1. Since moving into a new home late last year, I’ve been struggling to establish a look and feel for my new home office. I’ve been so focused on the pragmatic (patching, painting, repairing), I had become unaware the room’s austerity had begun to weigh upon me. Thus, the mycological-inspired art of Taehyoung Jeon has arrived as a sort of creative godsend, the near-psychedelic offerings injecting an explosion of shape and colors into the retinas down into the depths of my mushroom-minded obsessions. The question now is how many of these prints do I order"

2. What does a home require to evoke happiness" For Mr. Moriyama, it is a home that contains multitudes. Following the eponymous owner and occupant of the documentary MORIYAMA-SAN across a languorous week’s time, the viewer begins to find a quiet rhythm observing the universe contained within the miniature compound designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Ryue Nishizawa for the self-identifying recluse. The documentary seems to soak in time and space before blossoming into the sort of meditative imprint that will have you wondering, “What most matters in life"” The first film about “noise music, acrobatic reading, silent movies, fireworks, and Japanese architecture” isn’t for everyone, but for those who like to sink in rather than leap up into a story, it will likely inspire some lasting thoughts about the space you already occupy. Shout out to archi...