DT500: THE CONFESSION: Art, Identity, and Denim: Cacho Falcon’s Unique Narrative. NYC

Cacho Falcon built http://www.cachofalcon.com not only to showcase his art, but to give strangers somewhere to tell the stories they might never tell anyone else.
The response was immediate and unexpectedly intimate. Anonymous emails began arriving, filled with loss, hope, regret, desire and love. Falcon discovered that people were often willing to reveal their darkest experiences to a stranger — stories too difficult, private or painful to share elsewhere.

Those anonymous voices became part of his artistic vocabulary. Woven together with his own experiences, they evolved into a powerful body of drawings and paintings exploring memory, vulnerability, intimacy and the contradictions of being human.

What began as a website became an archive of human experience — and a new source of material for Falcon’s art.

“ROLE MODELS” SERIES: THE FIVE HUNDRED FACED – DJ MAI SCHAARUP IN VIBRANT COPENHAGEN

Mai Schaarup — DT500 MAG DT500 MAG featured Danish DJ Mai Schaarup as part of its Role Models series, exploring her work within Copenhagen’s vibrant music and nightlife scene.
The feature presented Schaarup as more than a DJ — highlighting the people who create cultural spaces, influence communities and challenge conventional ideas of identity and visibility.
The article remains part of DT500 MAG’s early editorial archive and reflects the publication’s longstanding interest in documenting the individuals shaping contemporary culture across London and Northern Europe.

DT 500 THE INSTITUTIONAL QUESTION SERIES: STEFAN HYTTFORS’ FUTURERISM: STOCKHOLM

STEFAN HYTTFORS: ARE WE READY FOR WHAT COMES NEXT?

AI, automation, disruption and the future of work are no longer distant predictions — they are reshaping the world around us.

Futurist Stefan Hyttfors takes a provocative look at how technology is changing business, leadership and human behaviour, challenging the assumptions behind the way we work and build organisations.

As companies race to adapt to technological change, the bigger question is becoming impossible to ignore: what happens to people, power and leadership when the rules of work are rewritten?

A sharp and forward-looking conversation about innovation, disruption, technology and the future of work — and who will be prepared to lead what comes next.

ANTHONY LISTER THE LOWBROW-O. SYDNEY

ANTHONY LISTER: ART WITHOUT BOUNDARIES
In the run-up to his 2015 exhibition at New Image Art in Los Angeles, Lister turned Venice and Downtown LA into an open-air studio, covering the city with new street works that would feed directly into a major body of paintings, bronze sculptures, VR and live performance.
DT500 Zine followed the artist through this intense two-week period, capturing a practice that refused to stay inside the gallery — moving between street art, painting, sculpture, technology and performance.

Featuring voices from graffiti writer Risk, gallery owner Marsee Goldberg, director Mark Simpson and performance artist Ariel Brickman, the film offers a snapshot of an artist pushing against the boundaries of contemporary art.

A decade later, the questions feel even more relevant: where does art belong, who gets to define it, and what happens when the gallery becomes the street, the screen and the live experience?

DEEP DOWN DOPEISM THE BODY TEASERS. OSLO

DEEP DOWN DOPEIZM: ANTIBIOSE

What happens when movement becomes a language for everything we struggle to say?

Oslo street-dance collective Deep Down Dopeizm pushes hip-hop, house, popping, breaking and waacking into emotionally charged territory, confronting the fragile space between connection and conflict, intimacy and violence, individuality and belonging. In *Antibiose*, the dancers turn the body into a site of resistance, asking a deeply human question: do we hurt one another because it is in our nature — or because society teaches us to?

Raw, physical and confrontational, the work challenges the boundaries between street culture, contemporary dance and social commentary, revealing how movement can expose the tensions we carry within ourselves.

CREEPER CREEPER BY DAMEHT. NYC

” A NEW VIDEO FOR THEIR SINGLE “CREEPER CREEPER” AND IT’S A CAMPY BLAST. TAKING CULTURAL HINTS FROM THE LIKES OF STEVE STRANGE, SOO THE CAT WOMAN AND NEW ROMANTICISM, THE VIDEO IS A VISUAL TREAT AND AN APPROPRIATE ODE FOR A BAND KNOWN BEST FOR THEIR SECRET SHOWS.” NYLON MAGAZINE