This week, we’ve experienced healing through fine art, retro packaging design, and the dangers of too much historical preservation.

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Apparently, Monet paintings can cure hay fever and Georges Seurat is the patron saint of great skin…just a few of the healthy tidbits you’ll learn at New York’s new Art Healing Ministry.

John Cho Moore creates thoughtful and lovely bags, and Kai Hsing’s video beautifully documents the process.

Rem Koolhaas’s new exhibit questions our eagerness for historic preservation.

The retro trend hits packaging. 

From ABBA to ZZ Top, you can get your hands on signed prints of some of the most iconic pop culture photographs.

Finally the ladies join the world of foosball.

Image: Some of the new retro product packaging. (Boyle + Gardner for The Wall Street Journal)

This week, we’re enjoying Icelandic potato chips, sculptures that move on their own, and a mother’s first typography lesson to her daughter. 

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Michael Graves on cleaning, the color blue, and the “democratization of design.”

Great package design for new, purely Icelandic potato chips.

A designer gives her daughter her first typgoraphy lesson.

This kinetic sculpture is both really cool and kind of unnerving.

London, from A to Z.

The international arts community is calling for the release of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei with a petition started by the Guggenheim Foundation.