six decades of irving penn’s fashion photography are now on view in paris

in this chapter, we journeyed from underground nightclubs to cinematic illusions, wearable architectures, and sculptural mirrors, exploring how spectacle can challenge our perceptions and experience…

the british furniture brand gives old pieces a new lease of life through a circular initiative and a chair built to last. belen afonso October 21, 2026 4 min prefer designboom on googleBoss Design’s The Loop revives discarded furnitureWhen planning a space, Boss Design knows that an interior design studio considers more than its architectural characteristics. The furniture used to populate that room is as much a part of the design as the walls surrounding it. Yet we often encounter the dilemma of interior designs that systematically discard existing pieces to create a space better suited to current needs. Whether due to natural wear from use or changes in furniture trends or personal tastes, hundreds of recoverable pieces are discarded every year in favor of new furniture. This behavior generates a carbon footprint that is both significant and avoidable.renewing the upholstery all images courtesy of Boss DesignBoss chooses most effective way to protect environmentToday’s society expresses its interest in protecting the planet through the way it consumes.

From Roman-era political potboilers to stories of Catholic priests struggling to impose their authority, what could the reading list of vice-president JD Vance’s wife be trying to tell us? Usha…

Self-aware romp through the genre is redolent of the 90s but its ghost-masked killer is as alarming as ever The 30th anniversary re-release of the original Scream, from screenwriter Kevin Williamson…

A diatribe against AI-generated art writing, MIT professors bedazzle security cameras, and Art Basel Paris goes into lockdown. It’s not just a problem. It’s a travesty. AI in art writing, I mean — and if those words made you instinctively cringe, then you get it, because that “It’s not X, it’s Y” sentence construction is just one of the many hallmarks of artificially generated writing. Speaking as an editor, come on. We can tell. And we will judge, and let you know exactly how we feel about it. We might even write a diatribe against it, as Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia does today in a piece that is incisive, understanding, and original — a chatbot could never.  An opinion piece is one way to rail against the corporate-technological surveillance complex. Bedazzling security cameras is another, perhaps less orthodox, method. That’s right: Tenured professors at MIT are gluing googly eyes and rhinestones onto the university’s cameras, Staff Writer Anna Lee reports today, to protest its investment in Big Brother. Sigh.

In Toronto, Caviar20 follow Iskowitz’s transformation from figurative painter processing Holocaust trauma to pioneer of Canadian abstraction in new career-spanning retrospective.