05/08/2026
A few images from this month’s Oval newsletter.
Part update, part journal. New cafés, grocery stores, and places to find our coffee, along with a few thoughts from nearly two decades spent around coffee and the culture surrounding it.
This month includes a piece on encountering coffee inside museums and art collections, not in the café, but in the work itself. Coffee appears constantly in paintings, objects, sculpture, and design. Once you start noticing it, it becomes difficult to stop.
One work that especially stayed with me was Jannis Kounellis’ Untitled (Scales and Coffee) at Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring.
We spend a great deal of time thinking about coffee as flavor, but also as atmosphere, ritual, memory, work, aesthetics, travel, and daily life. The cup itself is only part of it.
A full day usually goes into writing and assembling these newsletters. We consider them central to what we do.
Full journal entry linked in bio.