Maybe these types of shops can only exist online but we wonder why we don’t see more of them in the real world. We’re talking about Kaufmann Mercantile, Vetted, and now Slowdownjoe based in the UK, a shop that specializes in “Good Honest Goods.” The partners behind Slowdownjoe are Lewis and Matthew Hull, owners of Superdenim. Slowdownjoe offers a collection of lifestyle products for the home, office, and outdoors. You’ll come across familiar brands like Baxter of California, Field Notes, and Snow Peak but a lot of surprises as well including Lovat Mill, considered to be the best wool and tweed weavers in the UK, Midori, a premium stationary line from Japan, and Turner & Harper a brand that elevates tools for the home. See what else a slow lifestyle of products look like from Slowdownjoe.

Plans were revealed last week for Marina Abramovic’s performance institute in Hudson New York. The theater will be designed by Rem Koolhaus’s office OMA and will take over a former community tennis building. The brick exterior with its white columns will remain but the interior will be entirely different. Along with a performance space, a library and classrooms will be added for meditation. Architect’s Newspaper explains that the stark white interior will " blur the boundaries between audience and performer." And because Abramovic is concerned with extended performances, she and “OMA have invented a kind of wheeled lounge chair in which visitors can rest, nap, and be rolled by staff to different levels of facility along a giant spiral ramp.” See more photos of the planned theater as well as more insight into the design.

The process in making a sculpture is just as important as the finished piece for Tom Sachs. It’s an educational undertaking for him as he explained in a 2011 interview with Intermission Magazine. One can imagine his knowledge in space travel given that the topic is one that he revisits frequently. The public will have a chance to witness these learnings as Sachs takes over 55,000 sq ft of space inside the Wade Thompson Drill Hall in his new exhibition, Space Program: Mars. The exhibition will include performances when his sculptures will be utilized to reenact rocket launches and interplanetary travels to Mars. Watch the Michel Gondry-esque trailer produced to promote the exhibition. Space Program: Mars will be on view for four weeks starting this Wednesday, May 16.