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Long Live Coperni

Bella Hadid between two Fabrican technicians as they spray a white dress onto her at Coperni’s spring/summer 2023 show

The collaborators and material experiments behind Coperni, following the founders’ announcement that the label has ceased operations.

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An Identity Made by Sound

A hand adjusts the Apple Music note in a blue-lit mineral-oil tank at Optical Arts

How sound waves moving through mineral oil shaped Apple Music’s new identity, from its refracted logo and redrawn wordmark to a sonic signature by Fred again.. and NEST Acoustics.

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Concatenation

Concatenation necklace arranged in a circle against a black background

A chain holds separate links together as one form. Through knots, interwoven patterns, and jewellery, this exhibition explores the connections that bind individual elements into a whole.

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Worn into Shape

Blue, orange, and white Koishi poufs by Naoto Fukasawa

A pebble acquires its shape through contact: with water, with grit, with other stones. The objects gathered here bring that familiarity into manufactured form.

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Supra Strata

Supra Strata projected in a dark gallery at the Centre Pompidou.

Noémie Goudal’s photographs become the set for a film about geological time. Built in layers and filmed as it dissolves, the set reveals one landscape beneath another.

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From Storage to Display

A silver Rimowa cabin case beneath the open drawer at the Milan visitor centre

A suitcase spends much of its life going nowhere. Rimowa and Swiss furniture maker Lehni have designed the Bench and Drawer for that in-between time.

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The Blade

Close-up of flowing Damascus steel patterns on a Dovedale knife blade

From forged knives and ceremonial flints to cut canvas and couture, this exhibition follows the blade through centuries of making.

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After Stonehendge

The desert horizon framed by Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels

One of the most carefully made features at Stonehenge was a gap. The works gathered here return to weight, light, and the movement of people.

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