Bang & Olufsen unveiled an immersive exhibit in Copenhagen.
Bang & Olufsen opened “The Residence of Beautiful Sound” in Copenhagen, a four-room exhibition tracing the brand’s ongoing dialogue between design heritage and contemporary craft. The experience brings together beloved and recreated classics, bespoke listening environments through the Bang & Olufsen Atelier program, and collaborations with three Japanese artisans: copper workshop Gyokusendo, paper makers Nao Washi, and furniture atelier Karimoku.
David Hockney spent six decades remaking the language of painting.
English painter David Hockney was instantly recognizable in his signature cap, round glasses, and checkered attire. He was a rare figure who caught the attention of both the general public and the art world’s more resistant critical establishment without adjusting for either. He painted what he loved: the people and places accumulated across a life divided between London, Los Angeles, East Yorkshire, and Normandy. Speaking to the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in 1984, he described his pictures as mirroring the workings of memory: subjective, accumulated, experienced through the body rather than from a fixed point.
Yinka Ilori’s first solo exhibition at Cristea Roberts Gallery in London.
Yinka Ilori has built his practice on the language of joy: vivid, communal, and celebratory. His first solo exhibition, “Joy Through Resistance, He Who Laughs Last, Laughs Best,” now on view at Cristea Roberts Gallery in London through July 11, marks a shift. Following the loss of his mother, the British artist turned to making art as a means of processing grief, producing a multimedia body of work that holds both sorrow and resilience in the same frame. The title, a phrase his mother used to say, signals the exhibition’s central proposition: that joy, far from being the absence of hardship, can be its most defiant response.
Zaha Hadid Architects is now ZHA.
A decade after Zaha Hadid’s death, the London-based practice she founded has officially rebranded as ZHA, a move that follows a March ruling by the U.K. Court of Appeal confirming the firm was not required to indefinitely retain its founder’s name or continue paying royalties to the Zaha Hadid Foundation. The decision ended a trademark licensing agreement that had been the subject of a closely watched legal dispute.
A 1960s house in Lagos becomes a home for art, culture, and community.
In Ikoyi, Lagos, curator and founder Ugoma Chinelo Ebilah has transformed a two-story house, originally built by Italian construction company G Cappa in the 1960s, with views across the Lagos Lagoon, into Mbari Kola: The Arts Society, a new cultural club for Pan-African creative life. Working with architect Kelechi Odu, Ebilah chose to intervene as lightly as possible: the original staircase and terrazzo floors were retained, the perimeter walls kept, and the rear extended using a steel frame system that preserves the house’s indoor-outdoor orientation. Inside, the program spans exhibitions, talks, workshops, and gatherings, with an emphasis on education and cross-continental exchange.
Today’s attractive distractions:
Ayan Zalaat, Mongolia’s first ultra-luxury hotel, opens in a UNESCO reserve.
Louise Trotter reimagines Bottega Veneta’s gondola clog in silver.
A rich shade of burgundy defines Fritz Hansen and Technics’ new limited-edition lamp and turntable.
Rosalía opens her North American Lux tour in Jonathan Anderson’s Dior.
