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WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE WORK: SPIKE MAGAZINE & SALZBURGER KUNSTVEREIN

"...Amid this sprawl of references, Mangione’s presence, still hot in the cycle of TikToks and TV news segments, feels like temporal whiplash. Just weeks earlier, the fashion Instagram account, Diet Prada, made a post to their nearly 3.5 million followers calling his trial outfit, “very Prada Spring 2013–coded!” It referenced his crimson red sweater, slacks, and sockless loafers, which do in fact hold a close resemblance to the Milanese fashion house’s earlier runway look. Through viral posts and online discourse, Mangione’s identity has expanded beyond that of political dissident; he’s become a fashion icon, a meme, a media spectacle. And now here he is, center stage in Sobczak’s painting, in a cape torn from Clark Kent mid-flight, colored in a red recalling his courtroom sweater. Still shackled by chains on wrists and ankles, he somehow defies their restraint – possibly with the bulging muscles that show from under his tattered rags.."

NOVEMBRE: Movie Magic: "A Kind of Language" at Fondazione Prada

"In A Kind of Language, early storyboards from Terry Gilliam's similarly journalistic adventure Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas are drawn in the same bulging perspective that has become iconic of Hunter S. Thompson's odyssey through the desert. While I lack the stamina or tolerance to step into the shoes of Raoul Duke or Dr. Gonzo, I do find it flattering how, on the silver screen, journalism is granted such multitudes and sex appeal. What a waste of budget it would have been to show Johnny Depp hunched over, line-editing his work. Through the beautifying lens of film, work can — and should — be psychedelic, an adventure, a perversion of its very banality...."

AnOther: On Cinema and Design: Luca Guadagnino & Stefano Baisi in Conversation

In Luca Guadagnino’s cancel-culture drama After the Hunt, Julia Roberts plays an Ivy League professor forced to reckon with secrets from her past when a colleague is accused of sexual assault. “It happened at Yale,” runs the first line from the film, but in reality, Guadagnino staged the action on a meticulously recreated version of New Haven built by his longtime collaborator, Stefano Baisi, at London’s Shepperton Studios. Baisi joined the director’s interior architecture firm, Studio Luca Guadagnino, in 2017 as an architect, and later transitioned into production design when Guadagnino enlisted him for Queer, his first cinematic project.

Luca Guadagnino and Stefano Baisi on set of After the HuntCourtesy of Amazon MGM Studios

LAMPOON: Chinese Espresso: how migration from China changed the face of Italian bars

"In conversation with Grazia Ting Deng, author of Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy

In Milan, if you go to a pasticceria in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, customers will undoubtably be greeted by an Italian hostess waiting, not only to bring them a brioche, but to give them a taste of the dolce vita. But go to a bar in Porta Venezia’s queer neighborhood, pay bills at a local tobacco shop, or find the one bar in Milan that still sells a five euro spritz in 2025 and the truth of a more complex, racially-diverse Italy rears its head."

FROM AnOther

On Cinema and Design: Luca Guadagnino & Stefano Baisi in Conversation

FROM ÉMERGENT

Sueño Perro | Alejandro G. Iñárritu at Fondazione Prada

FROM IMPULSE

FROM LAMPOON

FROM NOVEMBRE

FROM NR MAGAZINE

Mesura and architecture that returns to genius loci

From prototyping in France to wooden structures in Jakarta, ciguë’s practice embodies a growing world

Meriem Bennani: For My Best Family: An interview with the artists @ Fondazione Prada, Milano

FROM L'ESSENZIALE

Anodised Wicker and Creating Tensions: Tino Seubert

FROM FRENCH FRIES

The Ribbon Drawn Across Bridges: An Interview with Curator Marta Papini