A Studio Between unveiled a major redesign of Frieze London, inspired by Jane Jacobs.
For this year’s edition of Frieze London, the contemporary art fair tapped local firm A Studio Between to reimagine its layout for its biggest redesign in a decade. Rather than concentrating major galleries at the entrance, the new floor plan featured “arterial roads” inspired by urban theorist Jane Jacobs that encouraged visitors to explore the entire fair, including emerging galleries’ booths.
SpaceX launches its Starship rocket on a test flight before re-catching its booster.
SpaceX completed a pivotal test on Sunday, successfully catching the booster stage of its Starship rocket after launch. The booster returned to Earth while the upper stage reached nearly 90 miles in altitude and landed in the Indian Ocean before exploding.
According to Lebanon’s Minister of Culture, its UNESCO World Heritage Sites are at risk.
Lebanon’s culture minister Mohammad Mortada has warned that several historic sites, including UNESCO World Heritage Sites, are at risk due to Israel’s invasion. Mortada has called for international intervention to protect these sites, while organizations like UNESCO and Aliph are working to assess the damage and secure funds for their preservation.
New media and performance artist Theresa Reiwer wins the Lumen Prize Gold Award.
Theresa Reiwer won the Lumen Prize Gold Award for her film installation Decoding Bias, which places viewers in a session with AI avatars tackling algorithmic discrimination. Other notable winners included Diego Trujillo Pisanty’s Blind Camera, which creates sound-based images, and Maren Dagny Juell’s Human Resource The Musical, a critique of corporate culture via an AI-generated performance.
MillerKnoll opens its first showroom abroad inside a modernist building in London.
MillerKnoll has opened its first flagship showroom outside the U.S. in a 1960s-era modernist building in London’s Clerkenwell district. The three-story space houses Herman Miller, Knoll, and Maharam furniture and textiles within the same district that also hosts the city’s Design Week.
Today’s attractive distractions:
A new edition of art book Tokyo Style extols the virtues of domestic clutter.
Pharrell Williams’ Lego-style biopic gets panned as a “hagiographical portrait.”
Wutopia Lab references mosquito nets for China’s Flickering Peak Art Center.
Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night is reimagined as landscape art in Bosnia.
