The V&A East Storehouse archives will open its David Bowie collection to the public.
The V&A East Storehouse, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, will open in May, giving the public unprecedented access to the museum’s vast archives, including a major David Bowie collection. Spanning four floors, the 250,000-object facility will allow visitors to explore behind-the-scenes artifacts, textiles, and artwork without needing to pre-book their tickets.
A trade show dedicated to fashion and music will debut at Milan Fashion Week next fall.
Purple Sign of the Times, a new trade show at the intersection of music and fashion, will debut in Milan next September, coinciding with Milan Fashion Week. Created through a partnership between M.Seventy and Fiera Milano, the event aims to use DJ sets, fashion installations, concerts, and an ambassadorship with Italian pop star Achille Lauro to attract a younger audience than trade shows are known to draw.
Painter and novelist Leonora Carrington’s Mexico City home will not become a museum.
Plans to turn surrealist artist Leonora Carrington’s Mexico City home into a museum have been scrapped; the property will instead become a research center. The shift stems from disagreements between the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), which owns the residence, and its workers’ union. UAM now intends to focus on preserving Carrington’s legacy through documentation and research rather than public exhibitions.
Excavations are underway to build the monumental New Murabba skyscraper in Riyadh.
Excavations for Saudi Arabia’s Mukaab skyscraper, part of the New Murabba development in Riyadh, are nearing completion. The cube-shaped structure is large enough to fit 20 Empire State Buildings and a key component of Saudi Vision 2030.
The Guggenheim Bilbao proposes a museum expansion—into a nature preserve.
The Guggenheim’s plan to build a new museum in Spain’s Urdaibai biosphere reserve has sparked outrage from environmental groups and locals. Greenpeace and other organizations argue that the project, which anticipates 150,000 visitors annually, threatens the protected area’s delicate ecosystem.
Today’s attractive distractions:
Florida’s star python bounty hunter confronts a Sisyphean task.
A Canadian art collector’s $2,700 find turns out to be worth $390,000.
One midcentury comeback we didn’t foresee: hardshell tacos in L.A.
American Airlines is resorting to public shaming so-called “gate lice.”
