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The Art Field
Maurizio Cattelan: Art is not a detergent. It doesn’t clean, it stains
An interview with Maurizio Cattelan: art shouldn’t wash anything away. I don’t want people leaving reassured or clutching a moral. If something sticks, let it be friction
Magazine
The Art Field
Inside Mater, the Peruvian center blending ancestral knowledge and science
In Peru’s Sacred Valley, Mater studies native species and climate data to preserve ancestral agricultural knowledge. Photographer Gaia Anselmi Tamburini translates this research into a visual record
Humanities
The Architecture of the Body: Lampoon SOAP
A cinematic approach, documentary and fiction, photographer Naguel Rivero transforms fashion imagery into a meditation on form and distance –Lampoon SOAP
The Art Field
Lampoon SOAP: Lara Giliberto – between Protestantism and Catholicism
Photographer Lara Giliberto for Lampoon SOAP: tension between redemption and fall – on faith, guilt, and the hidden landscapes of the human soul
Music and Performance
Lampoon SOAP: clean and unclean, Sofia Alazraki
In her still lifes for Lampoon SOAP, Sofia Alazraki reflects on the dialectic of purity and decay — where discipline meets residue, and the language of the everyday becomes an ode to Dirty Beauty
The Art Field
Amit Berman turns pain into softness
I work in a messy, dirty way. Beneath the roughness of grainy canvas and cadmium underpainting, Amit Berman stages male nudity as a zone of negotiation – trauma and tenderness, sex and self-approval
Call To Action
Why can’t we recycle car parts? Because they’re designed not to be
The automotive industry leaves behind a global trail of damage: a residual mix of plastic, foam, glass fibres, and micro-tissues is mostly landfilled. Not easy to clean this up
Humanities
Soap up – the secret ritual of corporate men
Through cross-dressing and cleansing, the men envisioned by photographer Alvarez Garcia and stylist Andrea Colace explore femininity without renouncing masculinity
The Art Field
François Berthoud: mistakes are one of the things digital tools can’t offer
Blending traditional tools and contemporary technology, artist illustrator François Berthoud carves linoleum plates by hand, uses vegetable-based ink and plays with net distortions, celebrating process over product
Crafting
Hermès Manufactory Riom: two and a half days to craft a Birkin
When luxury deserves respect: 250 new jobs in a French province, education and culture in a manufacturing district, handmade saddle stitching
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Italia
Tracciabilità
Whole Lotta Hemp vuole ricostruire in Emilia Romagna una filiera della canapa
Agricoltori locali, tracciabilità e usi industriali della fibra e del canapulo: la filiera della canapa di Whole Lotta Hemp, per la bioedilizia, i materiali industriali e l’agricoltura rigenerativa
Filiera Italiana
Canapa: la filiera italiana, l’industria del tessuto, fibra e filati, la bioedilizia e quanto altro
Canapa sostenibile: forse l’unica fibra tessile vegetale coltivabile in Italia – stigliatura e macerazione per una filiera locale per i tessuti, il cartario, l’edilizia, l’energetico
Design e Architettura
Open House Milano: dieci anni di città aperta tra architettura, acqua e soglie
Tra case-scrigno, teatri ritrovati e quartieri in trasformazione, il volume del decennale di Open House Milano offre chiavi di lettura per una metropoli che si ricompone per frammenti e pratiche dal basso
Musica
Torino, C2C Festival – Per aspera ad astra, la luce al buio per Sergio Ricciardone
Torino saluta l’edizione più grande di C2C Festival. La voce di Battiato, Nicolas Jaar, Blood Orange, il muro di casse dello Stone Island Stage – maniacale e coeso
Design e Architettura
Tacchini: domestico e antiretorico – micro-variazioni che modificano la percezione della forma
Dalla rilettura dei Maestri alla sperimentazione materica, Tacchini è un metodo fondato sul dialogo tra generazioni e sul nuovo spazio milanese come luogo di ricerca
Design e Architettura
Villaggio Olimpico di Milano-Cortina 2026: critiche, tempi, costi e futuro
Conclusi i lavori del Villaggio Olimpico dopo 30 mesi, il progetto da 330 milioni di euro sarà riconvertito in residenze e alloggi per studenti, dopo le critiche iniziali legate alle scelte architettoniche
Musica
Un documentario per umanizzare l’opera – La Forza del Destino e la Scala di Milano 
Mani, voci, sudore, fatica. La regista francese Bonnefont rompe il mito e racconta il corpo vivo della Prima – un dietro le quinte lungo oltre 70 giorni
Humanities
Cultura giapponese e occidentale a confronto: individualismo contro collettivismo?
Come Giappone e Occidente affrontano la crisi climatica, valorizzano l’artigianato e ridefiniscono il rapporto tra individuo e comunità
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HOTELS
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Solsequium, the sun’s own flower: Ffern Summer 25
A fragrance house rewriting the codes of perfumery, where scarcity is the new abundance and a summer sunset an eternal dream
When the Gong Rings: Floraïku Turns Afternoon Tea into Perfume
Floraïku’s latest eau de parfum traces the arc of a gong strike, echoing the mindful swell and release of afternoon tea rituals—each moment sweetened by the allure of traditional dorayaki
How Maison Margiela’s Replica Line Bottled Winter’s Essence
From Chamonix’s Snow-Covered Chalets to the Lab: By the Fireplace, part of the Replica collection, draws on the nostalgia of 1970s Chamonix, blending raw materials and alpine culture into a fragrance
Diptyque Re-lights the Neon of the Orphéon
More than half a century later, Diptyque has returned to that ember-lit cradle of its creativity, transforming memories of sax riffs and swirling cigarette ribbons into a limited-edition collection that puts the club’s name, Orphéon, in lights once again
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Reader
The Publishing Industry
Santedicola: the rebirth of a Roman newsstand as a civic and cultural hub
Santedicola, Piazza Imola, Roma: Gaetano Orefice and an abandoned newsstand in San Giovanni district: a small-scale cultural hub, adaptive reuse and sustainable design
The Art Field
Found objects, fabrics, flesh: Art Basel Paris and the return of materiality 
From digital drift to material presence. How everyday matter became contemporary meaning. Art Basel Paris: a new stability
Food
Avril 50, Philadelphia. A time capsule of 1984 with magazines and journals
Established while he was completing his second master’s degree, Shahidi founded Avril 50 as a response to the lack of stores carrying magazine publications and academic journals that catered to students’ needs and wants
Smoke Signals, San Francisco. Two thousand reading materials sold at a time
«In French, smoke signals means signaux de fumée – communicating through smoke signals – how I see newspapers and magazines as a tool to share and disseminate information today»
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Hemp
Naturally Sourced
Hempcrete: the only building material which can sequester CO2
How hemp can become the game changer in the construction and building industry: a look into hempcrete and what it means for future structures
Naturally Sourced
What is a purpose-driven economy? Definition, meaning of each contemporary work
Running a business means giving profit to the owner and workers, as well as the community and the area where the business grows: purpose economy is a successful strategy for 2024
Naturally Sourced
Hemp Kamiko: Issey Miyake and the Japanese Craftsmanship
Under the creative direction of Satoshi Kondo, Issey Miyake pays tribute to the kamiko fabric tradition, made from fine hemp fibers and Japanese paper
Naturally Sourced
100% female Hemp plants – the future is here 
One of the most versatile and sustainable plant, hemp could explore mass production entry with NWG’s AMPLIFY hybrid trait fostering hemp populations with up to 100% female plants
Naturally Sourced
Every H is always for Hemp – Maren Krings says it loud: it’s all about Hemp
Maren Krings’ book H is for Hemp investigates industrial hemp: phytoremediation, carbon sequestration, and its potential in sustainable manufacturing practices
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