Interviews
Design is not decoration: Lella and Massimo Vignelli at Triennale Milano
Studio Mut's Thomas Kronbichler on curating the Vignelli retrospective at Triennale Milano — the freedom of not being a devotee, the "madness" phase, and why blank pages beat mood boards
Martin Parr: Global Warning,: if British seaside culture becomes social critique
From selfies to rising seas: revisiting our interview with the late Martin Parr and his sharp, affectionate eye on people, places and a changing planet
Shamel Pitts returns to Jacob’s Pillow and reshapes masculinity in the ring
A work interrupted by catastrophe returns to the stage: Shamel Pitts brings Touch of red back to Jacob’s Pillow as the Doris Duke Theatre reopens after years of absence and...
Why we keep falling for Elmgreen & Dragset
As their work enters Casa Italia at Triennale Milano, we return to our interview on space, storytelling, and the art of dressing the white cube
Arrested for a photoshoot – Russia’s cage system
The State does not stop at punishment – it enters the body, lets it bleed, suffocate and deteriorate without care or urgency. Detention, feminist art and the cage of Putin’s Russia
We’re all eating from the same trash can: Jordan Sullivan and the Sick America
“Capitalism cultivates addiction and delirium – our souls were sold long ago.” A conversation with the painter Jordan Sullivan on marginal life and contemporary American experience
How Richert Beil shapes garments from grit
From latex tailoring to deadstock suiting, Richert Beil’s work sits in the friction between instinct and resistance—imperfection, limitation and delay are part of the process
Vignesh Sundaresan: from collecting digital art to building its infrastructure
With Your view matter by Olafur Eliasson, Vignesh Sundaresan introduces Padimai Art & Tech Studio, a space that commissions artworks and preserves viewer trajectories using a lightweight blockchain system
New York, no filter, Daniel Arnold after Instagram: You Are What You Do
Over the last two decades, American photographer Daniel Arnold has recorded moments of humanity on New York streets. His new book: You Are What You Do
The truth about modern adulthood: rootlessness and global drift
Into Ayşegül Savaş’s new novel, The Anthropologists – unnamed cities, rituals, and a life lived between languages reveal the architecture of modern adulthood and global displacement
Amanda Wall turns to the bed—not for rest, but for resistance
In an era where everything digital dissolves into vapour, Amanda Wall insists on stains, scars, and brushstrokes that mark time and presence—We're leaving the rug, this is our life
Alex Lawther on “Alien: Earth” – Cult teen sociopaths and the softness of survival
From Black Mirror to The End of the F**ing World and now Alien: Earth, Alex Lawther reflects on fear, AI, and playing care in a militarized future
Perfection Kills the Person: Inside Hart Lëshkina’s Boy World Effigy II
In the multichannel installation at O–Overgaden, a historic Danish boys’ choir becomes a living metaphor for modern control. Boy World Effigy II by Hart Lëshkina dissects harmony, and the death...
Mircea Cantor and the Aleppo Soap – from destruction to the UNESCO list
The destruction suffered by Aleppo, migrations, bombings, and in the midst of all this Mircea Cantor discovered a humble material: Aleppo Soap, which in 2024 was inscribed on the UNESCO...
Anthea Hamilton: Oil makes everything slippery – soap brought the idea back to earth
Anthea Hamilton reflects on the role of tactility in her installations, from quail eggs and bondage rope to plush pumpkins and perfume
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
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,...
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
35 years of Galleria Continua: “we’re ordinary people, without powerful families behind us”
Interview with Lorenzo Fiaschi, Maurizio Rigillo, and Mario Cristiani of Galleria Continua on 35 years of activity: short supply chains, slow routes, reuse, and CO₂ in San Gimignano
Setchu: Satoshi Kuwata on Japanese principles and the leather supply chain
“I traveled to Zimbabwe, met the people, saw the process. I didn’t want an abstract version of sustainability.” An interview with Setchu’s Satoshi Kuwata on materials and transparent sourcing
Sex and politics make us dirty: Peter Cameron
Writing without filters, dirty minds, clean pages: conversation with American writer Peter Cameron about sex, shame, and the stories we hide
Armani’s story is an explanation of work ethic
Giorgio Armani, the fashion paradox and the fight against consumerism: we don't need to produce in a continuous flow, we have to teach our customers to buy less
Linder Sterling: the ultimate recycler of pornographic imagery
An interview with artist Linder Sterling – armed with a surgeon’s scalpel, she cuts away at imagery from magazines to create visual narratives exploring the body and mind of feminism
Fire Island: America’s gay community utopia has changed
New York’s gay mecca used to be only for the community – now straight families are undermining the dream. An interview with Slava Mogutin and Gio Black Peter
Bobby Beethoven: Music is the One Spell Humanity Hasn’t Totally Ruined Yet
I’m not living an environmentally conscious life. I eat factory-farmed animals. I’ve flown to the other side of the planet to DJ one event, not even slept and flown directly...
Angelo Moratti calls for a more human Capitalism: purpose is the new power
One year after leaving his family’s oil business, Angelo Moratti delivers a speech in Milan on how fame, ego, and tech hubris are eroding capitalism—an interview
Sofia Zevi: I don’t use Instagram, I don’t need it
As society chases constant novelty, —yet the value of honest endures. Sofia Zevi and the need to be critical, today when everything seems to have to be 'wow' on social...
Michael Bible Finds Freedom in Failure: “Success Is Killing Us”
In Goodbye Hotel Michael Bible intertwines ecology and spirituality, exploring post-capitalist desolation. The novel invites us to see the world through the ancient lens of a nature destined to outlive us
Marie Tomanova’s New Volume Confronts Identity, Migration, and Belonging
Marie Tomanova recovers a photographic archive from the beginning of her career, challenging the norms of photography with a single 36-exposure roll of film
Andrei Ujică: An Aesthetic Eye on Revolutions
From the fall of the Soviet Union to the arrival of the Beatles, the Romanian master filmmaker Andrei Ujică’s work draws on archival footage to depict the upheavals of the...
Mathis Chevalier – leave it to an MMA fighter to destroy toxic masculinity
As a teenager, Mathis Chevalier had trouble fitting into the school system. MMA helped him with his anger and frustration, until he decided it was time to deconstruct machismo
Carlo Traglio: a collection, to be a good one, must include a mistake
«Making art is like making love; it is carnal, physical—we all make love, but not everyone makes art». In conversation with the owner of Italian jewelry house Vhernier
DJ Hell on Raw Analog Sound: Resisting Industry Over-Polish
I never want my music to sound too clean or safe; it needs an edge and a sense that anything can happen. My music is never about polished perfection: it’s...
Joel Dicker: the Writer and the Publisher
When you take a game-changing decision, you don't understand what you’re doing. An interview with Joel Dicker, the worldwide bestselling author who decided to start his own publishing house, Rosie...
The Culture of Curiosity: Global Creatives on Raw Freedom and Responsible Innovation
Seven talents from the creative scene bring their vision to a Chanel special for Lampoon 31: from meme semiotics to feminist fantasy, each voice champions tactile experience and autonomy over...
Oda Jaune Reclaiming Wings: Angels Among Ruins
Being religious was nearly a crime. At home, my parents trained me to answer school ques- tions carefully, to evade, to feign indifference. No one could know we were believers...
Beyond the ashes: Isabelle Albuquerque crafts eternal narratives of feminine agency
"I struggled with the disconnect between my internal femininity and my body. It was before the internet. It was isolating, but there was the Amazonians…" From her studio on the...
Olivier Zahm: A Manifesto for the Independent Publishing Industry
An Interview to Olivier Zahm, Editor in Chief and co-founder of Purple Magazine, taken by Carlo Mazzoni, Editor in Chief of Lampoon. Independency: being creative today is not enough
What’s the afterlife of The Library of Light? An interview with Es Devlin
Es Devlin in conversation with Lampoon on Salone del Mobile’s Library of Light: mapping words, movement, and memory into Brera’s historic courtyard—shaping space through story
Alice Rawsthorn on design, critique, and global challenges at Prada Frames 2025
Inside Gio Ponti’s Arlecchino with design critic and former New York Times columnist, Alice Rawsthorn at Prada Frames 2025. “I felt design was misunderstood, marginalized, not taken seriously. There was...
An interview with Robert Wilson: he took a pen and draw an onion made of light
Bob Wilson x Michelangelo: La Pietà Rondanini in Mother, the opening exhibition for Salone del Mobile 2025: he took a pen and draw an onion made of light
Brunello Cucinelli: “I was a farmer, I was poor, I was crazy in love with the sky”
Imprenditoria etica: a Napoli, il conferimento honoris causa del dottorato di ricerca per il made in Italy a Brunello Cucinelli – un caso di sostenibilità umana e una domanda sul...
Charlie Porter’s Nova Scotia House: A Raw Portrait of Queer Survival
“A portrait of queer life in 1990s London, exploring the impacts of love and loss, while rejecting nostalgic narratives in favour of survival". An interview with Charlie Porter on his...
Approaching conscious young customers: Bvlgari jewels become an ethical icon
Lucia Silvestri: «I can use my position as Creative Director to share my experience, but I don’t consider myself a role model: my story proves that following real passions is...
Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian: Interstellar Communication as Cultural Resistance
In Piccadilly Un:Plugged, Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian uses noise, public installations and scientific inquiry to explore decolonization, interstellar communication and identity
“I am not a painter”: an Interview with Daniel Buren
“Many painters, few geniouses” says Daniel Buren. His investigation began in the 1960s with the use of vertical stripes, each measuring 8.7 cm: interventions on fabric, glass, wood, flags
Blood, Sweat, and Synths: How Pol Balances Brotherhood, New Wave Music and Fashion
If you discard being raw, it becomes boring. The Pol brothers grew up apart from music but found raw inspiration in the shapes and sounds of runway shows, blending post-punk...
Stefano Baisi on Crafting the World of Luca Guadagnino’s Queer: Making Love Into a Film Set
Luca Guadagnino takes William Lee’s story and does something unexpected — from miniatures, millipedes, and Mexico City, the production designer of Guadagnino’s 2024 film discusses turning William S. Burroughs’ life into a...