Coachella and Milan Design Week roundups; Fakemink's single video; a crazy new tool for exploring MoMA's archive; and more

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Apr 20, 2026

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Coachella Weekend 2 Roundup

As usual, Weekend 2 leaned into guest appearances and crossovers. Justin Bieber was at the center of it all, bringing Billie Eilish onstage as his “One Less Lonely Girl” and rotating through appearances from Big Sean, Dijon, SZA, and Sexyy Red. Young Thug tapped into fan favorites from his catalog with a standout performance of “Family Don’t Matter” from Beautiful Thugger Girls. Sabrina Carpenter surprised the crowd by bringing out Madonna for a joint performance of “Like a Prayer,” while Addison Rae welcomed Olivia Rodrigo to debut her new song “Drop Dead.” PinkPantheress kept the momentum going, inviting Zara Larsson to perform “Midnight Sun” and teasing a remix.

Fakemink’s new single video is directed by Noah Dillon

The first single from Fakemink’s debut album Terrified arrived with a music video directed by Noah Dillon. The track, “Night, Blooming Jasmine,” references the inscription on David Lynch’s grave. Dillon and Mink have maintained a long-standing creative relationship, with Dillon previously appearing on the artwork for Mink’s London’s Savior mixtape cover, following an encounter at an afterparty where a then-unknown Mink approached him, handed over a USB, and asked for a photo. For more of Dillon’s video work, you can check out The Hellp’s music videos, “flash” and “crush” by 2hollis, this SSENSE Versace campaign, and ian and Chief Keef’s “Shit Sad.”

Milan Design Week roundup

Gucci created a soda machine serving three original flavors designed by Demna, and placed it in one of Italy’s oldest monasteries, while Aesop transformed a Milanese church into a sculptural lamp built from hundreds of its signature glass bottles. At Giardino delle Arti, Arket presented a whimsical vegetable carousel in collaboration with artist Laila Gohar, while Loro Piana explored textile heritage through “Studies,” reinterpreting its signature plaids across 24 conceptual works. Miu Miu hosted a three-day Literary Club, and Jaipur Rugs partnered with architect Kengo Kuma to unveil 16 handcrafted rugs at the Crespi Bonsai Museum, the largest Bonsai tree collection outside of Japan.

You can now interactively explore MoMA’s entire digital collection

A new experimental interface by Emily Sihan Zhang embeds MoMA’s digitized collection into a multimodal system powered by Gemini, turning its 100,000 artworks into a searchable visual network. One of its most exciting features is a completely new kind of discovery tool; users can select parts of an artwork by dragging a box over the desired area, and the system will identify and return five related works that share thematic or visual elements with the selected area. The project is currently limited to MoMA’s digitized holdings, but Zhang aims to eventually expand it across the museum’s full collection.

The Strokes Coachella set visuals were a montage of CIA assassinations and war crimes

At their headline set at Coachella, The Strokes screened a montage asserting U.S. involvement in the overthrow of mid-century foreign leaders, pairing archival portraits of figures like Mohammad Mosaddegh, Patrice Lumumba, and Salvador Allende with text accusing American agencies. The clip also referenced the 1999 civil verdict that found parties, including government entities, liable in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The sequence closed with images of widespread damage to Iranian campuses and a strike on Gaza’s final university. The weekend prior, frontman Julian Casablancas wore an Amazon “Crime” t-shirt and openly questioned draft registration efforts.

Headline curation and words by Mikail Haroon (@mvkail)