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Here are eight interesting things we wanted to share with you:
 

1. The sculptures of Stockholm-based artist Anton Alvarez are textured clay columns of vibrant color.
    

2. In the so-called “Florence of the North,” Venice Biennale standout Shuvinai Ashoona is “pushing the limits on what Inuit art was assumed to look like.”
    

3. BMW’s design chief Adrian van Hooydonk talks about electric luxury and the future of the sports car at Villa d'Este, where the public got a look at BMW’s new i7 all-electric sedan and a prototype of the upcoming XM. 
    

4. See our current favorite books on design and creativity.
    

5. The Hoxton, Poblenou in Barcelona is full of the colorful, geometric architectural style of Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill.
    

6. “Not everyone has that [opportunity,] to be beheld in someone else’s eyes. It’s a disorienting feeling. It’s never going to be totally accurate, but it can feel really wonderful and sort of weightless for a moment,” filmmaker, artist, and writer Miranda July tells It’s Nice That.
    

7. Young photographers around the world show off what May looked like for them in this series from i-D.
    

8. Object & Thing presents new work by textile artist Megumi Shauna Arai and ceramicist Frances Palmer through June 25, filling the Madoo Conservatory with character, color, and texture inspired by nature. 
    

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- Chris Force & Lark Breen