Valparaíso’s free trades gathering challenges luxury craft: can premium commissions
Studio Saar’s Pangolin Shield at London Design Festival asks whether
Drift and Shigeru Ban’s illuminated towers pose a hard question: can a drone memorial honour individual lives without turning grief into spectacle?
A £900-per-square-metre exhibition quote exposes design’s access problem. Can London’s grassroots platforms change who gets seen—and who pays?
Omar Degan’s Pan-African Biennale 2026 challenges national narratives. But who defines African modernity—and who gets left outside the conversation?
Homo Faber in Venice makes craft a radical answer to AI. But can hand-making shape the future without becoming an elite luxury?
The cancelled John Galliano exhibition raises a harder question: can museums preserve difficult legacies without turning context into endorsement?
As America turns 250, design becomes a battleground over who belongs, who speaks, and whether a shared symbol still exists.
Taipei’s drone exhibition turns the skyline into a temporary civic screen—wonder, commerce, airspace, and urban memory collide.
Sophie Ebrard frames bullfighting as evidence and complicity, forcing photography to confront ritual, violence, and moral spectatorship.