The Daily Dispatch includes reviews and critical readings of books, exhibitions, photography projects, architecture, independent publications and cultural initiatives. Each contribution connects individual work to a wider system of production, politics, technology and material culture.
Updated with new content every day, The Daily Dispatch extends Lampoon’s editorial research beyond the rhythm of the print edition. It is a continuous journal of contemporary culture — grounded in evidence, direct observation and an interest in how things are made.
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Adrien Dubost: Cartier in a bubble bath
Adrien Dubost takes the Maison’s jewelry out of the velvet box and straight into the sink. The pieces float through water, foam, fabric, blueberries, and a few accidents that look...
Satinine’s rebirth: a Milanese fragrance legend returns to claim its future
A conversation with Andrea Galletti on reviving Satinine: from chromatographic decoding of 1930s formulas to rebuilding Art déco design codes and a fully Italian supply chain for true in-house perfumery
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
Mary Kelly: seventy years of global conflict through domestic life
On show at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Mary Kelly uses dryer lint, letters, and press fragments to trace how decades of global conflict leave their mark on the ordinary aspects of...
Timothy Schaumburg — Breaking Vuitton in the Caribbean
Shot across the sunburnt calm of Palm Heights in the Cayman Islands, Timothy Schaumburg’s LV special L32 for Lampoon 32 – SOAP blends raw island edges, sharp light, and an...
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
Shall your fantasy be dismissed by some artificial intelligence?
The exhibition Cartier & Myths in Rome forces us back to the place where fantasy is born – the realm of myth – with a challenging question: will we remain...
How to Peel yourself: the ritual of shedding and becoming
In Osman Özel’s visual narrative for Lampoon SOAP, the act of cleansing becomes an intimate choreography of transformation – a meditation on identity, purity, and the art of unveiling oneself
Juergen Teller shapes Onassis Ready into a living exhibition: You are invited
Juergen Teller arrives in Athens not in a white cube: You are invited explores intimacy, archival work and new series within the unpolished framework of Onassis Ready, a former factory...
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...
Silence is Couture: Renaud Cambuzat turns Chanel Cruise into still cinema
A reflection on light and absence, Renaud Cambuzat’s contribution to Lampoon 32 SOAP investigates the language of stillness through a cinematic eye
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
The scars of industry in Lausitz, Brandenburg: Maximilian Semlinger
Lampoon SOAP: photographer Maximilian Semlinger documenting a post-industrial landscape marked by coal mining
Ash, Water, Plastic: Ritual and Reality Along the Ganges
From the divine descent through Shiva’s hair to the industrial discharge of modern cities, the Ganges tells a story of devotion and ecological crisis – between purification rituals and chemical...
The Politics of Oil: Tanoa Sasraku Reframes Corporate Souvenirs as Violent Symbols
Working with found objects, sculptures, and UV-printed paper works, Tanoa Sasraku maps the destruction of the oil industry across global affairs and the environment
The world’s first regenerative cotton grown under agroforestry
A globally relevant case study: supported by the Armani Group, a pioneering protocol for regenerative cotton grown through agroforestry is moving forward – while the first 1,000 T-shirts reach store...
Bergen, one of Europe’s rainiest cities: an offering to the sea
In Norway’s rain-soaked city, Bergen Assembly 2025 invites audiences to listen to the rain, the sea, and the more-than-human world as active collaborators in the creation of art and meaning
Charlotte Taylor: drawing the balance between fiction and structure
Between the digital and the built, Charlotte Taylor moves through worlds that mirror and inform each other — where light, weight, and narrative define how we inhabit space
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...
Carly Scott SOAP, automatic purity: a car wash is about your life
The first car wash was born from the belief that purity could be engineered - for Lampoon / SOAP, Carly Scott turns the industrial car wash into a confessional of...
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...
The difference between fashion and style – and the measure of Armani
The Giorgio Armani company: 50 years of activity and operation – style, fashion and measure, pioneering sustainability, message, and Milan’s rough architects
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...
Cara Cano: searching for a space where restraint and vitality coexist
From Korea to Paris, it’s easy to disappear into the codes of luxury — Cara Cano found her language, when she started reading more about art and understanding color and...
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
Can cinema define itself as a sustainable and inclusive industry?
Inside the film industry’s green awakening: from solar-powered sets and recycled costumes to mentoring programs like Women in Film & TV and the BFI diversity standards
Hygiene and the fracture of modernist architecture, Ignazio Gardella never designed through purity
Dispensario Antitubbercolare: Ignazio Gardella responded to political and hygienic pressures with calibrated disobedience, embedding spatial misalignments into a structure born of regulation
Dafni Krazoudi: Guilty for Lampoon SOAP
The body stands as both witness and terrain: a shoot by Dafni Krazoudi and Spyros Rennt, echoing the performance GUILTY at OHM with MOLT in Berlin, tracing an archaeology of...
Lampoon: a bar of soap cut into squares for Tiffany & Co.
Lauren Bamford transforms Tiffany’s high jewelry into works of contemporary still life – coffee stains, soap cuts, and scuffed textures surround gold and diamonds
Alex Dobé: what’s raw and unposed? We have to be pickier and more precise
Photographer Alex Dobé’ captures what’s raw and unposed – in Paris, he stands out: There are a lot of avant-garde brands, but I’m not sure anyone is reshaping fashion on...
The meaning of lingerie in shaping female identity
From tights and bras to swimsuits and closets: lingerie as a lens to understand female identity, memory, whiteness, and the rituals passed down through generations. A performance by Charlotte Fourneuf-Niel
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
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
Photographer Naguel Rivero transforms fashion imagery into a meditation on form
A cinematic approach, documentary and fiction – what emerges from Naguel Rivero's photography is not fashion, but choreography: a sequence of gestures that blur the line between movement and constraint
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
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...
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,...
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
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
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
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
How digital craftsmanship is redesigning the textile supply chain
From Amsterdam, BYBORRE has established a new model of digital manufacturing that blends transparency, precision, and responsibility — proving that technology can help fashion produce less, but better.
The future is gastropod: protein without the planetary price tag
Vienna’s Gugumuck Farm: free-range snails grown on kitchen scraps and herbs can out-perform chickens and pigs in feed efficiency and shrink agriculture’s footprint
The Soap wants to be the Sun
Olivier Zahm reconnects with the emotional essence of image-making: his portraits of Annabelle Weatherly reveal clarity and vulnerability, while Duran Lantink’s sculptural forms redefine beauty itself
Snails: love darts, reciprocal insemination, and polyamorous courtship rituals
Yuri Tuma, co-founder of the Institute of Postnatural Studies: snail mating behaviors that complicate pleasure, violence, and post-patriarchal sex narratives in backyard biodiversity hotspots
Snails as Symbols: from garden pest to cultural mirror
Snail mucin, gardening blogs, Derek Jarman, and heterotopias: a multi-layered reading of the garden as a metaphor for systemic violence
