Lampoon Magazine presents reviews of exhibitions, books, fashion collections, and events that engage with environmental awareness, cultural evolution, and collective identity.
Writers analyze how creators address environmental concerns, how institutions adapt to changing social values, and how fashion lines incorporate transparent manufacturing.
Each review outlines the relationship between artistic expression and public response, covering resource management and community well-being.
Readers encounter commentary on curatorial choices and thematic clarity.
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Josef Kaiser and the modernity of GDR architecture
From Socialist Classicism to functionalist modernism: the transformation of architecture in the GDR through the work of architect Josef Kaiser
Art Basel Paris 2026: a fifth edition read through its materials
From tar to recycled X-ray silver: how 211 Art Basel Paris exhibitors work their materials, October 23 to 25
Art Basel Paris 2026: Alice Diop’s Geste de Consolation brings the Public Program to Palais d’Iéna
At Miu Miu’s Geste de Consolation, Alice Diop turns spectatorship into part of Palais d’Iéna’s architecture, making visitors conscious of how they look, where they sit, and how they are...
Where does heavy leather come from, and what happens before it becomes a shoe?
From the structure of collagen to chestnut, mimosa and quebracho tannins: the collaboration between Cuoio di Toscana and Paul Andrew becomes the occasion for an inquiry into heavy leather
People, places, and knowledge behind LVMH: Les Journées Particulières
Les Journées Particulières: LVMH opens the workshops behind its objects
How much it costs to make an image, and who pays for it
Thirteen years in fashion led Voranger to build Creatives' Tool: it takes rates anonymously and returns median figures by brand, profession and years of experience. A photographer can look up...
Rubber as structure and surface: Rich Aybar tests one material
Photographs of his work read as glass or resin. The haptic quality does not transfer. Aybar asks how far a single material goes as structure, surface, and the layer against...
What questions would you ask if your pen pal were an 18-year-old female chatbot? Brea Souders
Another online Pervert – Brea Souders turned 2 years of chatbot conversations into images: the chatbot is a "she," programmed by men who taught her how to speak and what...
We are all pornstars now: what my AI deepfakes taught me about the future of desire
A digital anthropologist let an AI clone her, then watched her avatar seduce strangers — on avatar envy, looksmaxxing, and the animal fashion keeps putting back on the runway
Jean Schlumberger at Tiffany & Co.: I Am Only a Pencil, in Paris
The Exhibition I Am Only a Pencil in Paris: Jean Schlumberger’s creative process at Tiffany & Co., from sketch to workshop
Pillings, friction, wool: when the flaw becomes the design
Anatomy of pilling - from fibres, friction and washing to Ryota Murakami, who has made it the language of a brand
Radical tailoring: What does it mean today?
Radical tailoring: when tailoring moves beyond human anatomy, using construction to enlarge, displace, and reconstruct the dressed body
Mushrooms framed by steel, concrete, and digital code: Zheng Mahler’s Clouds
Built from fungi, fog, datasets, and machine learning, Zheng Mahler's Mushroom Clouds asks what happens when an exhibition becomes a living system
From tapper to mill, the plot disappears: how natural rubber gets its paper trail back
Eighty-five percent of the world's natural rubber is tapped by smallholders, one tree at a time, and new EU rules now require every buyer to prove which plot the cut...
How the stereo speaker became one of design’s quietest icons
From hi-fi engineering to fashion boutiques, the stereo speaker has evolved beyond consumer electronics into a design object shaping interiors, listening culture and contemporary aesthetics
Dracula without images: how Audible builds cinematic horror
An interview with Robin Morgan-Bentley, director of scripted drama and original fiction at Audible UK, on how Dracula is built as cinematic audio, from editorial development to studio recording and...
Homo Faber: respect and attention: the message it spreads offers civic value
In Venice, on the island of San Giorgio, Homo Faber 2026: imagination is that confusion that resembles the sky, but a cornucopia can offer flowers and some salad
What remains of a chair: Martino Gamper and the design of waste
From Martino Gamper to Markus Friedrich Staab, chairs built from recovered materials reveal the labor, the limits and the contradictions hidden behind the unique piece
How do you milk a snail?
The great snail rush: ethical farming innovations and the cultural evolution that turned an unlikely ingredient into a cornerstone of the beauty industry
The US(er): Marcel Top archives Trump-era government propaganda
We Will Not Be Stopped collects and verifies DHS and ICE posts, tracing how state violence is edited
Danny Boyle’s Ink: The film, the material and the industry behind it
Danny Boyle’s Ink opens Venice Film Festival 2026 with Rupert Murdoch’s story, but the real subject is the material behind the press industry
Why is that man still burning? some lines about Burning Man
Demna, Veronica Leoni, and Louise Trotter and the rave aesthetic: it has nothing to do with the networking o that scrolls across screens every day. It is an aesthetic escape...
How porn, once a political project, became the most catalogued sector on the web
The passport to pleasure: how porn went back to asking for your documents: from the magazine under the mattress to the hundred billion of the digital market
About Netsuke – carved in ivory or wood, hidden in kimonos
Netsuke are carved counterweights, worn at the waist to balance a pouch tied to a kimono sash. Merchants wore them against silk for decades, and the friction finished the carving
The right to disappear: nun core and the end of the hot girl summer
From Nun Girl Summer to the medieval Beguines, Melissa Febos's The Dry Season traces what remains when desire stops pointing toward someone else — and who, finally, it belongs to
What do young creators do for a living? Different jobs, sex working too
Showing off online for money can help pay the rent and be a political act. They don't have clients, but a lot of fans
The Algorithm and the Hating: how outrage became fashion’s invisible engine
From Crocs to Balenciaga, ridicule has accelerated trends rather than ended them. Three voices from inside the industry explain why — and what it costs
Léon Prost: documenting without distance
Flash, and refusal of idealization: photography as exchange rather than performance, Léon Prost - the images resist polish in favor of directness
The Director Who Came From Fashion: Pop Music’s New Image Economy
Today, pop artists hire directors from fashion's inner circle. The resulting videos carry fashion's grammar — and what that trade costs the music remains an open question
Working titanium: anodizing, welding and printing the metal that won’t apologize
Fifty cents of titanium equals thousands in gold: the metal builds its case in jewelry on strength, purity and permanence: resistant to resizing, soldering, and to the market logic of...
The Bauhaus produced its own image with the same method it used for chairs
Photography arrives late at the Bauhaus and becomes the language through which the school builds and circulates its own image — the book New Woman, New Vision
Clitoris: an intersectional perspective on sexual pleasure
Desire is never neutral. From the clitoris erased by theory to a $43 billion wellness market, who gets to feel pleasure safely, and who still doesn't
350 species in one seagrass meadow: how One Ocean Foundation operates
From the Caprera Canyon to Posidonia restoration in Cala di Volpe, One Ocean Foundation builds infrastructure for marine science — the exhibition As Above, So Below in Venice
Lampoon, Horny for Culture — there is no contemporary culture but sustainability
Lampoon, Horny for Culture: sustainability as the sole form of contemporary culture — something that stimulates the erogenous receptors
Pedro Almodóvar has spent forty years refusing to let stories end
From Madrid's Movida to his most confessional films, the director keeps circling the same obsession: mothers, desire and the ending he still won't accept
Charli XCX killed the erotic album cover
Charli XCX replaced it with something far more seductive. From Roxy Music's exposed bodies to Scorsese, Jacobs, and Cale in a kitchen: desire in music learned to live inside cultural...
Unisex, androgyny, sex-less design: fashion has always been naked
From the androgynous Nineties to the gender-agnostic collections of 2026: fashion has spent a century trying to neutralize sex – but sex is stronger than fashion
Dev Dhunsi’s Mixed asks who gets to define a readable identity
Published by MACK, the photobook uses water, textile and archival images to examine mixed heritage, diaspora and the systems that demand readable identities
Lampoon Ruvido — editorial identity and the coherence of a message
Lampoon Ruvido — from an American English vocabulary to ten years of publishing: the coherence of a message and the concept of rough
Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Roman couture debut: Fendi after Fendi
The color people actually wear is black, Chiuri says, and she rebuilds a house on that diagnosis: a Fendi couture debut of severity, craft, and almost no fur at all
Wasted Waste: the Czech design project turning textile waste into a systemic question
Wasted Waste began at a waste management facility on the Czech-Polish border – a design project on post-consumer textile disposal, first shown at Milan Design Week
Couture is a dog’s life, and Piccioli signed up at Balenciaga anyway
For fall-winter 2026, Pierpaolo Piccioli stages Balenciaga's fifty-fifth couture collection around a Cité Universitaire courtyard, fusing tailoring and flou to prove couture still breathes today
Versace after Alaïa: what Pieter Mulier will do with bondage
Alaïa and Versace: two opposing visions of sensuality that pulled fashion out of the drawing rooms of the wealthy and into the reality of the body. Mulier and Vitale: the...
Correcting, sculpting, selling: Fashion’s permanent construction site
For fashion low target brands, a Ford Mustang, a Coca-Cola bottle, and a female body obey the same logic: form, desirability, and market value. The industry's real economic engine
The dildo: made in the Stone Age, banned by the Church, sold at Sephora
Female pleasure has always been somebody else's political problem. The history of an object every civilization made and most tried to suppress
Porn outlasts chic: why Hodakova escapes the boredom of fashion
Between corporate dungeons and tired sustainability, Ellen Hodakova Larsson rescues fashion from beige — discarded materials and fetish imagery to build a world far outside the conglomerates' rooms
