This is the year of black — black wallpaper, black painted rooms, black kitchen cabinets. Louise Nevelson would have been ecstatic. It’s dramatic, of course, but can a trend be artistic? Trends, by definition, follow in the wake of something created two steps ahead of them so we are co-opting someone else’s creative statement by chasing them. Some of the coolest interiors I’ve ever seen were imagined by fine artists and not interior designers, because artists govern themselve