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Ingressi di Milano: the pumping heart and veins of Italian wealth shows glamorous eclectic inner architectural taste

Ingressi di Milano: the pumping heart and veins of Italian wealth shows glamorous eclectic inner architectural taste

The entrance to a building, be it a home, an office, atelier, studio or an art museum makes a statement to anyone finding their way in here. But what if ...
Discussing Languages of Truth in the essays by Salman Rushdie

Discussing Languages of Truth in the essays by Salman Rushdie

Truth can be the mother of common interest, but there is a glitch, well a few and its enemies know... Truth is a powerful asset. Through either — art and ...
The Moon: her, the mirror of light in the darkness of cyclic renewal

The Moon: her, the mirror of light in the darkness of cyclic renewal

The Moon has fascinated humanity ever since our eyes opened to the changing, cyclic pattern outside in our natural world. From the ancient Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Egypt, China, India, from the ...
Gertrude Stein: life of the greatest woman in art of the 20th century

Gertrude Stein: life of the greatest woman in art of the 20th century

Gertrude Stein was a muse of the most intriguing men and women of the first half of the 20th century. Either declared or behind the scenes string puller, those she ...
Naoshima and Lee Ufan: expressive interconnection "exalting the self and the other"

Naoshima and Lee Ufan: expressive interconnection “exalting the self and the other”

Lee Ufan nudges you to see what you normally do not see. As in meditation, his work is not about ideas but rather transcendence of the self. The philosophical artworks ...
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The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

Feeling, emotions and communication are not just human and some higher animal distinctions, trees do have something like a nervous system and so they react and talk. In The Hidden ...
Forest Bathing by Dr Quing Li: BETTER MIND, MOOD AND HEALTH FROM THE FOREST

Forest Bathing by Dr Quing Li: BETTER MIND, MOOD AND HEALTH FROM THE FOREST

The Japanese mindfulness practice shinrin-yoku, known in the West as forest bathing, fascinates scientists as much as wellness devotees. Like with anything enhancing our health and happiness, the literature on ...
SILENCE In the Age of Noise: meeting the experience of Erling Kagge

SILENCE In the Age of Noise: meeting the experience of Erling Kagge

The phone is ringing, alerts blinking and vibrating, buzzer banging, cars growling, and neighborhood construction drills into our lives constantly activated through civilisation's disruptive sounds. We get quite upset by ...
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Creativity and Taoism: A Study of Chinese Philosophy, Art and Poetry by Chung-yuan Chang

Truth is timeless. Creativity and Taoism was originally published half a century ago, yet its newest edition published by the London-based Singing Dragon timely reminds us how ancient Chinese philosophy ...

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