Tag Archives: Food

A Fat Brown Babe’s Guide to Exposure (in Five Acts)

by Virgie Tovar | Jul 5, 2016

A Fat Brown Babe’s Guide to Exposure (in Five Acts)

by Virgie Tovar | Jul 5, 2016

Virgie Tovar delivers a powerful proclamation against our patriarchal society’s demand to be thin.

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Gastro-Vision | The Best in Food-Art 2012

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 21, 2012

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Gastro-Vision | The Best in Food-Art 2012

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 21, 2012

Writers Megan Fizzel and Andrew Russeth join Nicole Caruth for a look at the year’s best food-art projects.

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Gastro-Vision | Anti-Cancer Cooking in a Post-Hurricane Sandy World

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 16, 2012

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Gastro-Vision | Anti-Cancer Cooking in a Post-Hurricane Sandy World

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 16, 2012

Nicole Caruth looks at two recent projects by Beatriz da Costa, both part of Art, Environment, Action! at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons.

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Gastro-Vision | Lucy + Jorge Orta: Food-Water-Life

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 19, 2012

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Gastro-Vision | Lucy + Jorge Orta: Food-Water-Life

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 19, 2012

Nicole Caruth on Lucy + Jorge Orta, whose first major traveling exhibition “Food-Water-Life” is now up at Tufts University Art Gallery in Boston.

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Gastro-Vision | Supersonic (After Cage)

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 21, 2012

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Gastro-Vision | Supersonic (After Cage)

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 21, 2012

Nicole Caruth on Lisa Myers’ and Autumn Chacon’s sound and video show “Noise Cooking,” now on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Double Or Nothing: An Interview with Serkan Ozkaya

by Elizabeth Wolfson | Aug 17, 2012

Double Or Nothing: An Interview with Serkan Ozkaya

by Elizabeth Wolfson | Aug 17, 2012

What do Michelangelo’s “David” and a piece of fusilli pasta have in common? Read Elizabeth Wolfson’s interview with Turksih artist Serkan Ozkaya to find out.

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Gastro-Vision | Summer Round Up

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 27, 2012

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Gastro-Vision | Summer Round Up

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 27, 2012

Nicole Caruth looks at six NYC-area exhibits that provide treats for the eyes during the dog days of summer.

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Gastro-Vision | Absinthe and the Art World

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 15, 2012

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Gastro-Vision | Absinthe and the Art World

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 15, 2012

Nicole Caruth looks at Marc Latamie’s solo exhibition at The Americas Society, which touches on the complex cultural and somatic histories of absinthe.

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | In Search of Eve Babitz

by Carol Cheh | May 25, 2012

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | In Search of Eve Babitz

by Carol Cheh | May 25, 2012

Eve Babitz is more than just the nude woman famously photographed playing chess with Duchamp; she is an influential writer whose books are now much-coveted items.

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Gastro-Vision | Queer Cakes for a Country Cookout

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 20, 2012

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Gastro-Vision | Queer Cakes for a Country Cookout

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 20, 2012

Jacolby Satterwhite’s multi-media project “Country Ball” merges the practices of “insider” and “outsider” artists: he incorporates drawings made by his mentally ill mother, Patricia.

Pirohi!

by Lisa Anne Auerbach | Mar 19, 2012

Pirohi!

by Lisa Anne Auerbach | Mar 19, 2012

Guest blogger Lisa Anne Auerbach visits Los Angeles artist Daniel Marlos, a photographer who makes quilts, gardens, and delicious Pirohi dumplings.

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Gastro-Vision | Watching What You Eat

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 16, 2012

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Gastro-Vision | Watching What You Eat

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 16, 2012

In the U.S., obesity and food-related illnesses are serious problems–so do museums have a responsibility to raise issues about food?

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Gastro-Vision | Iraqi Cuisine Goes Mobile

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 17, 2012

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Gastro-Vision | Iraqi Cuisine Goes Mobile

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 17, 2012

Artist Michael Rakowitz’s “Enemy Kitchen (Food Truck)” is a roving eatery where local Iraqi cooks and US veterans of the Iraq war serve meals to the public.

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Gastro-Vision | Simone Leigh and the Fruits of Her Labor

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 20, 2012

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Gastro-Vision | Simone Leigh and the Fruits of Her Labor

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 20, 2012

Leigh’s exhibition at The Kitchen uses iconographic food forms–watermelon, plantains–to make ironic reference to postcolonial cultural narratives.

Gastro-Vision | It Was a Sweet Year

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 23, 2011

Gastro-Vision | It Was a Sweet Year

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 23, 2011

Think sweets are just for kids? Think again: Caruth surveys ten memorable food art projects from 2011 that take a cutting-edge approach to the dessert genre.

Gastro-Vision | Performing Cotton Candy in a Land of Cockaigne

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 23, 2011

Gastro-Vision | Performing Cotton Candy in a Land of Cockaigne

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 23, 2011

  Will Cotton’s candy and pastry-filled landscapes have come to life in recent years, taking the form of a posh pop-up bakery in 2009, and a year later, forming the …

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Gastro-Vision: On Bottle Poppin

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 31, 2011

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Gastro-Vision: On Bottle Poppin

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 31, 2011

Artist-designer Tahir Hemphill is gathering quirky facts about popular culture via Hip-Hop Word Count, his searchable directory of over 40,000 hip-hop songs. If you’ve ever wanted to know the education level …

What Is To Be Done?* Conversations, Commerce, and Collaborations

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 17, 2011

What Is To Be Done?* Conversations, Commerce, and Collaborations

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 17, 2011

Canceled: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China, presented at The Smart Museum of Art in Chicago in 2000, was a metaphorical representation of It’s Me, a 1998 Chinese experimental art exhibition that was …

Encounters with Generosity, Cooperation, and Community

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 10, 2011

Encounters with Generosity, Cooperation, and Community

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 10, 2011

The unpredictable and often ephemeral encounters that occur when art, community, audience, and ideas intersect are what excite me most about working with artists. For my last project at the …

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Gastro-Vision | Picture Perfect

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 19, 2011

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Gastro-Vision | Picture Perfect

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 19, 2011

Mainstream cookbooks tend to present a particular style of photography: food spreads done up like the models of fashion magazines. Stylized still lifes, cropped, color saturated, and Photoshopped look too perfect …

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Gastro-Vision | Gone Shrimping!

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 15, 2011

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Gastro-Vision | Gone Shrimping!

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 15, 2011

Forrest Gump was one of those rare films that changed the way people think about random everyday stuff, from a box of chocolates to a new pair of sneakers to …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Serkan Özkaya

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jul 1, 2011

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Serkan Özkaya

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jul 1, 2011

Serkan Özkaya is a contemporary conceptual artist based in Istanbul, Turkey, and New York City. His work deals with topics of appropriation and reproduction and it typically operates outside of …

Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture

Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco Part 2

by Victoria Gannon | Jun 7, 2011

Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture

Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco Part 2

by Victoria Gannon | Jun 7, 2011

New relationships are often built over food. We sit down to share a bowl of soup together and rise knowing each other better than before. But food’s not just a …

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Gastro-Vision | Out of the Mouths of Babes

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 13, 2011

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Gastro-Vision | Out of the Mouths of Babes

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 13, 2011

Miriam Simun’s The Lady Cheese Shop, installed at Michael Mut Gallery in New York for four days between April and May, served up three different types of cheese at its opening …

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Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco

by Victoria Gannon | May 3, 2011

Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture

Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco

by Victoria Gannon | May 3, 2011

One hundred feet below the Starbucks and suits of San Francisco’s financial district, Grubhub.com’s posters beckon from the BART station walls. The online food delivery service offers every kind of …

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Gastro-Vision | On Soup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 18, 2011

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Gastro-Vision | On Soup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 18, 2011

Rare is the occasion when people talk about food in art without someone uttering (or at least thinking) the name Rirkrit Tiravanija. Known as “the artist who cooks,” Tiravanija began to eschew …

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Gastro-Vision: How Do You Like These Apples?

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 18, 2011

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Gastro-Vision: How Do You Like These Apples?

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 18, 2011

Any mention of The Boston Tea Party today is likely to evoke thoughts of the current political movement, Glenn Beck, and Sarah Palin. That might soon change with the urban …

How Much Does Corn Matter? Glory and Humility in the Work of Eduardo Villanes

by Dorota Biczel | Jan 27, 2011

How Much Does Corn Matter? Glory and Humility in the Work of Eduardo Villanes

by Dorota Biczel | Jan 27, 2011

As I am grieving the disappearance of the Minimalist from the pages of the New York Times, I am also pondering Mark Bittman’s statement from his farewell column, “the continuing …

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Gastro-Vision: Martha Rosler’s Kitchen Mise-en-Scène

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 21, 2011

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Gastro-Vision: Martha Rosler’s Kitchen Mise-en-Scène

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 21, 2011

In 2003, the Whitechapel Gallery in London invited Martha Rosler to recreate her classic video Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975) as a live performance. She accepted the invitation by holding …

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Gastro-Vision: The Best in Food-Art 2010

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 17, 2010

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Gastro-Vision: The Best in Food-Art 2010

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 17, 2010

From cotton candy rooms to painterly cakes, meaty dresses to pork rind sculpture, pickle portraiture to animated toast, this year was chock-full of good “food-art” — food inspired by art …

Connecting – Part 4: All spin of one kind or another

by Damien James | Dec 13, 2010

Connecting – Part 4: All spin of one kind or another

by Damien James | Dec 13, 2010

Errol Morris said at a Chicago Humanities Festival Q&A in 2006, on the iconography of Abu Ghraib, that human stupidity is one of the only things he really believes in, …

Connecting – Part 3: Ceci n’est pas une Twinkie

by Damien James | Dec 10, 2010

Connecting – Part 3: Ceci n’est pas une Twinkie

by Damien James | Dec 10, 2010

I asked Pamela Johnson about other people who had encountered the massive Girl Scout cookies or cheese and cracker Handi Snacks™, eager to know how they were received and processed …

Connecting – Part 2: Useful Junk

by Damien James | Dec 8, 2010

Connecting – Part 2: Useful Junk

by Damien James | Dec 8, 2010

Sometime in September of 2006, I came across the paintings of Pamela Michelle Johnson, vaguely oppressive canvases dominated by clouds of slate and steel gray, foregrounds indistinguishable from back, and expanses …

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Gastro-Vision: Food and Technology in an Art Lab

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 26, 2010

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Gastro-Vision: Food and Technology in an Art Lab

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 26, 2010

Last month, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York turned their main exhibition space into X-Lab, a “living” work space where the public can interact with Eyebeam’s fellows and …

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Contemporary Sculpture, How Sweet It Is

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 15, 2010

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Contemporary Sculpture, How Sweet It Is

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 15, 2010

Has Walter de Maria’s New York Earth Room ever made you crave brownies? Have you ever noticed how much Andy Goldsworthy’s Storm King Wall looks like a meandering Payday candy …

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Gastro-Vision: Back in the Kitchen

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 17, 2010

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Gastro-Vision: Back in the Kitchen

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 17, 2010

The Museum of Modern Art could not have picked a better moment to mount Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen, an exhibition about the changing aesthetics and politics of …