CULTURE Archives - Reinventing Home

A guide to the well-lived life. Reads like Brainpickings for the home, covering everything from relationships and culture to our place in the natural world.

Poetic and inspiring. You'll want to polish a table until it glistens, fill your living room with roses, and thank the house for nurturing your dreams and hopes.

Explores the ancient traditions of caring for the hearth while considering our modern challenges of rootlessness, lack of time, and daily stress. A hymn to our search for home---wherever we can find it.

Found in Translation

How does an artist adapt to a new country? Sara Evans explores Gustave Baumann’s move to New Mexico and his woodcuts from the 1930s in a lavish new book from Rizzoli.

Home — It’s Complicated

German cabaret artist Anna Depenbusch explores why we leave home and what draws us back. Frank Beck introduces her haunting songs.

Art and Memory

The paintings in Leo Tadek’s home are a memoir of his marriage, his life in Belgium and in Moscow — and they also double as a tour of European history.

The Poetry of Place

Frank Beck considers how our songs of youthful wandering give way to the poetry of marriage and belonging.

Our Once and Future Home

Why are we so nostalgic for the comforts of home? How are we reinventing it as an intellectual salon, a mindful sanctuary, a hub of creativity and commerce? We propose a unified theory of home that shows how this place shapes every aspect of our lives.

The Society of Things

What does it mean to fall in love with a sofa, a painting, a kitchen table or a vase? The world grows a little kinder when we have an I-Thou relationship with our possessions and enter the society of things.

Living with Art

A painting on the wall, or a piece of sculpture standing on a table asks you to interact with the sensibility of the artist. If you look at it, a work of art will say, “I’ve got a distinctive way of viewing the world and I want you to see things my way, at least for a few minutes!”

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