There is a lot of stuff on the internet, and in real life, and it’s hard to know what’s good. Every month, we’re sending a list of stuff we have encountered digitally or physically that is worthy of a recommendation. You’re welcome.
Eliza:
There’s an actual chocolate fountain (not edible) in the new Helen Chadwick retrospective at the Hepworth Wakefield.
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell is the book the show The Durrells (in Corfu if you’re in America) is based on, which I watch annually in January to help with my seasonal depression. The book is equally sunshine-filled.
Hannah Williams wrote a great piece interrogating the sketchy and maybe unfounded but still repeated claims that changes in the UK tax code are pushing the wealthy out of the city.
Biang biang noodles are my current obsession.
Vegetable-scented candles smell like summer in a way floral candles simply don’t.
David Hockney’s early work from the 60s is currently on view at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert in London and it’s wonderful, especially his blurry take on Ford Madox Brown’s The Last of England.
Bella:
All I have been reading lately are fantasy books. I just devoured the Fourth Wing series, and now I’m going back to where it all started, The Lord of the Rings. And, as it turns out, The Lord of the Rings is actually very cool.
It’s gazpacho season! My favorite savory smoothie.
This TikTok that explains why we should wear tabis that aren't by Margiela.
The Barcelona Miista sample sale.
Late night Instagram scrolling find: the painter Jacob Todd Broussard
Fernando Loyola's sweaty abstracts.
This article on Sophia Ricketts's pissing woman photos that she took in 1995. Also the pissing woman poster from the best shop ever, Climax Books.