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Ya-Wen Chang
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Ben Quilty's NYC Debut "Devil/God": Turning Cars Into Phallic Idols, Stitching the Virgin Mary Into Corporal Punishment Leather
Australian painter Ben Quilty will present his solo exhibition "Devil/God" at albertz benda in New York, using thickly layered oil paintings and sculpture to confront masculine idolatry, religious power, and ecological collapse. The show opens October 15, 2026.
Met Museum Displays Oldest Surviving Fragment of the Odyssey, Papyrus Reveals Three Lost Lines
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put the oldest surviving Ptolemaic-era papyrus fragment of the Odyssey back on display in Gallery 162. Dating to roughly 285–250 BCE Egypt, the ancient artifact contains three lines of verse not found in today's standard text.
SATISFY x COROS APEX 4: Reorganizing a Trail Running Watch's Data Into Three Ways of Reading It
SATISFY has teamed up with COROS on the flagship trail running watch APEX 4. Rather than touching the hardware specs, the collab reworks three dedicated watch faces and adds two swappable straps, letting the same training data be read in a whole new way.
YouTube Public View Counts Set to Jump Across the Board — But Creator Payout Threshold Runs on a Different Algorithm
Starting August 24, YouTube will change how public view counts are calculated — a video will count as "viewed" the moment it starts playing. But creator earnings will still be calculated using the original Engaged Views standard, meaning the two sets of numbers will now clearly diverge.
Thailand Forest Resort Launches "Reader in Residence": Bring a Book, Get 4 Days 3 Nights Free Stay
Writers get residencies to write books, so when do readers get the chance to actually finish one? Thailand's Kanchanaburi forest resort PRY1 is now accepting applications for a reader residency—four days, three nights, all food and lodging included, plus a 2,000 baht dining credit.
Cadillac V-One: A Concept Car Wearing a Race Car's Bones, Waiting for a Buyer
This single-seat concept, finished in a silver-to-deep-blue gradient paint, borrows its skeleton almost entirely from the Le Mans-conquering Cadillac V-Series.R. It's not a flight of fancy—it's a design experiment built around one rule: you don't mess with the proportions.
Mike Ashley Bought a 200-Year-Old Institution for the Price of a Sports Car — Can He Actually Save Harvey Nichols This Time?
Frasers Group snapped up Harvey Nichols from administrators for €46 million, but the buyer's track record with Matches Fashion and Flannels makes this deal look more like a gamble than a rescue.
Only 22 Pounds Heavier With the Roof Off: Czinger 21C Spyder Goes Topless Without Losing Downforce
Czinger unveiled its first convertible supercar, the 21C Spyder, at Monterey Car Week — 1,250 horsepower, 0-60 mph in 1.9 seconds, only 30 units worldwide, starting at $2.75 million.
Porsche Scraps Leipzig Relocation Plan, Taycan Reportedly Set to End Production in 2030 at Original Plant
German outlet WirtschaftsWoche reports that Porsche has reached a preliminary agreement with its works council to discontinue the Taycan, scrapping plans to relocate production to Leipzig. Instead, the model will continue being built at the original Zuffenhausen plant until production wraps in 2030.
Porsche Relearns the Art of the Shift: 911 Carrera S Gets Manual Gearbox Back, and a Rear-Window Sticker Says It All
Bowing to buyer demand, Porsche is bringing back the six-speed manual transmission option for the 2027 911 Carrera S. For about $13,000 more, you get a walnut shift knob, titanium exhaust tips, and a lineup that now stretches to seven manual-equipped 911 variants.
LV's Rare Co-Branded Collab: Two Singer Porsche 911s, Each Built Around a Director's Obsession
For the first time, Louis Vuitton co-brands a finished product with another label, teaming up with Singer Vehicle Design to rebuild two 964-generation 911s—one for watch director Jean Arnault, one for artistic director Nicolas Ghesquière.
Same Mastiha Spirit, Two Very Different Answers from Two Taipei Bars
Greek brand Skinos Mastiha Spirit teams up with Testing Room and The Public House — one deconstructs the spirit like a perfume, reworking classic cocktails; the other grafts Chios terroir onto Taiwanese tea and fruit. Eight limited-edition cocktails, all August long.
Frank Kunert Pulled the Tiny People Out of His Models — And That's When the Architecture Started Lying
German photographer Frank Kunert hand-builds his scenes at scales from 1:12 to 1:43, but early on he made a call to strip out the figurines — letting a staircase, or an apartment wedged under an overpass, tell the story on its own.
This Hokkaido House Was Designed as One Giant Window Into the Forest
Architect Yosuke Tomiya's Morimado House in Hokkaido — its name literally translating to "forest window" — uses split-level circulation and an arched opening to turn the backyard forest into scenery you can't help but run into every day.
Old Clothes, Steel Cage, No Glue: A Fashion-Trained Architect "Welds" Building Material With a Hacked 3D Printer
Taylor Leung swapped a 3D printer's extruder for five heated metal needles, using no adhesive at all to melt down fast fashion's discarded polyester garments into a porous material—then turned it into chairs, walls, columns, and eventually a full-scale shed.
Bhoon+ House in Bangkok: A Roof That Bends to Let a Shared Tree Grow Through
anonym studio builds a new home on a 376-square-meter former lawn in Bangkok, carving a notch into the roof to let a courtyard tree grow right through the structure—while keeping a visual connection to the original house next door.
Confirmation Email in Hand, YouTuber Still Turned Away at Amanvari — Cops Called on Him Too
Security couldn't find his reservation and called in the police to intercept his car — only afterward did he discover a late-night email from the hotel cutting back guest numbers. Walker points out the resort's website was still selling rooms as usual, suggesting independent reviewers may be getting selectively denied entry.
Jil Sander Wraps Thonet's Tubular Steel Frames in One Silent Slab of Leather
The JS. THONET collection expands with the S 411 armchair and S 1070 table, as Jil Sander uses unbroken leather panels and minimal seaming to make this 1932 Bauhaus tubular steel structure look like a floating sculpture.
Midnight Club 5 Had a London Map Ready—Then Got Killed as Rockstar's "Red-Headed Stepchild"
A former Rockstar San Diego designer reveals that the racing series outlasted Need for Speed in playtime, but its London map was scrapped for good after it couldn't match GTA-level sales numbers.
Rolex's Market Share Cools from 44% to 30.5% — Young Buyers Are Shifting to the Datejust
Chrono24's latest report shows Rolex's share of platform sales has dropped from its 2022 peak of 44% to 30.5%. But the real story isn't the decline — it's where young buyers are putting their money instead: not the once-unobtainable sports models, but the Datejust.
McDonald's China Turns Takeout Bags Into Backpacks — And Yes, You Can Actually Carry Fries In It
From fan-made tribute to official merch, the "Big Fries Backpack" replicates every crease of the classic brown paper bag, complete with side pockets built to hold real fries — and a hidden laptop sleeve inside.
Memory, Neighborhoods & Strippers: Dazed's 5 Most Talked-About Photo Stories of July
From self-portraits restaging family trauma to a Xerox-degraded photo show, these are the five photo stories Dazed readers couldn't stop talking about in July — each one using a different tool to fight against something slowly disappearing.