Up now: Reykjavik's annual Arts Festival, featuring a variety of visual, performance and multimedia artworks. (Yes, suddenly ubiquitous artist Ólafur Elíasson curated an exhibit.) Among the works featured is Atlantis (pictured) by Tea Mäkipää and Halldór Úlfarsson, a house installed in the city's pond that has working lights and broadcasts sounds from its interior—everything from singing to arguing. Too avant-garde? Take in some natural history in Húsavík, a small town to the capital's north, at the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which hosts a collection of male reproductive organs (among them a 154-pound specimen from a sperm whale). Hey, it's got to be more interesting than listening to Sigur Rós.

A good iPod dock is hard to find, especially if you're of the iPhone/Touch generation. That's why QDOS' Sound Frame, due this July, is such a refreshing find. It weighs less than half a pound and it's designed to be a real space-saver. Better yet, it rotates 90 degrees, making it easy to watch videos on the screen. (Tiny? Yes. But do we still use ours? Absolutely.) The 1.5-watt speakers won't knock anyone's ears out, though its size and versatility make it especially road-friendly. Look for it in July; price remains TBD.

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Beacon will get a shot of color this weekend when 24 street artists converge on the upstate New York town for Electric Windows, an installation of their work on the outside of a 19th-century electric blanket factory. (Beacon, apparently, is lousy with old factories begging for reuse.) Artists contributing, including Lady Pink and Michael De Feo, will all be painting live, and the installation will be followed by an after-party. Sounds very Chelsea, but Beacon prevails in the end: The bash will be held at a local BBQ joint.
510 Main St., Beacon, NY, electricwindowsbeacon.com

In New York this weekend? You could do a lot worse than hitting the parties around Design Week: Once you know where to go, it's (relatively) easy to get past the clipboard-wielding door dictators. With the International Contemporary Furniture Fair opening tomorrow in Manhattan, there's no shortage of related events. We've broken down the best in our night-by-night itinerary:

The Terence Conran Shop turns red with an installation of Spanish works. Designs by Jaime Hayon, Martí Guixé, and others mix with stuffed piquillo pepper hors d'oeuvres (407 E. 59th St., 6-9 p.m.). Another option? Smallpond, Matter, and I.D. magazine's Housewarming, with installations by Established & Sons, Tom Dixon, and Thorsten van Elten (101 W. 24th St., 6:30-9 p.m.).

Spend the night in Soho: The Moss-Moroso-Maharam complex (150-152 Greene St.) features Studio Job's Robber Baron (pictured, the side table from a suite of five objects) alongside Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny's vases made by bees. Stop by the live auction at Cappellini (151 Wooster St., 7-10 p.m.), and check the scenes at Design Within Reach (110 Greene St., 7-10 p.m.), Kiosk (95 Spring St., 7-10 p.m.), and Bond (133 Greene St., 6-9:30 p.m.). Best bet? Core77's black light Ping-Pong party, which is exactly what it sounds like. (For secret location, e-mail rsvp77@core77.com.)

Alife kicks off a series of exhibitions at its L.A. store tomorrow with a collaboration between author Dumar Brown and iconic graffiti writer Haze, who got his start in the early seventies bombing subway trains on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Nov York City is based on Brown's latest novel, The World Screaming Nov, about a scrappy, graf-obsessed kid from Brooklyn, and features eight new silkscreens on canvas. If you're not in L.A. this weekend, Haze's limited-edition Nov T-shirt (pictured) is also on sale at Alife stores in New York, Vancouver, and Tokyo.
Through June 17 at Alife L.A., 451 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA, (323) 655-2093, alifenyc.com

After appointing a pinup to his cabinet last week, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi finds himself once again treading dicey ethical (and marital) territory. GQ UK reports that Berlusconi was caught on camera passing a flirty note to Nunzia De Girolamo (pictured, left) and Gabriella Giammanco (right), two attractive female members of his parliament. (Its contents included the following lines of deathless prose: "Gabri, Nunzia, you look very good sitting there together," "Thank you for sticking around [to listen to the speech] but it is not necessary," and "Many kisses both of you!!!") Said Giammanco, "He was not trying it on at all." We wouldn't blame his wife, of course, for thinking differently.

Yep, the panel-based office prison turns 40 this week. Originally known as an Action Office, it was developed in 1968 by Herman Miller designer Robert Propst. (He would later say he regretted his contribution to "monolithic insanity.") Celebrate by burning yours down—or at least making time for another screening of Office Space.

The designer certainly isn't shy about his brand of sexy: Ford's latest louche offering comes in the form of limited-edition sunglasses—the Carlos ($2,200) and the Pavlos ($2,400, pictured), available only in New York at ILORI and Tom Ford Collection. The former is rimmed with metal and comes with a brown or green lens; the latter is made of Santos rosewood or ebony and polished plated gold "for a sensual seventies sexiness." In other obvious news, it doesn't look like the designer's going to put his libido in check anytime soon.
ILORI, 138 Spring St., New York, NY, (212) 226-8276, iloristyle.com

Known for melding old-school cobbling techniques with the latest in shoe technology, Harry's of London has been doing brisk business since its inception in 2001. The company has made a name for itself by designing classics with eye-catching twists, like those on the Archie (pictured). Now comes news of Harry's online launch: Although the footwear has been for sale elsewhere in the U.S., this marks the first time the entire line will be available in one place.
harrysoflondon.com

There's no end to the gossip about Hedi Slimane (and no, for the record, he's not going to Diesel), but this news, at least, is confirmed: The designer's photography show, Hedi Slimane_MUSAC, opens tomorrow in León, Spain. The pictures were taken at last year's Festival International de Benicàssim, Spain's version of Coachella, which draws thousands annually to the southeastern coast. Slimane capturing teenage rock fans on film isn't exactly revelatory, but the quality of his work speaks loud and clear. (It has to, after all, to make itself heard over all that gossip.)
May 17–September 7, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, 24 Avenida de los Reyes Leoneses, León, Spain, 011 (34) 987 09 00 00, musac.es