Houston Center for Photography Our appetite for food imagery is voracious. The popularity of cooking programs, foodie blogs, and pictures of food on social media reflects some of the ways our current encounters with food and food issues have become increasingly visual … READ MORE
Holly Williams, The Independent It’s a necessity, a pleasure, and as key to art as it is to life. From sumptuous still lifes to signature dishes in cult TV, food sustains many of our great cultural works. It can persuade, romance or celebrate; it can nourish and comfort. And it
Kelly Klaasmeyer, Houston Press In 1932, F.T. Marinetti penned the Futurist Cookbook, a work that decried pasta; stated that perfume should accompany food; recommended cork, sandpaper, sponge and felt-covered pajamas for dinner guests; and introduced the «polyrythmic salad,» which diners cranked out of a box … READ MORE
Molly Glentzer, Chron Thanksgiving dinner might be an entirely different game if you tied your guests to the table and asked them to feed each other. Or if you handed them a menu whose offerings included «rock varieties smothered in pine needles» and «fillet of Southern California beach.» … READ MORE
Michael Gebert, Chicago Reader The Art Institute of Chicago’s exhibition «Art and Appetite: American Painting. Culture and Cuisine,» which opens Tuesday, bills itself as the first exhibit to look at American depictions of food as scholars have looked at art depicting food from other cultures … READ MORE
Booth Moore and Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times It was an evening to die for. On Saturday, British jewellery designer Stephen Webster hosted a provocative event mixing contemporary art and food in the upstairs gallery above his Rodeo Drive store … READ MORE
Kyle MacMillan, Chicago Sun-Time With “Top Chef” and at least two dozen other restaurant and cooking shows on television, an explosion of farmers markets and culinary festivals and surging interest in organic farming, local sourcing and craft beers, the United States has become a food-crazed country … READ MORE
The Star Online It’s food, glorious food from the organisation of Britain’s top culinary creatives. The Experimental Food Society Spectacular 2013 is on.The Spectacular, an annual culinary arts event in its fourth year, will comprise a two-day exhibition at London’s Truman Brewery and a series of “Food & Fragrance”-themed banquets at
Elsa Säätelä, The Daily Meal Spain’s new international traveling exhibition, «Tapas — Spanish Design for Food,» makes its U.S. premiere in Miami from Nov. 9 to Dec. 15. The art exhibition, which combines food, design, and Spanish culture, is set to be on display in Miami for slightly more than
The Decorah Newspapers The Pepperfield Project will host a fine-dining evening of rare foods from around the nation Saturday, Nov. 16.Based upon Gary Nabhan’s book, «Renewing America’s Food Traditions – Saving and Savoring the Continent’s Most Endangered Foods,» rare varieties from every region of the country were grown this summer
The Garden City News Friends of the Garden City Public Library will sponsor a free 1- hour illustrated lecture “Food In Art” with Nassau County Museum of Art docent Evelyn Silver on Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 2:00pm at the Garden City Public Library located at 60 Seventh St., Garden
Leanne Rinne, Belfast Telegraph The edible art show and cake shop is entitled ‘Feed The Beast’ and is supported by The Kraken Rum. The shop is open from the 25th to 28th October at The Rag Factory in Brick Lane and is full of weird and wonderful cakes designed to
Sean Keane, Kilkenny People Thousands of food lovers from all over Ireland converged on Kilkenny this weekend for the biggest and tastiest Savour Kilkenny Food Festival to date.The rain did little to dampen the spirits of foodies who enjoyed a feast of menus, and the opportunity to dine in some
Matt Goulding, Roads & Kingdom KYOTO, Japan—The meal begins simply, almost religiously: a bowl of rice, a plate of pickles, a pot of green tea. Pour the tea over the rice and take a sip, then pinch a half moon of daikon between your chopsticks. Later comes a plate of
Visual Arts News Besk, Broad Way World This season, the Art Institute of Chicago invites visitors to feast their eyes on the rich tradition of food in American art with the opening of the major exhibition Art? and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine.Exploring the many meanings and interpretations of
Victor D. Infante, Telegram Cirque du Noir has become, in its way, a bit of a flashpoint for the Worcester arts scene — a bravura Halloween party with an all black or costumes-only dress code, a chance to see work by an eclectic combination of local artists in different disciplines,
