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CULTURED 77 16 Founded in 1988, the European Union's prestigious architecture prize, The Mies van der Rohe Award, announces its five 2015 finalists: BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group (Denmark), Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei (Germany), Archea Associati (Italy), Barozzi / Veiga (Poland) and O'Donnell + Tuomey (United Kingdom). Laureates will be announced on May 8 at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona, during an exhibition celebrating excellence and innovation in contemporary European architecture. miesarch.com © KIMBELL ART MUSEUM, PHOTO BY BOB WHARTON PHOTO BY SIMON MENGES (FILHARMONIA SZCZECINSKA); PHOTO BY LIM KOK BOON 17 18 RADICAL TEXTILES Carla Fernández's wearable art—based on traditional Mexican clothing-making techniques—has garnered her heaps of attention in Mexico, but she's remained largely unknown in the U.S. Lately, that's begun to change, as she debuts "Carla Fernández: Design Culture Mexico" at Heath Ceramics' Boiler Room in San Francisco from April 18-May 17. boilerroomsf.com In an era when political action is taken mostly by keystroke, the work of Chicago-based artist William Pope.L—in which whipping American flags, sprouting vegetables and reenacting the Civil War portray democracy as corporal, discomfiting and short-lived—feels both deeply rooted in 1970s-era installation art and urgently necessary. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, presents "William Pope.L: Trinket" through June 28. moca.org William Pope L.'s Circa, 2015