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Museo Jumex Announces an Exhibition Timed to the FIFA World Cup, and Other News

Plus, Pierre Koenig's L.A. Case Study House hits the market, and Freehaus is selected to design the Grenfell Tower Monument.

Marta Minujín, Mi Mundial (My World Cup). Courtesy of the artist

During the FIFA World Cup, Museo Jumex will host an exhibition on soccer, art, and their shared emotion.

Museo Jumex will mount a large-scale exhibition on the culture of soccer to coincide with the FIFA World Cup, opening in late March and running through the tournament’s end in July. Curated by Guillermo Santamarina, the show gathers roughly 100 works by 60 artists and uses architect Mauricio Rocha’s exhibition design to turn the museum into a reflection of the sport’s atmosphere and history. The presentation traces how soccer shapes ideas of gender, community, identity, and global belonging through works that span painting, photography, and performance. An outdoor installation built from repurposed Estadio Azteca seating anchors the project in Mexico City, highlighting the emotional and social charge the game holds for the region.

A bottle of Dom Pérignon from Princess Diana’s royal wedding will be auctioned.

A magnum of Dom Pérignon Vintage 1961 produced for Princess Diana and Prince Charles’ 1981 wedding will head to auction next month at Bruun Rasmussen, where it’s expected to sell for roughly $77,000 to $92,000. The bottle comes from a small run made exclusively for the ceremony and distinguished guests, which makes it a rarity even within the collectible champagne market. Its appeal spans wine buyers and royal-memorabilia collectors, especially given the global attention the wedding drew at the time. With so few examples ever released, this one is likely to draw heavy competition.

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Stahl House, Pierre Koenig’s L.A. Case Study House, has been listed for sale for the first time.

The Stahl House—Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House #22—has hit the market for the first time since Buck and Carlotta Stahl commissioned it in 1959. The glass-and-steel home sits on a narrow Hollywood Hills ridge, where the structure frames two bedrooms, open living spaces, and sweeping views that helped define postwar Los Angeles modernism. Julius Shulman’s 1960 photograph cemented its place in architectural history, and its vantage point over the city remains central to its impact. Listed at $25 million with its Historic-Cultural Monument status and Mills Act designation intact, the house now looks toward a new caretaker after more than six decades in one family’s hands.

Gen Z can’t get enough of the performative corporatism of the quarter zip.

Gen Z has turned the quarter zip into a social-media mascot for early-career ambition, swapping athletic gear for business-casual layers and broadcasting the shift through viral TikToks, meetups, and memes about Outlook, Teams, and LinkedIn. The look has spread fast: musicians, streamers, and even NBA 2K have folded it into their own feeds, helping push searches and sales sharply upward. For many young men, the sweater signals a desire to project competence in a brutal job market, a kind of self-aware cosplay of professional life. The joke has become a uniform, and the uniform has become a trend.

London-based architecture studio Freehaus will design the Grenfell Tower memorial.

London’s Freehaus studio will lead the design of the Grenfell Tower memorial after a years-long, community-driven selection process shaped by bereaved families, survivors, and North Kensington residents. The appointment signals the start of a formal design phase that brings together a multidisciplinary team, including landscape architects, engineers, and cultural advisors, to build a memorial rooted in the experiences of those most affected. More than 2,000 people contributed to the brief, with public engagement weighted heavily in the evaluation. Early meetings between the designers and former residents are now underway as the project moves toward a proposal expected to enter planning in 2027.

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