What’s Happening: A vibrant new box set tells the tale of DeYarmond Edison, the band that gave rise to Bon Iver and Megafaun.

The Download: Lots of small cities, even smaller towns, have one of those bands. They pull up at the local bar and wow the few who pay attention. They soundtrack the hook-ups and break-ups of their friend groups in backyards and at bonfires. They’re going to be huge. Most of these bands never made it. DeYarmond Edison, first of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and then briefly of the (still undersung) indie hothouse Raleigh—well, they almost did. Instead, they imploded. The difference between them and the rest is what’s next: From the ashes of DeYarmond Edison rose the shape-shifting emo-psych of Bon Iver and the psych-folk of Megafaun, two of the 21st century’s crucial rock bands.

The box set Epoch archives this for posterity in five LPs, four CDs, and a deeply intimate and gratifyingly detailed book by the set’s executive producer, the journalist (and longtime friend of the band) Grayson Haver Currin. It all charts childhood buddies Brad Cook, Phil Cook, Justin Vernon, and Joe Westerlund as they quickly transcend their influences and learn—in various combinations of solo and group recordings—who they are and what they can do.

It’s all in the sound. But Epoch offers visions, too. Its book is chockablock with period photos of the band, of course. The complexity of interpersonal relationships finds fascinating form in the set’s graphic design, devised by Secretly Group art director Miles Johnson, Nate Utesch, and Alexa Terfloth. Each period is embodied by its own symbology, arrangements of geometric shapes, and Pantone colors on record sleeves and lyric videos.

“The shapes were able to define motion and dynamics both individually and with reference to one another,” Johnson says. “Seen in isolation, they communicate certain characteristics, and when seen contextually within a set the communication develops and you can see chronology, change, development, and, in the end, separation.” The design is part Venn diagram, part sound wave, part mandala, part topography, and an elegant solution to tell the story of a momentous ecosystem of talent.

In Their Own Words: “Local culture—and, as important, the communities that nurture it—matters, especially as so much of life migrates from the meatspace,” Currin writes in the box set’s book. “Local culture can even change some larger corner of the world.”

Surface Says: Vernon and company acted locally before they achieved global status. Epoch finds ways to show how they came to do it—and proof for all those other bands that such things are possible.

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The Surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington was both builder and dissolver of worlds, a blurrer of boundaries between human, animal, machine, and vision—or, perhaps, documentarian of the blur. Her early work, like Crookley Hall (1947), registers spritely, maybe scary beings who draw attention to their own presence while threatening absence; in 1975’s Grandmother Moorhead’s Aromatic Kitchen, intense domestic labor becomes akin to magic, as the working kitchen is also a strange almanac of mythology and personal history. Carrington’s paintings and fiction often define their settings as places where people are not allowed to follow their nature yet do anyway, as places where what people do is recognizably inexplicable.

In Surreal Spaces, the journalist Joanna Moorhead (a cousin of Carrington), explores the physical places in which Carrington lived and worked. From the posh grimness of Crookley and the wild warmth of her grandmother’s kitchen in Ireland, through the sites of her astonishing artistic travels—the home in Saint-Martin-d’Ardèche she and husband Max Ernst covered in red unicorns and a discomfiting pair of self-portraits in bas-relief; an asylum in Santander and exile in New York; and midcentury Mexico City, where she built a matriarchal family of blood and chosen members in a house-cum-magic workshop.

Moorhead’s insights are intimate and welcome, but the design is all according to Carrington. In The Hearing Trumpet, she wrote: “Houses are really bodies. We connect ourselves with walls, roofs, and objects just as we hang on to our livers, skeletons, flesh, and bloodstream.” It shows the world can be what you make it, even as you are what it makes you.

Name: The Rebello

Location: Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto

Designers: Metro Urbe & Quiet Studios

On Offer: Bomporto’s third Portuguese project integrates a series of 19th-century buildings on the banks of the Douro river, just across from Porto, into a new five-star hotel. Just over 100 apartments range from studios to three-bedroom penthouses, each in palettes devised by interior designer Daniela Franceschini of walnut, steel, and concrete. A kid’s club, two meeting rooms, and gym round out the amenities. Roman Baths inspired the Rebello Spa, while principles of Chinese, Japanese, and Indian traditions inspired its treatments—including the trademark “Ritual” two-hour full-body exfoliation, massage, and facial followed by a dip in a water lounge illuminated by fixtures paying tribute to the phases of the moon.

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LGDR is splitting up after two years. Formed by four prominent art dealers—Dominique Lévy, Brett Gorvy, Amalia Dayan, and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn—to subvert the traditional gallery model, the consortium aimed to offer something different in competition with mega-galleries. Greenberg Rohatyn announced her departure from the group and will relaunch Salon 94 in October, which is kicking off with exhibitions of sculptures by Karon Davis, ceramics by Myrtle Williams, and hip-hop jewelry by Dynasty & Soull Ogun. The remaining members will continue working together and will be known as Lévy Gorvy Dayan.

In other gallery-related news, Blum & Poe’s founders Tim Blum and Jeff Poe are parting ways after nearly three decades together. Poe will depart the gallery, which will retain its name. Matt Bangser, a partner who oversaw the gallery’s New York outpost, was named managing partner. A reason for Poe’s departure wasn’t immediately given.

The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture announced Dora Epstein Jones will join its faculty; she previously served as executive director of the A+D Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles. The Cooper Union, meanwhile, announced it will retain Hayley Eber as acting dean for the next two years and hire architect and urbanist Mokena Makeka for a new special advisor role. In Austria, menswear designer Craig Green was named fashion design professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Is there any greater joy than snuggling up under a throw in the frigid expanse of an American air-conditioned interior? If you know, you know, and those who do will agree there’s no statute of seasonality on enjoying a voluminous mohair blanket in colors inspired by Le Corbusier’s Architectural Polychromy. Each limited-edition blanket is hand-woven in Spain and finished with a hand-signed number. Go ahead: set the thermostat to 68 degrees, grab a tall glass of ice water, and bask in the high-low balance. $745

When: Until Oct. 1

Where: Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami

What: The self-taught artist’s latest show is a retrospective of 70 works of sculpture, quilt paintings, and works on paper. Highlights include Without Skin, a sculpture that takes firehoses, which were famously weaponized against peaceful protesters during the Civil Rights Movement, and renders them inert while still preserving a menacing subtext. Nearby, The Water This Time prominently features a cross as both a symbol of the importance of the church as a gathering place during the Civil Rights Movement, and the intimidation tactic used by the Ku Klux Klan. The breadth of Holley’s fine art practice is rooted in sandstone-like carved sculptures and the transformation of salvaged materials and even garbage to tell a story of Black identity and rebirth.

Studio PCH is a creative studio located in Venice, California, that designs warm, exciting, and sophisticated spaces, with a focus on high-end hospitality. Encompassing both architectural and interior design, Studio PCH has completed recent projects such as Nobu Los Cabos, which was shortlisted for a World Architecture Festival award.

Surface Says: This California-based studio, led by French architect Severine Tatangelo, continues to bring the characteristics of home to hotels, restaurants, and commercial spaces.

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