Italian content creator, model, real estate investor, author and future president of Italy Amedeo Iasci on 20 million monthly views, his Vespa in Washington D.C., getting his wallet violated by the restaurant industry, and why authenticity is the only strategy that works.

There is a moment, if you have ever stood in front of Laila Gohar's work, when you forget entirely that what you are looking at was made to be eaten. But the story of food art is older, stranger, and far more serious than any single moment of cultural virality can contain. From Roman frescoes to Daniel Spoerri's Eat Art movement to butter sculpted into fragments recalling ancient Greek marble — food has always been a carrier of meaning. Labor and land, culture and class, memory and desire, compressed into something you hold in your hand. This is a cultural essay about what happens when the most basic human material asks the questions the cameras do not know how to frame.

Growing up without role models can make it difficult to dream. Citlali Fabián's response was to create them — through collaboration, through portraiture, through embroidery stitched into photographs by her grandmother's hands. Named Photographer of the Year at the Sony World Photography Awards 2026, she is exactly the kind of artist this recognition was made for.

London's most storied jazz club transforms its hidden upstairs space into "the greatest small live music venue in the world".

A former punk musician turned sonic architect. Three performances in a church — one with a double bassist, one with the full Detect Ensemble, one bridging into AFAR's live set. Acid Pauli at Detect Classic Festival 2025 was something rare: music born in the moment and cherished just as fleetingly.