Ferran Adria’s innovation on display at the Museum of Science

If, like most foodies, you read a lot about celebrity chef Ferran Adrià but never had a chance to dine at elBulli restaurant in Spain, the Museum of Science is about to offer you a valuable substitute course. A new temporary exhibit, “Innovation in the Art of Food: Chef Ferran Adrià,” opens Feb. 15. …READ […]

Artist Christopher Boffoli lets the Food Star in Exhibit, Book Photos

Lynn Lieu, The Desert Sun Workers gently pull rubies the size of men from their resting places while two supervisors discuss plans for the massive mine. “It was a hight-paying union job despite the lack of required skills,” the photo caption reads.”Bit you has to know someone just to apply.” … READ MORE

Watch Chefs Discuss Art at the Art Institute of Chicago

Paula Forbes, Eater.com As part of their Art and Appetite exhibit, the Chicago Art Institute posted videos of chefs discussing food-related works from the collection. The exhibit just ended last week, but you can still catch Paul Kahan inspecting a 19th century porcineograph (that’s a pork map) or Graham Elliot looking at the work of […]

Tapas: Small Bites of Spanish Design

Maura Judkis, The Washington Post Spanish culinary design is full of jokes, but that’s all the more reason to take it seriously: As a new exhibition at the former Spanish ambassador’s residence demonstrates, the wit and whimsy of Spanish cuisine have driven innovations in food culture around the world … READ MORE

Da Bao: Take Out Food as Cross Cultural Exchange

Kevin Griffin, The Vancouver Sun Art made from hundreds of ceramic Chinese soup spoons is one of the works in an exhibition that uses the idea of take out food as a stand in for recent cultural changes in China and among the Chinese diaspora in Canada and around the world … READ MORE

Art, Food, Justice

Jacob Miller, SouthCoast Today The Food Research and Action foundation found that, one in six Americans struggle with hunger leading anti-hunger initiatives to grow increasingly. Through art, SouthCoast Serves is raising awareness and funds for local food pantries with the opening of the Art, Food, Justice Exhibit … READ MORE

Food for Thought

Judith H. Dobrzynski, The Wall Street Journal ‘Food, glorious food . . . magical food, fabulous food, beautiful food.” Those lyrics from “Oliver!” apply to many of the works on view in “Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture and Cuisine” at the Art Institute of Chicago … READ MORE

The art of the edible

Megan Backhouse, The Border Mail Slotted between the de Kooning bronze and the Leger mosaic in the NGV sculpture garden is an art installation of a different kind. It changes daily, needs watering and is fit for eating. Composed of edible plants growing out of vessels concocted from former advertising banners, concrete and plastic, this […]

See Food: Contemporary Photography and the Ways We Eat

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

Eat Your Art: There's a Feast Going on at Blaffer Art Museum

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

Artists use food as a metaphor for life

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

At the Art Institute's new exhibit "Art and Appetite," you are what you paint yourself eating

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