Stephen Webster's 'Last Supper': food, art, jewelry to die for
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
Rock n' rolls: Noel Gallagher and Sophie Ellis Bextor pose with favourite foods
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
Local Artists Fight Hunger
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
Cook of the Week: We all need a little food and art in our lives
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
Dinner in the Clouds
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
Artist Adds Sprinkle of Whimsy to Instagram With Fanciful Illustrations
Annie Colbert, Mashable Don’t limit your Instagram feed to selfies and food porn — a whole world of artistry and cleverness awaits your follow. Artists like khiesti, who creates mini masterpieces using everyday objects and a playful perspective. Sprinkles flitter like fairy dust and dried leaves give wings to googly-eyed monsters … READ MORE
Cupcake hobby turns into edible art
Beatrice Fantoni, The Windsor Star When life gave Sonia Klue lemons, she turned them into cupcakes.”I always take on challenges,” said Klue, who turned her cupcake-making hobby into a small business after losing her job with the government last March.She admits she was a little hesitant at first. “My husband said, ‘Let’s just do it.’” […]
Fun with food: gastronomic dining of the future
Oman Observer Swiss chef Denis Martin is serving a dessert with the aid of a balloon. The inflated balloon is placed in a container with liquid nitrogen to shrink it. Then the balloon is removed and slowly begins to expand at room temperature before it is punctured with a needle. The burst balloon reveals a […]
The Art of Death
Claudia Alarcón, The Austin Chronicle After the death of her mother in 2008, Kate Heyhoe found herself submerged in grief and in need of an outlet. “I knew she wouldn’t want me to be sad, she would want me to find a way to celebrate her life,” Heyhoe says. Inspired by the festive, colorful traditions […]
Emerging artist supporting countywide Empty Bowls event
Melissa Vander Plas, Hometown-Pages “Food, art and community – the trifecta of things that are most important to me,” said Courtney Bergey of Lanesboro regarding the upcoming “Fill More Bowls” event in Harmony. The third annual Empty Bowls fundraiser is expanding throughout the county this year, celebrating the work of local potters and ceramic artists […]
Eating in a Most Peculiar Way
Julie Lasky, The New York Times For her “Itinerant Gastronomy” project, the artist Mary Ellen Carroll stages intimate dinners in non-culinary-oriented settings. On Sunday, she will host the heart surgeons Dr. Bud Frazier and Dr. Billy Cohn, the chef Hugo Ortega and several other formidable figures in a vacant office at the top of the […]
The Politics and Pleasures of Food – call for artists in residency at Halle 14, Leipzig (Germany)
Within the framework of the upcoming exhibition “The Politics and Pleasures of Food” HALLE 14, centre for contemporary art, invites visual artists from around the world to send their applications for a residency fellowship (September 1 – November 31, 2013), which includes among others travel expenses. Deadline: 5 August…. READ MORE
