HOKA and Beams have known each other for years. For the retailer's fiftieth anniversarythey took the Bondi 7 somewhere quieter. Thomas Cykana and Travis Wiseman talk through the shoe in Paris.

Pacha's walls still remember the night Jamie xx and Solomun traded rhythms until sunrise, one playful and open, the other deep and relentless, together rewriting what a b2b can sound like.

Nearly three years in the making, REBEL RAMEN landed in Paris with a cart drawn by Willo Perron, a sound system built by Matéo Garcia, and two bowls that argue for restraint and excess in equal measure.

Creative director, publisher, and self-taught researcher, Roberto Rigon has spent years turning technology's blind spots into print. He reflects on data, democracy, and the value of thinking in decades.

Sixty years of ceramic culture arrive in Paris. Refin Studio, the brand's first French space, gives architects and designers a place to study surfaces, compare ideas and build considered, lasting projects.

William Victorino builds sculpture from the wreckage of painting. Trained under Claude Rutault's radical protocols and years of Beaux-Arts drawing, the French Brazilian artist turns raw wood into frames the public can walk through, touch, and reassemble on their own terms.

For SS27, Arashi Yanagawa built a collection around Bettina Rheims's Modern Lovers, letting masculinity and femininity sit unresolved. Shibari-inspired lacing meets sheer fabric and reptile-look materials, restraint and softness worn on the same body.

Fredrik Paulsen learned to read the world through skateboarding long before he learned to design for it. This month he brings that back to Helsinki, with a chair made for Vauhtikisat, built to be ridden, not admired.

Barragán staged SS30 inside Berlin's Mexican Embassy, a brutalist monument by Teodoro González de León, where identity became a matter of paperwork, uniforms, and light bent through corridors in tribute to Luis Barragán.

In Federico Hurth's photography, precision and risk are inseparable. His latest project, Sourland, focuses on the aftermath of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires in 84 analog photographs.

Nordic midsummer has always been a negotiation with light: how long can you hold it, how much can the body take before sleep wins. At Ruka, Kuusamo, Solstice Festival removes the question entirely. The sun does not set. The fell rises above the treeline. The reindeer cross when they want. You adjust.

To claim that intuition is methodology is to strip it of romance and position it where it truly belongs: as rigorous epistemic practice. Vincent Laine treats the inner voice not as a muse but as disciplined intelligence.

(Future) Paradise Gardens. The tenth edition of Biennale Gherdëina inaugurates in the heart of the Dolomites as a diffuse event running until 13 September.

The exhibition Dal sonno by Nicola Maria Patitucci, hosted by Cane Studio, examines the perception and implications of the unconscious, converting the dream state into an intimate and unsettling visual journey.

At SOLO CSV in Madrid, a new exhibition space has inaugurated: Basement, with works by Cezar Mocan, artist and programmer winner of SOLO AI ‘25 Award, on the limits of data technologies.

British photographer Ed Aked discusses I RAGAZZI, launched at Oddity Paris, a photobook that explores masculinity, belonging, ritual, and collective identity through the charged atmosphere of Siena's Palio.

In its 11th edition, Amsterdam-based FIBER Festival made this tension its focus of inquiry through its theme, Fragile Forces.

Eva & Franco Mattes bring their hilarious yet terrifying web critiques to Venice with RAGE BAIT, showing how algorithms happily harvest our daily internet anger for pure profit.

3 Days of Design made one thing clear: material honesty now sits at the center of the conversation. Across pavilions and showrooms, craft, circularity and natural materials shaped the strongest work on view, proof that sustainability and quality are no longer separate considerations.

Helsinki in late May: five days of shows, ateliers, studios and one awards night, where a young generation of Finnish designers proved that craftsmanship and innovation can move in the same direction. COEVAL was there to see it.

‘The Silence of the Mole’ reimagines a folkloric icon as a Marxist underdog. The film investigates the Kafkaesque machinery of national representation at the Biennale, where muted instruments signal a refusal to serve cultural diplomacy and statecraft. 

On the occasion of the release of Hotel Infinito, the new album by Missing Ear, we spoke with the Milan-based experimental drummer and sound designer about the project and his collaboration with multimedia and visual artist Alessandra Leone, who will be his partner in the upcoming live show.

The God-Inhabited Body and the Theatrical DJ. An interview with dancer Siko Setyanto and choreographer Tianzhuo Chen. Moyang 先祖 & Seaman 漁師. Venice, may 2026, We Travel To Know Our Own Geography, performances curated by KUBORAUM. 

Artist Rabin Huissen records accounts of the human form as it is conditioned by its physical gestures, the surroundings in which these are acted, and the everyday conditions that quietly regulate lived experience.

Before ‘Find Your Friends’ was a film, it was a night Izabel Pakzad could not forget: a dead-end street, a green Mustang, and a ten-minute car chase with no phone signal and no way out.

Mat Dryhurst makes software the way others make manifestos. Curated alongside Holly Herndon, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Adriana Rispoli, his Attention Guild installation at Palazzo Diedo is the clearest version yet of what he calls protocol art: a parliament of humans and agents, and a gift economy that runs.

Joan Horrach moved from ballet to Bruce Nauman, and the distance turned out to be short. The Palma-born artist makes work where the body is both subject and instrument, and where ‘the act of waiting’ proves to be the hardest act of all.

Daryan Knoblauch is outlining a blueprint for architecture in flux, where form is not fixed, and cultural, technological, and environmental change is inevitable within the systems we currently inhabit.