Findings 47
On swimming pools, theories of color, and summer in bloom
“There are few things as powerful than the idea whose time has come.”
— Robert MacFarlane, Is the River Alive?
This month’s list of discoveries, with a lens toward the levity that the summer demands: a surrender to the senses, the moment, the present tense.
PS: If your summer traversing finds you in our part of the world, we hope you’ll join us for this season’s exhibition, Sentinel, a site-specific show of sculptural wooden totems by California artist Vince Skelly — presented outdoors, across our native oak savanna, from July 18-August 31, 2026.
LIFE IN COLOR:
A delightful website turning the day’s weather forecast into a corresponding Rothko painting.
In London: a pigment tour of the National Gallery, examining paints and the use of color throughout art history. (plus a conversation with pigment experts Rebecca Wallace and Pip Seymour).
SWIMMING STUDIES:
“Imagine floating in a brightly-colored and shimmering gold glass-tiled indoor pool decorated with eight statues of Roman gods, goddesses, and heroes"…” Lingering with the delightful absurdity of renting out the pool at the Hearst Castle.
Jump in: a state-by-state database of nearby swimming holes.
Evocative, soft saturated summer scenes from photographer Charlotte Lapalus
ABSTRACTION IN BLOOM
Happy to see this exhibition travel, featuring a collection masterful Impressionist landscapes that would be a treat to see in person. On view in Toronto this summer.
Love seeing the way photographer Nikole Herriott sees the world.
Always stunned by the hyperrealistic botanical paintings from artist Lauren Spencer King.
À LA CARTE:
This, played loudly with the windows open.
London: Did you know you can “order an object” from the V&A’s archives?!
Feels like the season for lingering in the “gloaming” hour.
File under: elegant ouchie; a collaboration we didn’t know would delight us.
Examining these elegant yet ad hoc silk pillows, “for floor lounging.”
From where we are: something to make you smile.