fenway Sports Group. In August 2019, RedBird acquired a minority stake in YES Network, after helping Yankee Global Enterprises activate their buy back option to purchase Fox's 80% share for $3.5 billion after Disney acquired 21st Century Fox during the same year after the Department of Justice ordered Disney to sell the network on antitrust grounds due to its ownership of ESPN. On August 31, 2022 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
