Review
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...
Lampoon, the new issue, a tribute to the independent publishing: roughness and sustainability
The new issue of Lampoon is a tribute to independence: in publishing, music, and architecture. From Romain Laprade to Olivier Zham, from Joel Dicker to Caterina Barbieri, Mathis Chevalier, Isabelle...
Marco Bay: botany for Louis Vuitton on Via Montenapoleone
With the reopening of Louis Vuitton on Via Montenapoleone, an interview with landscape architect Marco Bay about the project at Palazzo Taverna: the word “native” no longer makes sense—botany is...
Rediscovering Marine Forests at Miart: Julian Charrière’s Art for Ruinart
Julian Charrière has conceived an ode to the Lutetian Sea, a vast body of water that covered the Champagne region 45 million years ago. At Miart, Ruinart continues its initiative,...
Lampoon, 10 Years – From the Digital Tribes to a Single Obsession: Sustainability
Ten years of Lampoon: our story, from college to a stool in the newsroom, all the way to the Digital Tribes and the fashion industry—then the world changed: the only...
Huasco Valley: Villages and Communities Abandoned at the Edge of Chile’s Desert
Photographer Cristian Ordóñez explores, through images, the last communities before the world’s largest desert capturing poverty, pollution, and lack of access to essential services in what is called the “Garden...
Definition of Sustainability: Fashion Without Microplastics
It has become a common refrain—among buyers as well as certain managers—to say that sustainability doesn’t sell, when in fact sustainability simply isn’t on offer. The entire fashion industry is...
Ukraine, Georgia Slovakia and post-soviet heritage
Ukraine, Georgia Slovakia. Three different countries, at three different stages in the relationship with Russia. Ukraine, Georgia Slovakia: War, Protest, and Dissent
Trump against Woke Culture – and the leaders who removed words
From the Newspeak in Orwell’s 1984 to the 20th-century totalitarian regimes – nothing about what Trump is now doing is new: removing words means removing ideas
Land Loss: The Erosion and Fragility of the British Coast
Max Miechowski photographs loss, acceptance, and the effects of time passing along the southern British coast—documenting the existence of communities living on the cliffs, at the edge of the land
Napoli Amore by Assouline: A Book on Naples, Its Culture, Clashes, and Link to Time
Napoli Amore is a book by Assouline – author Cesare Cunaccia explores the soul of Naples: every layer of history grafts onto another, generating time-bending short circuits
Bre Andy: Documenting Black and Brown Women Through Figurative Oil Painting in Brooklyn
Inspired by the writings of Angela Davis, Bre Andy seeks to understand the struggles of black women who came before her, specifically in the context of black women in America
Le Corbusier in Firminy: 60 years after the first stone was laid
Nei luoghi simbolo dell’architettura ruvida di Le Corbusier – a Firminy, un progetto di rinnovamento urbano: una serie di edifici per corpo e mente
Roham Shamekh on Artful Design Manifestation and Pharrell’s Echoes
Roham Shamekh Shamekh incorporates elements like graffiti, tattoo paintings, floral motifs and generative AI into functional creations that comment on collective identity, environment and interconnectedness
Loving Raw, Playing Rough: No Romanticism on San Valentine’s Day
What does it mean Playing Rough? Intensity, power, and risk in sexual desire on San Valentine’s Day – from ancient Rome’s brothels to digital pornography and algorithm-driven hookups
The Designer Behind László Tóth: Judy Becker’s vision for Oscar-winning film The Brutalist
László Tóth’s story of migration may be the most American of all. Judy Becker, production designer of Carol and Brokeback Mountain fame, on how she developed the work of this...
My father went into the woods, with the intention of never coming back
Now is not the right time – a Photo Book Peter Pflügler: "The flying chair is the one my mother used to breastfeed me in, when all happened. It needed...
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
Stones that breathe and water that sees: Tarek Atoui
With dripping water, a breathing organ, and handmade Korean drums, Improvisation in 10 Days unites Atoui’s work into an evolving sonic environment
Can We Escape Consumerism? Black Friday Through the Cultural Humor of Marivan Martins
From Target shoppers fighting over a Stanley cup to an ambulance used for deliveries—I decided to make a book inspired by real news events.” Brazilian photographer Marivan Martins recounts the...
Straight or Straight Acting? Nikolai Voelcker on Male Dynamics in Berlin
Friends joke, stretch limbs, shift postures, and press next to each other – in Sonntagnachmittags by Nikolai Voelcker that homoerotic tension rests at the core
Jordan Watson reimagines the present of the Black community with “Easier to Breathe” in St. Moritz
Robilant + Voena presents Jordan Watson’s Afrofuturist works in the Protestant Church of St. Moritz – an interview with Jordan Watson on art, digital community, and racism
Milan, from Rationalism to the Neo Ratio of Material
A Milanese attitude, an identity for the city of Milan: from Rationalism to the exposed engineering of the Torre Velasca, to new materials – questions and answers
How Wrestling Rituals and Creative Vision Shape Modern Senegal
Photographer Kévin Félicianne’s lens on urban Dakar: documenting the city’s transformation through teenagers’ eyes, as Senegalese wrestling grows from rural tradition to stadium spectacle
Inside the ‘Back Office’ of War: Nothing Personal, Just Business
Between hyperrealistic simulators and bullet-shaped finger food, photographer Nikita Teryoshin reveals the behind-the-scenes of the arms trade—one of the biggest economic sectors in the world
We Are Workers: Working-Class Heroes on Route 66
When the glitter of Tinsel Town fades, dreamers head west in search of opportunity—only to find themselves waiting tables in a diner. Through the raw lens of Rupert Tapper, explore...
