Ario Mezzolani
Sweat and rivalry: what happen when male bodies get too close
Locker rooms, showers and other discreet architectures have shaped male desire through rivalry, discipline and enforced proximity, from American art and cinema to photography and fashion
What does the RCTA term mean on TikTok?
RCTA (Race Change To Another) is both a popular term and a trend that has gone viral on social media platforms, like TikTok. What does RCTA mean?
The Bi culture: does bisexuality exist?
From Seventies bisexual activism to the erasure of those living outside straight and homo definitions – Pillion, Euphoria and other movies and TV series explore how visibility can question fixed notions...
We all want more sex! Independent publishing and emerging fashion
From Butt Magazine to Carne Bollente and Ludovic de Saint Sernin, independent publishing and niche fashion labels transform sex from spectacle into intimacy – shifting from glossy provocation to everyday...
Sex toys for straight men: even hard boys want to play
Once grooming and skincare defined the so-called metrosexual—today, straight men embrace sex toys as tools for self-exploration and intimacy. From Sonia Rykiel’s duck-shaped vibrators to Harry Styles’ Pleasing Yourself
Twenty years of women’s art revealing the fractures of our time
From trauma to care, absence to collective memory: The Max Mara Art Prize for Women as a space of production, reflection, and resistance in European contemporary art history
Black History Month: Why It’s Celebrated in February and Its Lasting Impact
Today we mark February as a tribute to Black History: retracing ongoing community's struggles and recent triumphs
Who is the power bottom? – phenomenology and terminology of a sexual role
When it comes to sexual roles in the LGBTQ+ community, the terminology can get slippery. Exploring the meaning of power bottom and the alleged threat to masculinity
Chi è il Power Bottom? Fenomenologia di un ruolo sessuale
Quando si tratta di ruoli sessuali nella comunità LGBTQ+, la terminologia può diventare scivolosa. Esploriamo il significato di “power bottom” e la presunta minaccia alla mascolinità.
Casa Farsetti: a relational space for city castaways and digital anchorites
A real experience with real people, where human honesty and authenticity are non-negotiable values. Casa Farsetti dusts off a 1700s farmhouse with the spirit of a couple in their 30s...
Perché Samaná? Dalle balene ai campi di cacao fino alla prima città del Nuovo Mondo
Un percorso tra balene, cascate, laboratori di cacao e pietra cinquecentesca, che attraversa la Repubblica Dominicana da est a ovest
Faggot Pride and Prejudice: does the pope awaken gay activism?
‘There is too much faggotry’ – The Pope's words sparked controversy and reawakened gay pride that seemed dormant under the blanket of internal debates on human diversity and inclusive language
Se il Papa risveglia l’orgoglio frocio e altre storie di militanza
C’è troppa frociaggine. Lo dice il Papa, non Lino Banfi. Le parole del pontefice risvegliano l’orgoglio gay e ci invitano a fare un punto sullo stato dell’attivismo politico LGBTQ+
Human fragility: Succubus Chic glamorizes illness
What is Succubus Chic ? It’s about the “heroin chic” aesthetic that can present confusing and problematic implications. Meaning, definition of Succubus Chic as a trend
Dominique White: a Black future hasn’t happened yet, but must
The Max Mara Art Prize for Women presents Dominique White’s work Deadweight – found objects gleaned from shipyards, such as sails, ropes and chains, retracing Black Diaspora and human fragility
Oltre la fluidità – intervista a Flaminia Veronesi: io sono un’alga
«Non mi riconosco nel mio nome, nella mia nazionalità, nel mio genere. Sono il risultato di ogni scultura e dipinto che ho realizzato» – maternità sociale e femminismo con Flaminia...
Beyond fluidity – Flaminia Veronesi: I am a Seaweed
«I no longer define myself by my name, my nationality, or gender. I feel the result of every sculpture and every painting I made» – the work of Flaminia Veronesi...
What is Niksen, the Dutch concept of doing nothing?
Cultural roots of Niksen: Dutch work-life balance and doing nothing. How Dutch culture values leisure time alongside productivity. Human respect, private life, personal growth
Two Spirit: who are they? understanding the fluid vocabulary
Uniting masculine and feminine energies, Two Spirit identities offer a holistic perspective on gender and spirituality. Challenging Western norms Lampoon explores the definition and the meaning of the term
The dark side of likes: Schadenfreude and the social media
Political arenas to celebrity mishaps, the pleasure of others' pain in the social media age - how Schadenfreude shapes social cohesion and trust within communities?
From Prada’s Ugly Chic to Tiktok Cringe Chic
Cringe chic is a fashion evolution from Prada's Ugly Chic. Embracing awkwardness and kitsch, redefining beauty on unconventional terms
Queerbaiting and Rainbow washing: from Harry Style to Frozen
Picture something that seems to start out with the best of intentions but ends up doing worse. The issue of queerbaiting opens the debate to human respect and the need...
Adaptive reuse within a medieval urban fabric: the case of Palazzo Petrvs in Orvieto
A boutique hotel in Orvieto housed in a restored historic palazzo, where architecture, domestic spaces, hospitality and the city’s medieval identity remain closely aligned
Everything but butt – Grindr respects sex offering visibility to side people
The rise of side: «Top or Bottom? I'm a Side». Grindr becomes the first dating app to legitimize the presence in the LGBTQ+ community of sides: men who are not...
The Twink King: from Antinous to Troye and Timothée, the beauty of humanity
Questioning heteronormativity, queerbaiting and binary patriarchy. The twink issue opens a discussion on true inclusiveness within the gay community. Troye Sivan and a video by Timothée Chalamet
Sayak Valencia: «Gore capitalism disrupts the Marxist model of consumption»
Sayak Valencia's research results on work conditions. Necropolitics and Gore Capitalism disrupt the Marxist model of production-consumption – the world of work is undergoing a radical change
Yohann Truminski and Noémie Fourmeau, Flexible, an analogical work
«How many bend to the will of others, going against the grain of what we would like to be?» – Yohann Truminski and Noémie Fourmeau release analogic photography, Lampoon Online
Chronicles from Northern India – Aziza Vasco and her travel empathic Journal
From the sacred spectacle of Varanasi and the Ganges river to the colors of Jaipur, to the Buddhist spirituality of BodhGaya. Aziza Vasco reportage in India for Lampoon online
Like Someone Alive – Dorothy Sing Zhang’s visual meditations on sleeping city-dwellers
Sleeping is an act that unites, humbles and humanises— Dorothy Sing Zhang’s series and photobook Like Someone Alive surveys and captures it, in all its sentimental beauty
Hugo Bouteyre: inside Freud’s Iceberg Theory and the unconscious mind
Black Mass – Hugo Bouteyre explores the dark storage of memories: «Memories, fantasies, desires are stored in our unconsciousness – an area we cannot reach because its resistance»
No Shoes Please: Bram van Dijk’s editorial for Lampoon digital edition
Muscles, cigarettes, old women, mustaches, queer brides, chickens, and other props. Bram van Dijk and the Delusion Theorem – the photographer offers a rebus, to the viewer lies the solution
Stefano Ortega in Argentina: a reportage among Kolla indigenous
During a visit to San Miguel de Los Colorados – a town located in the Province of Jujuy, at the far north of Argentina, near the border with Bolivia –...
Inner Child – Lorenzo Paino Fernandez’s tales of youth for Lampoon online
Lightheartedness, childhood fears and the suspension of time. Lorenzo Paino Fernandez provides us with an unconscious ‘bread crumb trail’ to explore our inner psyche
Mark Ronson at the Montreux Jazz Festival: a suspended mirror over the crowd
The mirror was transformed into a screen, during the closing night of the Montreux Jazz Festival 2023 – Audemars Piguet and Mark Ronson return in Switzerland
Aphex Twin: lucid dreams and portals of consciousness
Marking the release of his EP Blackbox Life Recorder 21f, Aphex returns to the spotlight with his oldest bond: that with video art. A journey through AFX cinematic dimensions
VRetreats Cervino: the light side of the Mount Matterhorn
In the Valtournanche, Northern Italy, the Mount Matterhorn shows his hidden sunny side. VRetreats Cervino captures its essence as Paramount Pictures did it in its logo
ARIA Retreat & SPA – Resort in symbiosis with nature on the Italian-Swiss border
An architectural project with low environmental impact that embraces Lake Lugano in harmony with the natural landscape
World Oceans Day: the impact of offshore oil and gas on the oceans
The Rosebank oil and gas field located 130 km from the Shetland archipelago could affect 16 British Marine Protected Areas (MPAs): the World Oceans Day
Near the Argentario in Tuscany, is Argentaia – a fairy tale by Lukas Wassmann
Rocks have to be broken, it takes time a castle has to be built, it takes eight years – photography Lukas Wassmann, stylist Edem Dossou for Lampoon 18, the Crafted
Protection No Longer Assured at Colección SOLO in Madrid: an analysis on the sublime
In a present marked by disruptive technologies and disinformation, armed conflicts and environmental collapse, Protection No Longer Assured revisit the concept of the sublime
Fashion lives and dies in the pipelines of consumerism
Otto von Busch: «what if fashion is just a byproduct of something else? What if fashion is just the exhaust of social processes? What if fashion is just the exhaust...
Biodegradable fireworks through the air – SPARK, sustainable pyrotechnics
Winning the Dutch Creativity Awards 2022 and 3 Lovie Awards, the fourth chapter of the Dreamscapes series omits traditional fireworks for biodegradable sparks of light
Dutch Design Week of Eindhoven – about deprogramming anthropocentric approach
Dutch Design Week 2022 presented a debate around a nature-centric future in response to the sustainability issues that we are facing. How can design help in saving the environment?
Subliminal youth and the quest for freedom – reviewing: Marie Tomanova’s photography book
New York, New York, the city, the people. Marie Tomanova introduces her work at W hotel in Rome. «It’s about the connection with the person you’re looking at»
We Are History: ‘We’re here together, changing, mutating, limbo-ing, twisting, turning into weather’
We Are History, a group show curated by Ekow Eshun offers an expansion of the visual framework surrounding climate change — from historical and postcolonial to lyrical and poetic
Petros Efstathiadis: from a pathogenic claustrophobic state to outdoor life with no restrictions
etros Efstathiadis for Lampoon Transaprency: «Electricity, telecommunications, natural forces, love, and war – they change the world, they create social classes and they push people to success or failure»