He didn't train as a photographer. He sat in on campaign shoots for a sportswear brand until the lens claimed him. Now based near Milan, Fabio Bottiroli makes images built on collaboration, preparation, and a stubborn refusal to let quantity win over quality. In an age of content overload, that's its own form of radicalism.

Most of his icons are dead. He's lived in San Francisco, Berlin, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and now a small town at the northern tip of Bavaria — and through all of it, he's been in the studio. Kottie Paloma makes paintings that function like fossils: gritty, humorous, archetypal records of what it means to be alive right now. We spoke with him about process, the art world's secondary market madness, and why the Pink Panther is quietly becoming one of his heroes.

She buried a bed sheet in Los Angeles soil for eight months. She bleaches fabric until it finds its own pattern. She works in a former clothing factory in small-town Germany — and makes work about decay, the universe, and everything in between. Meike Legler in conversation

He found refuge in art. Now photographer Mondher Mejri — Tunis to Lyon, shaped by a feminist mother and a painter uncle — invites you to go beyond appearances. A conversation about music as an image stimulator, 360° artists, and why anyone who puts themselves forward is already making a difference.