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
PRWeb Chocolate & Cake is revolutionizing the cake industry by merging masterful cake art with the best work of gourmet chocolatiers. B&K Chocolate & Cake got their start working for Lady Gaga, creating personal edible art gifts that were shipped nationwide … 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
Agnes Kegl, Express Do you know the favourite foods of Sophie Ellis Baxtor, Brian May, Noel Gallagher or Juliette Lewis? Food artist Patrice de Villiers’ new exhibition launches this Thursday and showcases an anarchic rock n’ roll approach to food photography … READ MORE
News Channel 20 Folks are fighting hunger here at home and across the globe — from inside local businesses. Throughout Springfield you’ll see paintings that contain small white marks representing a grain of rice. For each mark, one meal is donated through the World Food Programme … 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
Dwight Garner, The New York Times ‘Anything That Moves,’ on Food Culture, by Dana Goodyear. A book, about being a wallflower at the American food orgy, won me over on its second page. That’s where she admits that, as a kid in the back of the family station wagon, she
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
Amy Augustine, The Boston Globe On a mission to document the stories of everyday food makers, two 25-year-olds spent their summer giving new meaning to the term “movable feast,” making a 15,000-mile pilgrimage in a beat-up van. Brad Jones and Chris Maggiolo, students in the Master of Liberal Arts in
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
Abby Scalf, Daily Herald Vesna Boscovic believes art can transcend geographic boundaries.Wanting to give artists an opportunity to exchange, promote and earn international recognition for their work across continents, she created an organization called La Citadelle Artistic Association … READ MORE
Andy Battaglia, The Wall Street Journal The Surrealist painter René Magritte did his best to subvert and confuse, setting his sights on everything from the meaninglessness of painting pipes to the strangeness of wearing shoes. But dinner too? … READ MORE
