Fifty-Three Septembers Later
The room Nairobi's newest Pan-African architecture biennale just opened in was designed by a Norwegian, launched by hosting the World Bank, and — per the Kenyan architect who co-signed it — shaped like a donkey's penis.
What Does It Mean Anymore?
In 2000, Louis Vuitton told Supreme to burn the skate decks wearing its monogram. Seventeen years later Vuitton put Supreme's own box logo on its trunks — and streetwear's new 20-year oral history can't stop circling back to it.
Peel Slowly and Eat
A dollar sticker puts Warhol's face back on a banana, one year after somebody paid $6.2 million to eat the same joke on camera.
Business Class
Hella Jongerius spent a career warning designers not to become merchants. Vitra's own museum just named the room about her corporate work exactly that.
Raw Animalistic Energy
The drum fill from Phil Collins' bleakest song is being sold back to us again, 45 years later, under a title that finally admits what it's for.
