The Sunday Digest 124
"Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill."
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Sunday Read › David Hockney Just Keeps Painting
by Arthur Lubow for W Magazine
There are two specific coffee table books that I remember constantly paging through as a kid: The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker and David Hockney: A Perspective. Both featured art that a child wasn’t used to seeing in a museum, and both probably went completely and utterly over my head in terms of a lot of their meanings.
If I’ve learned anything about nostalgia as I get further away from those days of paging through, it’s that I don’t think Hockney’s work will ever appear uninteresting to me. From his color to his composition to his subjects, there’s simply something about his work that just *feels* like a Sunday.
Here’s an excerpt:
Like his hero, Picasso, Hockney has managed to create a prodigious quantity of acclaimed art while maintaining a public persona that enjoys brand-name recognition. A celebrity since his mid-20s, he dyed his dark hair blond and wore oversize round eyeglasses, guilelessly crafting a look that distinguished him from the crowd. Shunning plain clothes, he opted for checks, tattersalls, plaids, and, especially, stripes. His socks were brightly colored and mismatched. A cigarette was never far from his lips.
Read in full here.
The Sunday Haiku: “The seatbelt sign is on.”
A large iced coffee
seemed like a good idea
until it wasn’t.
New Episode › Retail Therapy 108: Vacation Shirts and Microtrends
The vacation shirt from White Lotus that everyone was talking about (and why we're at a crossroads with vacation shirts in general), why Gen Z is getting tired of microtrends popping up everywhere, the Saltburn bathtub goes up for auction, Canoe Club x Beams Plus suit collab, a new segment called "Talk Me Out of It," wishlist items, and more.
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