WHERE TO GO

"LACMA x Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives"

Various locations throughout Los Angeles County

Coming soon

A new augmented reality “museum” experience delivered via the Snapchat app shares the untold stories of communities in Los Angeles county by exploring the role of monuments, murals, and visual representation. In an effort to reflect richer, more inclusive histories, the exhibit will partner five artists with Snap Lens Creators to create site-specific virtual monuments and murals across the city.

"The Queen and The Crown"

Smash streaming hits The Crown and The Queen’s Gambit featured outstanding performances by the leading actors—but also outstanding are the ingenious way that the costume designers incorporated black and white into fictional chess champion Beth Harmon’s wardrobe, and the reimagining of Princess Diana’s legendary wedding dress—a design project that took 600 hours. It’s brilliant costuming efforts like these that help bring each character to life. And now users can click through and get all the details in a virtual exhibit organized by Netflix in collaboration with the Brooklyn Museum.

WHAT TO READ

Home Stories: 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors

Edited by Mateo Kries, Jochen Eisenbrand (Vitra Design, 2020)

Catch a glimpse into 20 iconic residential interiors from acclaimed architects, artists, and designers like Cecil Beaton, Lina Bo Bardi, Finn Juhl, Kisho Kurokawa, Jacques Tati, and Mies van der Rohe. The book includes historic and recent photographs, drawings and plans, exploring each case study as a key moment in the history of the modern interior.

Below: Image from Home Stories: Karl Lagerfeld’s Monte Carlo Apartment (with designs by Memphis), Monaco, ca. © 1983Jacques Schumacher

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly In League With The Night

by Elizabeth Alexander (D.A.P./Tate, 2020)

British painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is known for Renaissance-style portraits of Black figures. This volume of nearly 80 paintings and drawings accompanies the first major survey of her work at Tate Britain, and explores the artist’s creative process as both a painter and a writer.

(Below: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Complication, 2013. Photograph: Photo by Marcus J Leith / © Courtesy of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye)

WHAT TO WATCH

Full Bloom (2020)

It’s a basic premise of biophilic design: Exposure to flowers can help relieve stress and improve overall mental health. So if you’re in need of a quick mood boost, enter the vibrant world of Full Bloom, a new competition show hosted by floral masterminds Elizabeth Cronin of Asrai Garden in Chicago, Maurice Harris of Bloom & Plume in Los Angeles, and Simon Lycett of Simon J Lycett Ltd in London. Ten florists flex their petals in a series of challenges for a chance to win $100,000 to kickstart their business.

(Below: Photograph by Anne Marie Fox / HBOMAX)

WHAT TO LISTEN TO

Talk Art

Hosted by actor Russell Tovey and gallerist Robert Diament, Talk Art explores how art helps connect the world. Recent episodes cover everything and everyone from Torkwase Dyson exploring the continuity between ecology, infrastructure, and architecture to Yinka Ilori, the London artist who discussed how he melds his British and Nigerian heritage to tell new stories in contemporary design.

(Hosts gallerist Robert Diament and actor Russell Tovey Courtesy of Maverick Photo Agency)