Tag: Exhibitions
Nemika, Tokyo. Japanese philosophy and the cycle of life in garden-themed experience
It derives its name from the three elements of the Nemika world – root ‘ne’, fruit ‘mi’, and flower ‘ka’. Together, the three words allude to the materiality of soil and earth interpreted...
Carlo De Carli in mostra a Milano: il design per l’uomo
Le sciabolate di luce e i neon, Gio Ponti e Fontana, la pittura e lo scotch: Carlo De Carli era un architetto integrale. La mostra al Polimi, in conversazione con...
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...
La ruggine e la polvere, la tessitura dei Navajo – Canyon Road di Ralph Lauren
I diamanti al centro delle coperte, il rosso come quello che si faceva con gli insetti, la sostenibilità della tradizione: per Canyon Road, Ralph Lauren Home ha chiamato due designer...
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
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...
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...
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...
Alcova a Varedo: ritorna la storia di SNIA Viscosa e il dramma delle fibre sintetiche
Alcova apre un dialogo fra creatività e archeologia industriale abitando l’ex SNIA Viscosa di Varedo. Una storia di conquiste sociali e momenti di gloria, di crisi e lasciti ambientali
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
How Type Books Champions Diversity and Local Culture in Toronto
Joanne Saul and Samara Walbohm began with an art gallery in the basement and a bookstore above it, preserving the timeless charm of classic bookstores in a changing world
Galerie Philia at Giardino Corsini with Future Relics – New Expressions of the Medici Legacy
Contemporary designers explore Florentine Renaissance archives, reinterpreting Medici symbols and techniques to create “relics” intended for the future – Future Relics
For art’s sake: Courtney Mattison: marine conservation science and sculpting
By creating sculptures representing the anthropogenic issues affecting the ocean, Mattison creates a visual representation of the message of the scientific community
CØR and VAUST bring Berlin’s roughness to Paris
The creative heart of Paris is home to a brutalist space designed by the Berlin-based studio VAUST dedicated to exploring collectible design and functional art
Even a mass-produced object can have a rough soul
The philosophy of Eileen Gray, the forms of Bauhaus, the brushstrokes of Mirò, and the scenography of contemporary theater – in conversation with Belgian Designer Bob Verhelst, the collaboration with...
The legacy and heritage of Venice – an honest conversation with Toto Bergamo Rossi
The main purpose of Venetian Heritage is to promote one of the less known aspects of Venetian art: the sculptures. Nobody talks about that, always painters
Power and fashionistas in the Church
The Church and the religious fashion: Fashion for God at Museum Catharijneconvent shows the artistic commitment behind the paraments of the Catholic church in the past
Want to see the world through Ruth Asawa’s eyes? Start from her drawings
Practice makes perfect: Ruth Asawa’s extensive, lifelong drawing production on paper, the fruit of the artist’s daily drawing practice, Through Line' Exhibition is now on display at the Whitney Museum
DIVA – the power of Divas is on display at the V&A museum in London
Someone might have seen the dress Edith Piaf used to wear, or the two-piece ensemble Cher wore at the 1975 Rock Music Awards, before they ever listened to one of...
Azzedine Alaïa: heritage is a matter of future – speaking to Carla Sozzani
«He was always focused on what he wanted to do. It was not a matter of seasons, not a matter of the last trend, he was Alaïa and Alaïa was...
The show in Venice Everybody Talks About the Weather – the semantics of ‘weather’ in visual art
Why does the art world shy away from reflecting on climate change through artworks? Dieter Roelstraete curated the show Everybody Talks About the Weather at Fondazione Prada in Venice
Art versus gentrification in Queens, New York: Malikah exhibition at MoMA PS1
With rents rising 34% in a year, Malikah works to preserve Little Egypt identity against gentrification. Keeping the dual identity of immigrants intact. The exhibition at MoMA PS1
Humans are still at the center of everything – Before the Storm, Pinault Collection
Deconstructing the Western gaze: a post-naturalist aesthetic, the climate crisis - less a transformation than the visible manifestation. Before the Storm, Pinault Collection
Solitude and sexual innuendo: Georgia O’Keeffe’s paper drawings
77 years later, the NYC MoMA is hosting its second retrospective of Georgia O'Keeffe. Curator Samantha Friedman introduces the Mother of American modernism and her paper works
Pol Taburet in the mind’s abyss – stages of trauma and occultism
Silent dramaturgies mix the symbolism of European painting with American rap, contemporary subcultures, and Afro-Creole quimbois. Pol Taburet at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris
Marcin Dudek – unfolding personal memories and identities as political spaces
Neoplan, the sixth Marcin Dudek’s exhibition at Edel Assanti in London – an autobiographical journey within the context of hooliganism, memory, and personal recollection
Queering, not finding answers: The Current III and the closing of a cycle at Ocean Space
Ocean Space 2023 program unfolded: a platform for inter-trans-cross-disciplinaries discourse. Simone Fattal and Petrit Halilaj & Álvaro Urbano use art to question and protest
De Angelis Testa family for Ca’ Pesaro: the biggest art donation since 1960
From artworks by Robert Rauschenberg, Mario Merz, Michelangelo Pistoletto to Marina Abramović. De Angelis Testa donation to Ca’ Pesaro and how public and private can come together
Siamo Foresta: path in Triennale Milano, Luiz Zerbini brought trees into a room
A tree-lined path conceived by Luiz Zerbini and a forest within the museum walls: an exhibition by Triennale di Milano and Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
Green is burning: Andriu Deplazes’ first Italian solo show at Collezione Maramotti
When something is burning it recalls us that «we are closer to the actual war that is happening now than we think we are», explains Deplazes about his exhibition
Consumerist culture attempts to turn humans into commodities. Filip Custic
As a former marketing student, Filip Custic questions the risks of capitalist culture, which argues that existence is more valuable if it can be monetized
Ordering the chaos – Gina Soden: the layers of our relationship with ruins
Architectural photography – In her photographic love letters to architecture, the British artist Soden captures the beauty of forgotten spaces across Europe
Kiko Kostadinov and his take on Kazuhide Takahama for MDW
Though it’s not his first attempt at interior design, «the challenging part was working with pre-existing timeless pieces», said Kiko Kostadinov to Lampoon
Met Gala’s homage to Karl Lagerfeld. Why do we insist on creating idols?
A last bow to the designer who impacted contemporary aesthetics and pioneered the creative director part – Karl Lagerfeld at the Met Gala reduced to a cliché
British curator Ben Broome: «Performances have the power to disrupt gallery spaces»
Art curator Ben Broome, interviewed by Lampoon, discusses his pathway to exhibition making, his passion for performances and unanswered questions
NM3 – contemporary modernism: raw materials, geometric rigor and functionality
Milan Design Week 2023 - the Milan-based studio presents Sistema, a collection of lamps designed in collaboration with 6:AM Glassworks
The grandeur of the architecture and the encounter with Aperçues by Nina Carini
The site-specific exhibition designed by the artist dialogues with the sacredness and silence of the space of the Basilica di San Celso in Milan
Regards Vénitiens: the exploited city seen with a reverse glaze. Nikos Aliagas
Fondazione dell'Albero d'Oro hosts an exhibition by the Greek-French photographer Nikos Aliagas. Venice seen from the outside is all about respect and contamination
The carefreeness of childhood collides with adult reality in Luca Staccioli’s exhibition
ArtNoble Gallery presents Luca Staccioli's exhibition WAKE-UP CALL, an intimate reflection on the meaning of childhood in relation to the socio-cultural environment that surrounds us
MIA Photo Fair 2023 – the last edition with the founder Fabio Castelli as Director in Milan
«The organizational machine of Fiere di Parma will dive deeper into MIA fair’s reality, realizing improvements to evolve it on an international scale» – Founder and Director of MIA, Fabio...
March 8th – Feminist Surrealism and the art of repurposing: Meret Oppenheim
The exhibition on the Swiss surrealist artist concludes at New York's MoMA. An exhibition that restores dignity to a central female figure in the artistic scene of the twentieth century
Psychedelic, hypnotic: the all-consuming screens of Yuri Ancarani’s Atlantide 2017-2023
In conversation with Italian video-maker Yuri Ancarani, as he navigates modern-day Venice, the push and pull relationship with nature, and loneliness
Cityscapes and empty bleach bottles; Hicham Gardaf, In Praise of Slowness
In conversation with award-winning Moroccan contemporary photographer Hicham Gardaf, whose eyes examine the transformations of social spaces
Mapping the Anthropocene, Synchrodogs’ art is an example of eco-art
The Ukrainian artistic duo Synchrodogs talks about the tension between humanity and nature halfway between reality and sleep life to raise climate crisis awareness
Officina Magisafi. Designing timeless solutions – from traditional handcraft and local know-how
Architect Debora Bordogni and designer Claudio Acquaviva found in Val Seriana the perfect ecosystem for their design studio where methodology and research hold sway
Olafur Eliasson’s Trembling Horizons – to reconsider our relationship with space
The third Eliasson’s exhibition at Castello di Rivoli stems from the desire to intercept the Scandinavian interest in ecology and environmental sustainability by creating an ongoing dialogue with nature
