Welcome Digest [12.10.25]
Horseflies paint, China's underground nightlife, The Heidelberg Project, and more
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Today’s Important Headlines
🪰 John Knuth’s Palm Beach exhibit turns one million houseflies into painters
The installation at Art Palm Beach uses flies coated in pigment to create evolving abstract paintings. Knuth says the project reflects “how what is normally overlooked can become something luminous.” Knuth was hands-on at every stage, from raising and feeding the thousands of dollars’ worth of flies to giving them carefully prepared mixtures of acrylic paint and sugar water.
👖 Denim Tears puts up actual Denim posters around NYC
In a well executed marketing move, Tremaine Emory, aka Denim Tears, promotes upcoming denim drop with real denim posters. Catch posters in NYC, London, and LA before the resellers rip them off the wall.
🇨🇳 Kirill Soklov launches a vivid photo series documenting China’s evolving nightlife underground
As financial pressures affect many of China’s historic clubs, the country’s nightlife scene is changing. Kirill Soklov’s photo collection moves between intimate looks at local rave communities in big cities like Shanghai and in smaller towns, while also capturing familiar fashion figures such as Raf Simons, Rick Owens, and Michele Lamy tucked into the scene and mingling at afterparties.
🫣 A$AP Rocky’s DON’T BE DUMB allegedly had around 6,000 preorders
While A$AP Rocky runs around doing everything but making music, his long-delayed album DON’T BE DUMB allegedly only had 6,000 preorders before everything was canceled and refunded last year. The reveal, via alleged Shopify backend data, felt very unsurprising to many online as today marks the 3 year anniversary of Rocky saying “Album finished. DON’T BE DUMB. Let’s go!”
🦾 At Paris Photo 2025, Julieta Tarraubella’s Cyborg Garden Exposes the Hidden Violence of Our Digitally Mediated World
Tarraubella’s installation at Rolf Art stands out at Paris Photo 2025 uses time-lapse flowers to ask how much of our experience of nature now passes through cameras and screens. She describes the work as “an encounter with the beauty of life mediated by the constant coldness of technology,” reminding us that we’re still humans with innate hopes and dreams living inside a world shaped by surveillance, concrete, and metal.
🍊 Heron Preston relaunches namesake label
Heron Preston is back and fully independent. The collection feels very Yeezy and Gosha inspired, controversially so according to some of the online discourse.
Headline curation and words by Mikail Haroon (@mvkail)
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From The Archive
An extra piece of content from the Welcome Archive for Magazine subscribers only.
The Heidelberg Project, found in Detroit.
The project began in 1986 when artist Tyree Guyton returned to his childhood block on Heidelberg Street and began painting vacant homes and covering them with discarded objects.
Working with his grandfather Sam Mackey and his wife Karen, he used toys, clocks, records and household items to mark abandoned structures and document conditions in the neighborhood. Individual houses developed themes, including facades covered in polka dots, damaged dolls or hand painted numbers.
The city demolished portions of the site in 1989, 1991 and 1999, and multiple fires in the 2010s destroyed additional houses. The remaining structures still line the block as part of the long running outdoor installation.
