Review
Marcell Dettmann on the cost of integrity: artistic credibility still matters in electronic music
In an industry where hype often overshadows substance, artistic integrity remains a radical act. Marcell Dettmann on rejecting major deals to embracing imperfection
Durk Dehner – Sex between men is just plain manly, no matter what position one takes
Durk Dehner of Tom of Finland Foundation dissects one of the many elements that define the queer as a community and a tribe, the roots of the sexual attraction the...
What does “editorial” mean? Redefining an overused word
A publisher is someone who guarantees the context and the trust that this context promises: the publisher allows creative talent to freely express themselves always within a shared message
A Sixties villa show the rough character of Atlantic France
Far from the clichés of the Côte d’Azur, a house becomes a stage for reinvention. In the windswept Basque town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Marie Schuller captures her mother in her house
Pol Anglada on Tom of Finland, Anonymous Johns, and Queer Eroticism
From Tumblr awakenings to Tom of Finland’s ghosts, Pol Anglada’s drawings spit in the face of sanitized queerness and dare to stay raw—hair, sweat, rough bodies and fragile intimacies sketched...
On resisting digital noise: Torus is building an underground sound
From refusing OpenAI's Super Bowl ad to building underground sound installations and surviving bureaucratic shutdowns—Torus on rejecting algorithmic culture and improvising through failure
Clara 3000: the music industry’s demand for branding is unsustainable
For DJ Clara 3000, the dancefloor is a space for political resistance — a radical alternative to a music industry increasingly driven by branding, repetition, and the erosion of artistic...
Florence: from cultural heritage to an open-air stage of fakes
Photographer Louis De Belle investigates how mass tourism, obsessive visual reproduction, and urban trompe-l’œil strategies have contributed to a distorted identity of Florence
The Tunisian Shepherd – learning to dismiss the luxury of waste
Photographer Akila Berjaoui and Clément LaGuardia uncovered the quiet resilience of Tunisia’s shepherds — revealing a raw portrait of ancestral living, slow fashion
Is preservation without use is another form of decay?
Photographer Allegra Martin explores the contradictions of modern architecture—not as static monuments to an ideal past, but as evolving, inhabited structures shaped by time, use and political change
Who are the Boomers? The ones who dismiss the word “sustainability”
Sustainability is an overused word, dangerously close to losing its meaning — and Boomers are quick to dismiss it, even though it remains the only reliable code of critical thinking
Alex Black and the Performance of Beauty in an Age of Visual Saturation
Through staged photography and AI-generated symbols, Canadian director Alex Black reimagines identity and desire—while exposing the unsustainable systems behind how beauty is made and sold.
Maria Luisa Frisa and the political value of fashion
Fashion needs a political message: activism, disruption, obsession – fashion is no longer just a creative matter. The responses of Maria Luisa Frisa
There’s no room for maximalist lines in studioutte’s work
Patrizio Gola and Guglielmo Giagnotti reject sustainability as a trend: it should be inherent to design. Archetypes, simple forms, and a refusal of decor
Indigo Identity: Stacey Gillian Abe’s Exploration of Memory
Through materials and autobiographical themes, Stacey Gillian Abe creates works that examine Black identity and reconstruct historical narratives
Home Fetish: a Visual Exploration of Obsession, Comfort, and Domestic Rituals
Through the lens of Lorenzo Venturini: Home Fetish unveils the ambiguous relationship between the self and domestic space, where comfort becomes obsession and everyday objects turn into fetishes
Not more, but deeper: Ordet’s curatorial and editorial vision
At the intersection of contemporary art and publishing, Ordet and its sister project Lenz Press champion a thoughtful, sustainable, and collaborative approach to cultural production in today’s accelerated world
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
Jonathan Anderson’s Dior: Merging Raw Edge with Classicism
Collars embodied the split personality: one edge pressed and buttoned with couture precision, the other casually sprung upward. At Dior, Jonathan Anderson brings roughness into dialogue with polish
Terraforma Exo 2025 explores sound as a tool for ecological transformation
From the green heart of Parco Sempione to the layered histories of Villa Tasca, Terraforma Exo 2025 turns architecture and landscape into instruments. An interview with founder Ruggero Pietromarchi
Black Cowboys, Banlieues, and Beyond: Twenty Years of Mohamed Bourouissa
From Paris suburbs to Philadelphia stables, Mohamed Bourouissa interrogates the politics of representation and community in urban peripheries across twenty years of projects
Rainbows in Shadows by Jenna Gribbon: seeing and being seen
Jenna Gribbon’s first solo show in Milan challenges the definition of looking, inviting the viewer to step into the artist’s place and inhabit her subjectivity
En Route magazine and the story of Cesare Poma: an exhibition at the Vatican Library
A collection of early 20th-century newspapers from around the world has been rediscovered at the Vatican Apostolic Library. The House of Dior is establishing a scholarship to study it
Red, love, perfection and cruelty – Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti
The Valentino Garavani & Giancarlo Giammetti Foundation unveils Orizzonti Rosso at PM23—an homage to the signature hue that defines their story. More than glittering parties and fairy-tale princesses, their vision once...
Lucille Durez: Statues, Bodies, and the Politics of Visibility – Why Monumentality Still Matters
The power of statues lies in their resemblance to us. Any human body could be cast in stone or bronze. Yet, as Judith Butler reminds us, for a body to...
New Voices in Venice: Azerbaijan, Latvia, Lebanon and more at Biennale 2025
First-time and emerging participants reshape discourse, with Azerbaijan’s “Equilibrium” and Latvia’s border defenses challenging the Arsenale’s traditional Western narrative
Cross Cultural Chairs: The Chair as a Form of Identity and Belonging in the World
Matteo Guarnaccia’s project challenges the global standardization of chair design: postures, materials, and practices shared between artisans, designers, and local communities
Stories of power and sustainability: what does Avignon’s arc mean today?
La cronaca cattolica e Louis Vuitton al Palazzo dei Papi: la vita in un centro di provincia è un percorso di sostenibilità – Avignone, sito dell’Unesco, filiera corta e occupazione...
Maria Grazia Chiuri in Rome at Villa Albani: after nine years of activism at Dior
Maria Grazia Chiuri ends her tenure at Dior with a show at Villa Albani and a string of Roman references: Mimi Pecci Blunt, Teatro Cometa, Pietro Ruffo’s zodiac, and the...
Consumerism and Built-in Obsolescence, in Counterpoint to Adriano Olivetti
An implied contradiction: Formafantasma’s reflection on consumerism and Technological Obsolescence takes place in Venice at the Olivetti store—a primary reference for the purpose economy
Amanda Ba, For Sports: Finding Culture in Athleticism
The rawness is being willing to take an L and take a risk and change something. Maybe it'll make you less popular than you were before, but you're trying something...
Dior show at Villa Albani Torlonia: the garden where Neoclassicism was born
In the garden that served as a laboratory of Neoclassicism—where Winckelmann and Cardinal Albani reinvented the dialogue between ancient art and nature—the show is a tribute to the cultural ties...
At the Biennale, it’s all sweat: a trillion trees—nothing else will save us
Introduction to Carlo Ratti’s Architecture Biennale: the lone subject is sustainability—a “mind-boggling” number of trees, humanity on its knees, sweat, heat, and a bacterial population boom
About the Circle: Eduard Sánchez Ribot explores roundness
Roundness is the oldest gesture in design, and yet it still finds fresh ways to speak. In this series Eduard Sánchez Ribot wanders that endless curve, pairing icons of craft...
Yvon Lambert’s Paris outpost reinvents the classic gallery
Weaving a bookshop, a publishing house, and a spirit of serendipity into an ever‑shifting cultural laboratory – Yvon Lambert is currently showcasing Distances, the new exhibition by photographer Romain Laprade
Chanel and Italian manufacturers: acquisitions and a show on Lake Como
On the occasion of Chanel’s show in Como, the house’s commitment to shoring up the Italian manufacturers in its supply chain—stories and snapshots from the annals of Italian style
Anna Wintour and Donald Trump: same culture, same Boomer attitude
Met Gala 2025: the same useless swagger—because only money matters; no future, no sustainability. Trump’s “Drill Baby Drill” becomes Wintour’s “Drill Baby Dance”
Intertwined: Spyros Rennt baring an evolving vision of intimacy and selfhood
The archiving of softness, Spyros Rennt continues his documentary work, showing a side of queer subculture we haven’t seen from his lens before in his new self-published photobook, Intertwined
Can Juergen Teller be Just Like Us?
In 7 ½ at Sabbioneta’s Palazzo Giardino, Juergen Teller and Dovile Drizyte turns historic ceilings and raw snapshots into an intimate stage for love, legacy, and domestic spectacle
Industry, Intimacy, Illumination: Ten Years of Lampoon at Dinner with Chanel
As Chanel prepares to present its Cruise Collection on Lake Como on 29 April, a Milan dinner for Lampoon Issue 31 marks the magazine’s decade in print
Community as brand infrastructure: Nada van Dalen and Rotterdam’s independent creative scene
Positioning is the asset – fashion designer Nada van Dalen, photographer Ari Versluis and stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek examine what independence means in a globalised fashion system
Rust and dust, Navajo weaving — “Canyon Road” by Ralph Lauren
Diamonds at the center of every blanket, a red once made from insects, and the sustainability of tradition: For its new Canyon Road line, Ralph Lauren Home tapped two Diné...
Robin de Puy, beyond the Stereotype: A Dutch Photographer’s Journey Across the States
“I was frustrated with the way Americans are seen from the outside, especially from a European point of view.” Americans emerge as complex individuals with hopes, dreams, fears, and a capacity...
Deb Koo’s still life paintings pay homage to the fleeting moments that mold our lives
Saturated tones and pastel palettes intertwine in Deb Koo’s oil paintings portraying mundane moments, personal experiences and memories from her childhood
A Storm in Grandma’s Tea Set: Amit Berman on roughness and nostalgia
«Roughness has been present in my work since the beginning; as a self-taught artist, I used to paint naively, working with what I had and expressing myself in raw ways»...
Oak, Wool, and Saddle Leather – Ralph Lauren Home and the American Southwest
At Milan’s Fuorisalone, Ralph Lauren is introducing “Canyon Road”: wool instead of linen, brown instead of green, surfaces that bear marks and stains, amidst mountains and desert. It’s a rougher...
