A diary of aesthetic loves

Autumn 2023

• Dima Srouji at the V&A

• Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

• Il Giardinetto

• Cafe Pascal 

• Floating organza

Summer 2022

• Cluny Brown by Lubitsch

• Drinking horchata de chufa

• Milena Busquet's laugh

• Conditori La Glace in Copenhagen

• Garden by the Sea, M. Rodoreda

• Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au

April 2022

• Spencer by Pablo Larraín

• Hot cross buns

• Edmund de Waal's studio

March 2022

• Fierce Poise by Alexander Nemerov

• The interior decor of The Nest by Sean Durkin

• Your Name by Makoto Shinkai

February 2022

• Caro and North American Painters in Gagosian.

• Licorice Pizza by Paul Thomas Anderson

• Helen Frankenthaler: Radical Beauty, exhibition

January 2022

• Bice Lazzari

• Pizza crumpets

• Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami

• The Souvenir Part II

December 2021

• The Power of the Dog by Jane Campion

October 2021

• Margaret Qualley on Maid. And Margaret Qualley, in general.

• On Grace and Dignity, Schiller (1793). "Beauty has worshippers, only grace has lovers", p.369.

• Haley Blais' To Good lyric video

• Waldermassude

• Adding syrup to a pot of popcorn kernels

September 2021

• Ghostly Kisses 

• Paul Desmond and Audrey's favourite song

• Second Place by Rachel Cusk

July 2021

• Agua y Jabon by Marta D. Riezu

May 2021

• Howard's End by E.M. Forster (1910).

• Zadie Smith on Forster.

April 2021

• La Vírgen de Agosto by Jonás Trueba

• A Promising Young Woman by Emerald Fennell.

• C. Tangana's Tiny Desk Concert

March 2021

• Miss Lonely Hearts by Nathaneal West (1933)

• Babe Paley

• Rigoberta Bandini's concert at Museo Thyssen

February 2021

• Corita Kent's art

• All the Vermeers in New York by Jon Jost

January 2021

• Fleur Jaeggy, El Ángel de la Guarda.

• Vida Yao,  Grace and Alienation Philosophers' Imprint, 20:16 (2020), 1-18.

• A 1972 video of Helen Frankenthaler talking about beauty.

• Crodino, the Italian bitter aperitif.