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Humanities, Lampoon Issue 26

Linder: the ultimate recycler of pornographic imagery can date 20th century magazines by smell

Armed with a surgeon’s scalpel, Linder Sterling cuts away at imagery from Playboy and other magazines to create visual narratives exploring the body and mind of feminism

Aarushi Saxena

Tel Aviv

Hotel Montefiore, Tel Aviv. A century-old building repurposed for hospitality

A boutique hotel dating back to the twentieth century exudes the ethos of a bygone Saigon from every pore

Sahadev Chhetri

Cartier, High Jewelry

Maria Felix, Cartier, the crocodiles: shall we still understand an aesthetic delirium?

The complexity of a narration between Paris and Mexico,reviewing the twentieth century: notes on aesthetics during a visit to the Cartier exhibition in Mexico City

Carlo Mazzoni

Exhibitions, New York

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

Ana Tess

the art field, Venice

Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana, Venice: a 2023 of art and events on the Grand Canal

Chronorama, a show dedicated to Twentieth century photography, and Icônes, a collective exhibition featuring works of the Pinault Collection that develop the theme of spirituality – in conversation with Mauro Baronchelli, operative director

Debora Vitulano

Humanities

Understanding the present day using the scientific discoveries of the past: Benjamin Labatut

Benjamin Labatut discusses why he believes we have ceased to understand the world and what twentieth century scientists can still teach us

Grace Duncan

Lampoon Issue 22

Roof gardens – returning what architecture has taken from the land

Le Corbusier is just one of the architects and urban planners of the twentieth century who measured themselves on the theme of the roof and hanging garden

Cesare Cunaccia

Lampoon Issue 17, the art field

Koloman Moser – An experimental station of the end of the world

Karl Kraus thus baptizes the melting pot of art, thought and innovation in Vienna between the end of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth century

Cesare Cunaccia

Lampoon Issue 29

Hot tubes: Italian Design masters

Bourgeois-interior in a series of hidden spaces designed by Italian masters for Lampoon: Franco Albini, Gianfranco Frattini, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Cini Boeri, Claudio Salocchi, Nanda Vigo

Cesare Cunaccia

Collections

Deciphering the myth that is the Big Four

Chronicles from NYFW and LFW – why are we still holding on to an old idea to recreate something new? This might be the time to rethink the old tradition of what fashion weeks look like

Oliver Dahle

Athens

Mona, Athens: slow living, industrial heritage and a view on the Acropolis

Entrepreneur Shai Antebi and Creative Director Eftihia Stefanidi conceived Mona as «a homage to the art of living». Furniture, textiles and design objects crafted from industrial waste materials, walls revealing the passing of time

Editorial Team

Humanities

The Role of Black – in fashion and human history

More than just a color – exploring the intersection of fashion, culture, and humanities by tracing attraction of black in the tapestry of western fashion history

Roberta Fabbrocino

The Publishing Industry

When real life can be extraordinary, why Dream About Nothing?

Nature and artifice, beauty and roughness – reality according to the photographer Bobby Doherty. The hallucinatory imagery and still life photography of his latest book Dream About Nothing

Agnese Torres

hemp

What is a purpose-driven economy? Definition, meaning of each contemporary work

Running a business means giving profit to the owner and workers, as well as the community and the area where the business grows: purpose economy is a successful strategy for 2024

Carlo Mazzoni

Lampoon issue 28

The evolution of work in art: human body is a brain, the hand a learning tool

What does working on art mean nowadays? Artists and creators as social actors in evolution – from Plato until the robots today, in conversation with curators Giulia Piscitelli Pier Paolo Pancotto Daniel Knorr

Cesare Cunaccia

Milan

El Porteño Prohibido: tango, malambo, malabares and Argentinian asado in Milan

Debora Vitulano

Reportage

Bed bug panic in Paris – Internet psychosis or actual crisis?

The Internet cultural humor surrounding the bed bugs in Paris grows from the contrast between the glossy, picture-perfect idea of Paris and the reality of living and working in a complex city

Roberta Fabbrocino

Lugano

Swans, lindens, and horse chestnuts: nature taking over the streets of Lugano in fall

From Renaissance church Santa Maria degli Angioli to the LAC and MASI contemporary art exhibitions: if you walk around Lugano you can stop to chat with the swans

Debora Vitulano

Milan

BookCity Milano 2023: from Orhan Pamuk to a delegation of French cartoonists

With Nobel Prize in Literature Orhan Pamuk for the opening event and a delegation of French cartoonists from Angoulême, BookCity Milano 2023 wants to be a ‘dreamlike’ experience

Editorial Team

Rome

Hotel d’Inghilterra in Rome is currently undergoing a renovation process

The logo was inspired by the British kingdom – a blazon supported by a lion and a unicorn, like the coat of arms of the Windsor dynasty Massimo Colli on how an ancient palace in Rome become tech-efficient

Debora Vitulano

architecture

Human body has no angles. Maison Bernard, Théoule-sur-Mer: the organic, human-centric bubble house

In 2013, Maison Bernard became an endowment fund whose purposes are the protection and the perennity of Antti Lovag’s architectural work with Pierre Bernard and also a residence for artists

Alessia Tu

Humanities

Your obsession over non-Western cultures is not appreciation. It’s fetishization

The origin of Eurocentric superiority of costume dates back to Social Darwinism and the idea of the West and the Rest. How is the fashion industry intended to move forward from that?

Martina Tondo

Berlin

Heroines of Sound: microtonality, noise, and drones on an all-female artists’ stage

In ten years, Heroines of Sound has presented over 150 female or non-binary artists, in a dialogue between contemporaneity and ‘heroines’ of the electronic music scene

Debora Vitulano

Exhibitions

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

Matilde Moro

Tuscany

How the Medici’s Villa became Fonteverde Resort: San Casciano dei Bagni, Tuscany

Fonteverde is a resort located in the Sienese countryside, where Etruscan thermal baths combine with holistic rituals and modern science in a Renaissance villa

Debora Vitulano

basel

Diverse Perspectives at Art Basel 2023: Kabinett, Parcours, Film

Conversations at Art Basel 2023: Care, Collectivity, and Connectivity Explored by Leading Cultural Figures in Panels

Debora Vitulano

liguria

From historical grandeur to contemporary art: Grand Hotel Miramare’s journey

Preserving tradition, embracing innovation: Grand Hotel Miramare’s journey as it continues to evolve in the Modern Era after 120 years of activity

Anna Polgrossi

New York

1-54 presents in New York, Sparkling Islands: Another Postcard of the Caribbean

With a multidisciplinary exhibition 1-54 and Caryl Ivrisse Crochemar aim to portray the cultural, ethnic, and artistic diversity of the Caribbean archipelago

Debora Vitulano

Humanities, Lampoon issue 27

Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Dan Rubinstein for Lampoon Issue 27 – manipulation of perspective

For Lampoon Issue 27, The RuVido Issue, Photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Dan Rubinstein reflect on looking at bodies in a non-white way, queer representation and the meaning of raw

Editorial Team

Mexico City, the art field

Mexico’s cherished artists: Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo

Commissioned by the couple from the architect Juan O’Gorman in 1931, Diego RIvera and Frida Kahlo lived in the estate until 1934

Cristian Tonea

architecture, Mexico City

The Wild Oscar, located in the Beverly Hills of Mexico, Polanco – for the business traveler

In the morning the sun stays behind because the facade faces west, and the coolness of the Polanco tree foliage is mixed with the wind of the Mexican plateau

Editorial Team

Humanities, the art field

Nonsense saved me: interview to Simon Fujiwara on his latest show in Milan

The creator of Who the Bær: «I created a cartoon character in order not to become one myself». In Milan, the exhibition Who is Who-Dimensional? at Gió Marconi

Federico Jonathan Cusin

Cartier, Lampoon issue 27

Nothing is gendered anymore, for the sake of good design: Cartier Libre

Marie-Laure Cérède, Creative Director of Jewelry & Watchmaking and Pierre Rainero, Director of Heritage, Image and converse with Carlo Mazzoni, Editor in Chief, for Lampoon Issue 27

Carlo Mazzoni

hotel, Verona

After the opening in Como in 2018, VISTA Palazzo arrives in the Verona city center

A few minutes of walk away from the Juliet balcony and the Renaissance Giardini Giusti, in the Verona city center, arises the boutique hotel part of the Lario Group – VISTA Palazzo

Anna Polgrossi

Brussels, the art field

A conversation with Nele Verhaeren, managing director of Art Brussels

For the second year, Art Brussels supports the KickCancer foundation – all proceeds from the sales will be donated to the foundation for research in order to beat childhood cancer

Mariangela Peci

Milan, the art field

ABC-ARTE inaugurates ONE OF, a window on Avant-garde art in the city of Milano

The name ONE OF indicates the plurality of experiences: a series of projects connected with the initiatives in Genoa city, according to Antonio Borghese, Director

Martina Tondo

hemp, naturally sourced, textile fibers

Prototipo Studio – provoking Italian manufacturing as much as you can

Italian, natural, plant-based supply chain – from farm field to weaving: the transparency of Made in Italy that wants to be not just a label, but a value

Carlo Mazzoni

architecture, palermo

Grand Hotel et Des Palmes, Palermo. A Sicilian story, with English roots

Two years of renovation bears the signature of Giuseppe Corvaia – Grand Hotel et Des Palmes gives back to the city, recovering Ernesto Basile’s Art Nouveau interventions but stepping into the contemporary

Matteo Mammoli

Humanities, the art field

Controversial, Shakespearean: Sonia Boyce wants the public to talk, reflect and react

In conversation with award-winning British artist Sonia Boyce, as she navigates through Black British history and its relationship to the present day

Glesni Trefor Williams

Bologna, the art field

Bologna Arte Fiera: the new route with Artistic Director Simone Menegoi

For the first ever, the decision to appoint a collector as Managing Director; the next edition will be the result of a collaboration with the Furla Foundation

Martina Tondo

Milan, Photography

Galleria Sozzani, Max Vadukul, The Witness: Climate Change – the planet will survive but humankind will not

«There can be creativity in artistic reportage that tells the truth without manipulation if it is done with feeling and instinct»

Genevieve Verdigel

Lampoon issue 23, the art field

The Hyman Foundation, London: presenting the Centre for British Photography

Founded by James and Claire Hyman, The Hyman Foundation is adding an addition to their roster that champions British photography – The Centre for British Photography

Eugenia Pacelli

Perfumery

Carthusia, Capri. What does the most beautiful place in the world smell like?

Those who land on the island are dazzled by the light and surprised by the orography – but it is the perfumes that get you drunk. Carthusia fragrances encapsulate the essence of Capri

Matteo Mammoli

Humanities, Lampoon Issue 26

Michelangelo Pistoletto and Otobong Nkanga on the new responsibility of art

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev in conversation with Michelangelo Pistoletto and Otobong Nkanga on the need to put art back at the center through a synergic cooperation with science and technology

Agnese Torres

London

PAD London: «Why is there such an obsession with plastic?» Fernando Laposse asks

Fernando Laposse uses plant fibers native to Mexico, such as sisal, loofah and corn husks working in a closed loop system

Angel Harvey-Ideozu

Mexico

Casa Bosques, Mexico City: What the digital era cannot offer, is to be found here

Display publications of multi-disciplinary genres. The process they use is the opposite from how the internet works: leaving space for researchers

Elizabeth Germana Arthur

Exhibitions, Humanities

Humanism, individualism and feminism in the spectrum of portrait painting by Alice Neel

Alice Neel’s candid portraits of American society shines light upon those who are underrepresented, impoverished, overlooked, flamboyant and unapologetic

Aybuke Barkcin

call to action, crafting

As Do-it-yourself advances, could consumerism recede? DIY trends

In conversation with trend forecasters Anna Maroncelli and Harleen Sabharwal on exploring the antidote to consumerism

Aarushi Saxena

oregon, The Publishing Industry

Monograph Bookwerks, Oregon: a bookstore and an archive hub research project

John Brodie and Blair Saxon-Hill opened Monograph Bookwerks in 2010 for people to study, explore and purchase books about art, politics and theory

Veronica Gisondi

Milan

Kasa Dei Libri, Milan. Inside Andrea Kerbaker’s headquarters

A house with thirty thousand books: a Montale from the Florence flood, a first edition of Les Misérables – «one bookseller thought it was counterfeit». The quirks of a collector: Andrea Kerbaker

Marta Mazzacano