Monolyth
Monolyth
Into the Unknown

The Belgian duo opens the door to their forthcoming debut EP, “HABESHA”, with a new single about knowing love might hurt and choosing to fall anyway.

Janet Devlin
Janet Devlin
Owning Her Story

From Nashville sessions to the Irish identity she wears proudly, the singer traces the experiences behind her new music and the candour that shapes her work.

Pepa Salazar S/S 2027
Pepa Salazar S/S 2027
Cuando los básicos construyen una identidad

La reinvención de los básicos se construye desde la transparencia, el drapeado y una silueta femenina ligera. Una colección de piezas básicas pero suficientemente alejadas de la norma.

About Glenn Martens’ departure from Diesel
About Glenn Martens’ departure from Diesel
Life and Success

His final Diesel show closes six years of experimental denim and a democratic vision of fashion. What comes next for the brand he helped revive?

John Gerrard
John Gerrard
What We Leave Behind

With “SPIRITS”, the artist transforms over ninety discarded plastic shoes collected from four bodies of water into an interactive reflection on our dependence on petroleum and plastic.

Dior Cruise 2028
Dior Cruise 2028
Nóng hō, Shanghai

Jonathan Anderson is taking the Maison to the restless Chinese megalopolis to bridge past and present, heritage and the contemporary, while honouring the founder’s 1948 collection.

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Barragán
Barragán
Contradiction, Desire, and Discomfort

We sit down with the Mexican to discuss risk-taking, gentrification, identity, and humour in his work, more specifically, his S/S 2027 collection, recently presented in Berlin.

Diez películas para los días de verano
Diez películas para los días de verano
Deseo, aburrimiento, infancia, precariedad y descubrimiento

Diez películas recorren veranos de 1989 a 2025 entre el Bronx, Turquía y Salta, con Spike Lee, Charlotte Wells y Lucrecia Martel detrás de la cámara.

Ludovic de Saint Sernin
Ludovic de Saint Sernin
His North Star Is Staying True to Himself

Between a couture shipwreck, Tate McRae’s pop world and an off-calendar reset, the designer weighs ambition against the happiness that keeps creativity alive.

A Kind of Paradise
A Kind of Paradise
A Contemporary Confrontation of Colonial Photography

The Museum Rietberg in Zurich presents a subversively empathetic reimagining of colonial photography in order to highlight the universality of colonial domination.

Festival de San Sebastián 2026
Festival de San Sebastián 2026
Ocho nuevos directores a seguir de cerca

Ocho nombres amplían el mapa del cine emergente con la oscuridad de Marlene Emilie Lyngstad y el duelo animal de Rodrigo García Saiz en primer plano.

Roger Ballen
Roger Ballen
On Chaos, Animals, Boyhood, and the Mind

Inside Roger Ballen’s world, order and disorder collide. We talk childhood, trust, AI and the shadows that make an image hard to shake for days after seeing it.

Only Fire
Only Fire
Horny and Tasteful

Horny, bubbly, funny — the artist’s sophomore album, “Hoe Weekend,” delivers club-ready beats and over-the-top lyrics to boost your mood as summer is still with us.

METAL Nº54 - Story 10
METAL Nº54 - Story 10
Hugo Aoki & Aina Marcó

Lecturas de verano
Lecturas de verano
Recomendadas por el equipo de METAL y ACERO

Seis libros elegidos por el equipo abren rutas muy distintas, del delirio tecnológico de Emily Segal al terror de Junji Ito y los afectos queer de Hanya Yanagihara.

Cece Natalie
Cece Natalie
Building Ceceworld

From making “Exitin” on a bus to touring with PinkPantheress, she is reclaiming her viral past while building a darker, mythological next era.

Lifeng Liao
Lifeng Liao
The Delicious Unknown

Bodies and feathers create a frisson in “Inner Sanctuary”, the textile artist’s latest show in London. Her works hone in on obscure symbolic and linguistic restraint.

Joshua Serafin – Partir el corazón de la serpiente
Joshua Serafin – Partir el corazón de la serpiente
Un cuerpo para otros mundos

Entre mitología filipina, materia oscura y deseo queer, el artista imagina cuerpos que se resisten a ser definidos en su exposición individual en el C3A de Córdoba.

The Femcels
The Femcels
They Say the Sound of Sincerity is Ironic

From a mouse-infested flat and a broken bed to electro-twee’s internet spotlight, the duo trace the messy beginnings behind their sharpest contradictions.

Martin Luke Brown
Martin Luke Brown
Finding Joy in the Ordinary

One month before “life & death etc” arrives, Martin Luke Brown revisits “dream state,” another step towards his most candid and quietly captivating record to date.

METAL Nº54 - Story 9
METAL Nº54 - Story 9
Angelo Lamparelli & Rujana Cantoni

Cecilia Pignocchi
Cecilia Pignocchi
Past, Mother, Present

With Raffaella as both subject and collaborator, the artist uses saturated colour to confront the expectations passed from mother to daughter.

Brunch Electronik Barcelona regresa a los Jardins de Joan Brossa
Brunch Electronik Barcelona regresa a los Jardins de Joan Brossa
Vuelta a casa

Los Jardins de Joan Brossa vuelven a convertirse en el hogar de Brunch Electronik con cuatro jornadas encabezadas por ARTBAT, Solomun y Dennis Cruz b2b Josh Baker.

Casa Merceditas
Casa Merceditas
Un espacio acogedor en el corazón del Empordà

En el corazón del Empordà, este alojamiento rural une arquitectura, diseño y memoria en un hotel de siete habitaciones pensado para cuidar a quien lo habita.

Venice International Film Festival 2026
Venice International Film Festival 2026
Our Top Ten Selection

Our Venice 2026 shortlist crosses Robert Pattinson’s controversial sting show, Oasis’s reunion footage and Danny Boyle’s morally messy tabloid origin story.

Fruity Booty
Fruity Booty
I Know Her!

Hattie Tennant explains why the brand leaves bodies unretouched, designs around deadstock and makes room for women to dress for more than one version of themselves.

METAL Nº54 - Story 8
METAL Nº54 - Story 8
Giuseppe Triscari & Guillem Chanzá

The Gardens of Babylon x Brunch Electronik Ibiza
The Gardens of Babylon x Brunch Electronik Ibiza
El último acto

WhoMadeWho, Mind Against, Bob Moses y Henrik Schwarz lideran las dos últimas jornadas de Between Worlds, el regreso de The Gardens of Babylon a 528 Ibiza.

Dekmantel 2026 
Dekmantel 2026 
A Forest of Many Frequencies

Three days of dancing in the forest with something for everyone: early birds and night owls, diggers and divas, listeners and dancers. Here’s what went down at the Dutch festival.

Alejandro Cartagena – Ground Rules
Alejandro Cartagena – Ground Rules
Contra el espejismo del suburbio

Fundación MAPFRE presenta en Madrid una amplia revisión de la obra del fotógrafo dominicano-mexicano, que desmonta las promesas de progreso a fuerza de repetirlas.