How Designers Select Art for Interiors

Carolyn Edlund

Artist and color consultant Barbara Jacobs shares insights about working with designers and their clients.

Pastel painting by Barbara Jacobs titled "Stories of Storms"

“Stories of Storms” pastel, by artist Barbara Jacobs

November 28th, 2019 · Tags: Art per se · Design · Tips

Inner Space (The Book)

Fosco Lucarelli and Mariabruna Fabrizi

We present Inner Space, an essay we have written in connection to the curatorship of the homonymous exhibition at the 2019 Lisbon Triennale. Inner Space is part of broader research that we are conducting for a few years through this website, our practice and teaching activity. We have defined Socks as “a nonlinear journey through faraway territories of human imagination”, and we wrote Inner Space to dig further into this expression, to try and understand what imagination, – specifically architectural imagination -, is and how it can take the form of an inhabitable territory. This attempt takes inspiration from the surrealist trope of turning mental realms into actual landscapes and from mnemonic techniques aimed at spatializing mental processes, like the “art of memory”.

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November 18th, 2019 · Tags: Art per se · Domestic space · Review · Space

Canada Needs A Change of Image

Eva Lewarne

Political correctness on steroids is the antithesis of greatness. If we are focused on grammar while reading poetry we will miss the essence and soul of the words. Political correctness not only kills the joy of life but it is a devise that tries to silence criticism. It is an invention of the uncreative mind to rein in and keep in check the creative ones. It is politically incorrect to be different, original, not tow the line or be yourself in favour of making the group look good. Political correctness is a form of making sure that no one stands out.

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Oktober 28th, 2019 · Tags: Art per se · Philosophy · Politics