ARTS&FOOD

ART

VINCENT VAN GOGH'S

"REPETITIONS"

The Cleveland Museum of Art is presenting a ground-breaking exhibition exploring Van Gogh’s "répétitions", the term the artist used to describe his practice of creating additional variations of his own compositions. As the first exhibition to focus specifically on this unusual aspect of the artist’s practice, Van Gogh Repetitions seeks to make a valuable contribution to the scholarship on the artist while giving audiences a deeper understanding of his methods. The exhibition brings together more than 30 paintings and works on paper from some of the world’s most renowned collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo; the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; and the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Among the featured works are two versions of The Arlésienne (1888) and five versions of The Postman Joseph Roulin (1888-1889).

Curators comparing these two paintings by van Gogh:
Cleveland Museum of Art’s Large Plane Trees (left - detail)
& The Phillips Collection’s The Road Menders (right - detail),
was the inspiration for this exhibition.

Van Gogh Repetitions was initially inspired by the study of the close relationship between the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Large Plane Trees and The Phillips Collection’s The Road Menders, both dating from late 1889. The exhibition reunites the two masterpieces to invite deep, focused study of the similarities and differences between the first version, an étude d’après nature (study from nature), and the repetition. Two teams of curators and conservators subsequently conducted comparable analytical studies on repetitions in museums on both sides of the Atlantic.

Cleveland Museum of Art’s "Large Plane Trees" by Vincent van Gogh, 1889

"Our research reveals that Van Gogh was a far more complex and nuanced artist than the popular stereotype suggests," observes William Robinson, curator of Modern European Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. "By comparing works painted from life with the repetitions produced in the studio, the exhibition challenges the popular caricature of Van Gogh as an artist who always painted in a flurry of overheated emotion. Extensive technical analysis of the artist’s paintings, combined with a thorough reading of his letters, offers new insights into an artist who has been widely misportrayed in books, plays and films."

The Phillips Collection’s "The Road Menders" by Vincent van Gogh, 1889

Currently, there is considerable debate even among experts over how Van Gogh produced his repetitions. What has become clear is that Van Gogh’s practice of making repetitions was more extensive and vital to his creative process than is commonly recognized. He made these works from his early years in the Netherlands to his final months at Auvers-sur-Oise. While occasionally making them for practical reasons, such as producing additional versions to give to friends and fellow artists, he often exploited the opportunity to develop an idea or motif more fully. Over time, Van Gogh came to regard this activity as a creative endeavor in which the artist may adjust, refine or intensify a composition’s visual and emotional impact—a process comparable to a musician inflecting a score with personal interpretations, producing an original work of art with each new performance.

The Exhibition's Catalog

The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated, catalogue, published by Yale University Press in association with the Cleveland Museum of Art and The Phillips Collection. The catalogue features 125 color illustrations and considers the many unresolved issues and controversies surrounding Van Gogh’s repetitions. Technical and analytical examinations provide new insights into the artist’s working methods and approach to the creative process.

http://store.cmastore.org/vangore.html

stock #13650 $50.00

Catalog to the exhibition, "Van Gogh Repetitions"

125 Color Illustrations

200 pages

9.5” x 10”

Hardcover

Published 2013

(Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art & The Phillips Collection)

FOOD

The Passover Seder Plate

The Seder Plate

TODAY is the second day of the Jewish festival of Passover. The Jewish people celebrate Passover as a commemoration of their liberation from slavery in ancient Egypt (over 3,300 years ago) and their freedom as a nation under the leadership of Moses. The six elements on the Seder Plate are symbolic reminders for the Jewish people of this event.

Each of the items on the plate has special significance to the retelling of the story of the exodus from Egypt, which is the focus of this ritual meal. The other symbolic item used during the meal is a stack of three matzos (unleavened bread) on their own plate on the Seder table. Some place the Seder plate on top of the stack of matzos.

A table set for the seder,
including the six items on the seder plate,
salt water, matza, kosher wine
and a copy of the Haggadah for each person.

The traditional items on the Seder Plate are as follows:

- Maror and chazeret — Bitter herbs, symbolizing the bitterness and harshness of the slavery the Hebrews endured in Egypt. In Ashkenazi tradition, either horseradish or romaine lettuce may be eaten in the fulfillment of the mitzvah of eating bitter herbs during the Seder. Sephardic Jews often use curly parsley, green onion, or celery leaves.

- Charoset— A sweet, brown mixture representing the mortar used by the Hebrew slaves to build the storehouses or pyramids of Egypt. In AshkenaziJewish homes, Charoset is traditionally made from chopped nuts, grated apples, cinnamon, and sweet red wine. Sephardi recipes typically call for dates and honey in addition to chopped nuts, cinnamon, and wine.

- Karpas— A vegetable other than bitter herbs, which is dipped into salt water at the beginning of the Seder. Parsley, celery or boiled potato is usually used. The dipping of a simple vegetable bounces into salt water (which represents tears) mirrors the pain felt by the Hebrew slaves in Egypt. Usually in a Shabbat or holiday meal, the first thing to be eaten after the kiddush over wine is bread. At the Seder table, however, the first thing to be eaten after the kiddush is a vegetable. This leads immediately to the recital of the famous question, Ma Nishtana— "Why is this night different from all other nights?" It also symbolizes the spring time, because Jews celebrate Passover in the spring.

- Z'roa— Also called Zeroah, it is special as it is the only element of meat on the Seder Plate. A roasted lamb or goat shankbone, chicken wing, or chicken neck; symbolizing the korban Pesach (Pesach sacrifice), which was a lamb that was offered in the Temple in Jerusalem, then roasted and eaten as part of the meal on Seder night. Since the destruction of the Temple, the z'roa serves as a visual reminder of the Pesach sacrifice; it is not eaten or handled during the Seder. Vegetarians often substitute a beet, quoting Pesachim 114bas justification; other vegetarians substitute a sweet potato, allowing a "Paschal yam" to represent the Paschal lamb.

- Beitzah— A roasted hard-boiled egg, symbolizing the korban chagigah(festival sacrifice) that was offered in the Temple in Jerusalem and roasted and eaten as part of the meal on Seder night. Although both the Pesach sacrifice and the chagigah were meat offerings, the chagigah is commemorated by an egg, a symbol of mourning (as eggs are the first thing served to mourners after a funeral), evoking the idea of mourning over the destruction of the Temple and our inability to offer any kind of sacrifices in honor of the Pesach holiday. Since the destruction of the Temple, the beitzah serves as a visual reminder of the chagigah; it is not used during the formal part of the seder, but some people eat a regular hard-boiled egg dipped in saltwater as the first course of the meal.

+ Matzos — Included on the Seder table are a stack of three matzos (unleavened bread).

THE SIMPLE VERSION
FOR CHILDREN and the rest of us!
Below is Design Pocket's coloring book page to teach children about the Seder Plate.

Zeroah:

A Roasted Bone

This reminds us of the Pesach offering we used to bring in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.

Beitzah:

A hard-boiled Egg

This reminds us of the festival offering which was brought to the Holy Temple on Pesach.

Maror:

Horseradish Root

These bitter herbs symbolize the harsh suffering and bitter times we endured when we were slaves in Egypt.

Charoset:A mixture of chopped apple, walnuts and red wine. Ground up together, Charoset resembles bricks and mortar, reminding us how hard we were forced to work when we were slaves in Egypt.

Karpas: This can be a small slice of onion, boiled potato or sprigs of parsley. We dip the Karpas into salt water at the beginning of the Seder, representing the salty tears we cried when we were slaves.

Chazeret:

Romaine Lettuce

This is the second portion of bitter herbs which we eat during the Seder. This is eaten in a Matzah sandwich together with Maror.

Pottery Barn offers this LEAF SEDER PLATE.

Variant:

Orange. — In the early 1980s, Susannah Heschel began the tradition of an orange on the seder plate as a protest against the exclusion of homosexuals from Judaism.She found the orange to be a more appropriate symbol than a crust of bread that some Oberlin College students had suggested. There is a popular myth that this tradition was introduced in response to a rabbi who told a young girl that a woman belongs on a bimah as much as an orange on a seder plate. The orange is now looked at as a symbol of the fruitfulness of ALL Jews, including women and gay people.

(Source:Wikipedia for Seder text and photos except Pottery Barn's leaf plate.)

Until later,

Jack

ARTSnFOOD, is an online publication dedicated to "The Pursuit of Happiness through the Arts and Food."™ All rights reserved for all content. Concept, Original Art, Original Text & "Original or Assigned Photography" are © Copyright 2014 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. All photographs were taken and/or used with permission. Artworks © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.

A sign in the entry hall of the Park Ave. Armory,
the venue for ADAA's "THE ART SHOW" Spring, 2014.

Acquavella Gallery
Eugene Boudin, "Scene de plage a Trouville" 1864,
oil on board, 12.25" x 19"

Marian Goodman Gallery's
Booth at ADAA's THE ART SHOW, 2014
featured artist: Jeff Wall
transparencies in light boxes

Art Patrons in the Park Ave. Armory's Entry Hall,
which served as the venue for
ADAA's "THE ART SHOW", 2014.

A staircase off the entry hall
at the Park Ave. Armory.

One of the many vintage military paintings in the Park Ave. Armory's Entry Hall.

Alexander and Bonin Gallery's
Booth at ADAA's THE ART SHOW.

ART

ADAA's 26th

"ART SHOW"

SPRING 2014

in NYC

The Art Dealers Association of America again hosted it's Spring exhibition for 2014, at the historic Park Avenue Armory, 630 Park Ave., at 67th St., NYC.

Always titled "THE ART SHOW", this definitive statement, in many ways, sums up the breadth of the selection of artworks in this 26th edition of their exhibition. Founded in 1962, ADAA is comprised of 180 galleries from 30 cities. To be selected to join this group, a US gallery must have been in business for at least five years and be considered by their peers as promoting the highest standards of art connoisseurship, scholarship and ethical practice. To stay in the association the galleries must follow a strict set of guidelines for ethical practice. To find out more about ADAA go to their website: www.artdealers.org.

The ADAA's art fair offers the ultimate selection of art galleries in the USA and the artworks they display span art history. If you live in the United States and want to own a Calder, a Picasso, a Jackson Pollock, a Diebenkorn, a Warhol or even one of today's living contemporary masters these are the galleries to call first. All art comes with a known provenance. The Art Show is very much like walking through a museum of the best art in the world, with the exception everything is for sale, from thousands ($) to millions ($). This makes a stroll though this "museum-like exhibition" a very different fantasy - if you like something, you have the opportunity to take it home with you, if the price is right. As you take this virtual walk through the show, what masterwork would you buy to enjoy perminantly on your wall?

As patrons enter THE ART SHOW's exhibition hall, they were first greeted by the amazine work of the living artist Charles LeDray at Sperone Westwater Gallery's booth. LeDray work has just finished a traveling museum exhibition, organized by the Institute of Contemporay Art / Boston. LeDray's work is pictured first in the art below.

(LeDray, originally from the Seattle area, and now in his 50's, makes miniature objects, mostly sewn reproductions of clothes. He sews and constructs everything completely by himself including all of the fixtures and accessories which accompany the clothes - the hanging rack, clothes hangers, wall hooks, tools, cement bricks, oven mitts, ties, pegboard, etc. - are all perfectly fabricated by LeDray in his small scale. It is uncanny and you almost feel sorry for the artist and the strain his eyes must be going through. If you ever have a chance to see his work, you should go! LeDray's work was featured in a previous issue of ARTSnFOOD link: http://artsnfood.blogspot.com/2010/12/making-small-at-whitney-30-min-prep-no.html).

Now lets stroll through this Spring 2014 edition of ADAA's ART SHOW and experience the sophistication, the quiet atmosphere, the carpeted floors and felt wall coverings which when combined with the mostly upscale audience perusing these beautiful works makes for a wonderful day of exploring the Art World. The experience at THE ART SHOW is so different from other top-of-the-line New York art fairs, where the shear square footage, massive crowds, and difficulties getting to and from the venues often tempers the pleasure.

Relax and enjoy the 26th version of THE ART SHOW, 2014!

Charles LeDray, "Rainbow" 2012-2014 32" x 78" x 15.25", Sperone Westwater Gallery, NYC.

Charles LeDray, "Assemblyman" 2006-2014 25.5" x 16.875",
(compare the scale of items to the information card on the wall witch is about 2.5" x 4.5"),
Sperone Westwater Gallery, NYC.

Richard Diebenkorn, "Ocean Park" 1977,
Gouache, watercolor and collage, 18" x 11.5"
Van Doren Waxter / Eleven Rivington

Richard Diebenkorn, "Untitled" c.1959-64,
Gouache, ink and charcoal on paper
Van Doren Waxter / Eleven Rivington

Fairfield Porter, Katie in an Armchair, 1954,
Oil on canvas, 65.5" x 46", Hirschl & Adler

Fairfield Porter, Seated Woman, c.1942-43
Pencil on paper, 14" x 11", Hirschl & Adler

Below is an information card posted by Hirschl & Adler, about the artist, Fairfield Porter.

Fairfield Porter, "Jerry" 1955
Oil on canvas, Hirschl & Adler

Fairfield Porter, "Untitled" (Maine, Warehouses at Harbor) c. 1935-45
Watercolor, 12.5" x 22", Hirschl & Adler Modern

Fairfield Porter, Sunrise, 1974-75,
watercolor on paper, 30" x 22", Hirschl & Adler

Jeronimo Elespe, "A.T. Smoking"
Oil on aluminum 5.75" x 9.87" Van Doren Waxter Gallery

Jeronimo Elespe, "The Other Ways" oil on aluminum 4" x 4" Van Doren Waxter Gallery

Jeronimo Elespe, "Triple Room (4)" Van Doren Waxter Gallery

Jeronimo Elespe, detail top "Triple Room (4)"
Van Doren Waxter Gallery

Jeronimo Elespe, detail bottom "Triple Room (4)"
Van Doren Waxter Gallery

Koji Enokura, "Intervention No. 1, 1987
Acrylic on cotton, wood beam, 97 7/8" x 131 1/4"
Marian Goodman Gallery

Pierre Bonnard, "Marthe et son Chien assise devant une table", 1930
oil on canvas, Acquavella Gallery

Wayne Thiebaud, "Delta Farms", 2004, oil on board, Acquavella Gallery

Lucian Freud, "Small Figure"
c. 1983-84, Oil on canvas
8.79" x 13", Acquavella Gallery

Pierre Bonnard, "Apres le dejeuner", c.1920, oil on canvas
28 3/8" x 46", Acquavella Gallery

Alfred Leslie
"Gustav Von Aschenbach", 2013
digital painting using photography and tablet
Janet Borden, Inc.

Alfred Leslie
"Johnny Perry", 2013
digital painting using photography and tablet
Janet Borden, Inc.

Alfred Leslie
"Mademoiselle De Maupin", 2013
digital painting using photography and tablet
Janet Borden, Inc.

Alfred Leslie
"Miss Wonderly", 2012-14
digital painting using photography and tablet
Janet Borden, Inc.

Alfred Leslie
"Bill DeKooning in 1966", 2011
Janet Borden, Inc.

Bruce Nauman, "Untitled" head, 1989-90
Drypoint from one copper plate
17" x 19", ed. of 45

Wayne Thiebaud, "Drumstick Dinner", 2012
oil on canvas board, 14 7/8" x 29 7/8"
Acquavella Gallery

Cy Twombly, "Untitled" 1962
Oil, graphite and wax crayon on canvas
31.5" x 39.24"
Acquavella Gallery

Jeff Wall, "Diagonal Composition no. 2" 1998
Transparency in lightbox
Marian Goodman Gallery

Jeff Wall, "Pipe opening" 2002
transparency in lightbox
Marian Goodman Gallery

Josef Albers, "Duo B" 1968
machine engraved vinylite mounted on wood
9" x 16 3/4" edition of 30
Brooke Alexander, Inc.

Josef Albers, "Interlinear N 32, grey" 1962
Lithograph, edition of 10
Brooke Alexander, Inc.

Josef Albers,1 "Interlinear N 32, grey" 1962
Lithograph (detail), edition of 10
Brooke Alexander, Inc.

Ken Price, "Talisman to Avert Crashing" 1997
Watercolor, ink and guache on paper, 9" x 6"
Brooke Alexander, Inc.

Ken Price, "Untitled" bowl, 1991
Glazed ceramic, 3 1/4" x 11 3/4"
Brooke Alexander, Inc.

New paintings by Sarah McEneaney
Tibor de Nagy Gallery

Raymond Pettibon, "Untitled" 1984
ink on paper, 14" x 10 1/4"
Brooke Alexander, Inc.

Robert Kinmont, "26 Dead Animals," (detail) 1967-70
silver gelatin prints, ed. of 8
Alexander and Bonin Gallery

Tonico Lemos Auad at CRG Gallery, NYC

Tonico Lemos Auad
at CRG Gallery

Tonico Lemos Auad at CRG Gallery, NYC

Ann Hamilton portraits
featured at Carl Solway Gallery

Artist/Photographer
Ann Hamilton
directs her unique portrait commissions
being taken at
Carl Solway Gallery's booth
during the exhibition.

N.W. Indian Mask, Washburn Gallery, NYC

N.W. Indian Mask
Washburn Gallery, NYC

N.W. Indian Mask, Washburn Gallery, NYC

Plains indians, drawing on paper

(Source: All photography was taken for ARTSnFOOD with the permission of the galleries and the art fair management.)

FOOD

A Great Homemade

Pizza Crust

Ingredients

- 1 Cup plus 1 tbs mix of all purpose flour

- 1 Cup plus 1 tbs mix of Italian grade "00" flour

- 1 tsp fine sea salt

- 3/4 tsp active dry yeast

- 1 tsp extra virgin olive oil

Instructions

- In a large mixing bowl, combine flours and salt

- In a small mixing bowl, stir together 1 cup of lukewarm tap water, the east and the olive oil, then pour it into the flour mixture.

- Mix and knead with your hands until well combined, (3 min) then let the mixture rest for 15 minutes.

- Knead rested dough for 3 more minutes.

- Cut into two equal pieces and shape each into a ball.

Place on a heavy floured surface, cover with a dampened cloth, and let rest and rise for 3 to 4 hours in the refrigerator.

- Remove the dough 30 to 45 minutes before you begin to make your pizzas

-Place each ball on a heavily floured surface and use your fingers to stretch it, then your hands to shape it into rounds or squares.

For Margarita Pizza

-Top with 3 Tbs of tomato sauce* and spread it evenly with the back of a spoon stopping 1/2 inch from the edges.

- Drizzle a little olive oil over the pie

- Break 2 3/4 oz of fresh mozzarella into large pieces and place these gently on the sauce.

- Scatter 4 or 5 fresh basil leaves over the top

- Using a pizza peel, slide the pie onto a HOT pizza stone (heat in oven, high heat, for 1 hr prior)

- Bake until the crust is golden brown and the cheese is bubbling (4 to 8 minutes in your oven on its hottest setting)

*Sauce: In food process blend whole drained canned tomatoes, a splash of olive oil and a sprinkle of salt. (refrigerate and left over sauce).

(Source: This recipe is an adaptation of a recipe form the New York Times Food Section, Wed. April 9, 2014, titled: "A Little Homework" by Sam Sifton.)

Until later,

Jack

Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) "The Bicyclers", Oil on board 9" x 12", Debra Force Fine Art

ART

"The Art Show"
2014
Part II
More art from the ADAA's
"The Art Show" 2014

The exhibition featured 34 thematic presentations and 38 solo artist booths. All of the masterworks were offered for sale by the participating 72, of the 170 ADAA member galleries, at THE ART SHOW produced by the Art Dealer's Association of America. (www.artdealers.org)

Georges Braque, Pace/MacGill Gallery

Fernand Leger, 1943, Pace/MacGill Gallery

Robert Indiana, "LOVE", Pace/MacGill Gallery

Alberto Giocometti, "Shoshanna", 1958, Pencil on paper, James Goodman Gallery

Barbara Kruger
"Untitled" (We are not made for each other) 1983,
photograph and type on paper 10" x 6.75",
Skarstedt Gallery

Felix Del Marle, "Composition futuriste- Passage d'artillerie" 1914
ink and gouache on paper, 8.5" x 12"
Adler & Conkright Fine Art

German Cueto, "Yelmo", 1935, painted iron
Adler & Conkright Gallery

Guy Pene du Bois (1884-1958), "Solitaire" 1943
oil on canvas, 30" x 25"
Debra Force Fine Art

Henri Matisse, "Head", 1936
Pen and ink on paper,
James Goodman Gallery

Joseph Cornell, "Untitled (Grand Hotel), 1950s
Box construction, 19" x 12.75" x 4"
James Goodman Gallery

Keith Haring, "A Pile of Crowns (for JM)" 1988, ink on paper
Skarstedt Gallery

Laurie Simmons, "The Walking Objects"
Salon 94

Lucian Freud, "Stephen Spender" 1940
Ink on paper, 8.5" x 5.75
Matthew Marks Gallery

Lucian Freud, "Pluto Aged Twelve", 2000, Etching
Matthew Marks Gallery

Milton Avery (1885-1965) "Sally", 1930
oil on canvas mounted on board, 22" x 14"
Debra Force Fine Art

Philip Evergood (1901-1973)
"The Future Belongs to Them" 1938-1953
oil on canvas mounted on board, 60" x 40"
Debra Force Fine Art

Philip Evergood (1901-1973)
"The Future Belongs to Them" 1938-1953 (detail)
oil on canvas mounted on board, 60" x 40"
Debra Force Fine Art

Picasso, "Nimes IV", 1965
James Goodman Gallery

Roxy Paine, "Untitled" (Dendroid Study-lightning) 2012
ink on paper, 30.25" x 22", Marianne Boesky Gallery

Roy Lichtenstein, "Study for Still Life with Pitcher and Flowers" 1973
pencil & colored pencil on paper, 3.5" x 5.25", James Goodman Gallery

Sonia DeLaunay, "Rhythme Colore", 1946
Oil on canvas, 69" x 59" Adler & Conkright Gallery

Julian Opie, portrait in mosaic tile, Barbara Krakow Gallery

Bortolami Gallery Booth - showing: Daniel Buren and Richard Aldrich

Richard Aldrich,
"Reality Painting #4"
(My Record Player)" 2012
oil, wax and pencil on linen, 84" x 58"
Bortolami Gallery

David Hockney, "Mark", 1971
Susan Sheehan Gallery

Reliquary Guardian Figure, Gabon, Africa,

wood with beaten bronze overlay

Donald Morris Gallery

Egon Schiele
"Elisabeth Lederer, Seated, with Hands Folded", 1913
Gouache and pencil on paper, 19" x 12.75"
Galerie St. Etienne

Franz Kline (1910-1962), "Untitled" c.1957,
ink & oil on paper, 11" x 8.5"
McKee Gallery

Gunther Uecker
"Dunkle Spirale (Dark Spiral)", 1970
Mnuchin Gallery

Gunther Uecker
"Dunkle Spirale (Dark Spiral)", 1970(detail)
Mnuchin Gallery

Galerie Lelong
Petah Coyne's Installation

Petah Coyne's Installation at Galerie Lelong

Artist Petah Coyne
with her installation
at Galerie Lelong's booth

Petah Coyne's Installation (inside) at Galerie Lelong

Jeanne Silverthorne, "Pins and Needles", 2013
5 5/8" x 3" x 3", edition of 10, McKee Gallery

Artist: Kehinde Wiley, 2014, 22 karat gold leaf and oil on wood paintings
40" x 24" x 2", Sean Kelly Gallery

Kehinde Wiley, "King and the High Priest" 2014,
22 karat gold leaf and oil on wood 40" x 24" x 2",
Sean Kelly Gallery

Artist Spencer Finch, "Cloud", clear sticky tape, James Cohan Gallery

Spencer Finch, "Cloud", clear sticky tape, James Cohan Gallery

Spencer Finch, "Cloud", (detail), clear sticky tape, James Cohan Gallery

Agnes Martin, "Desert" 1985, Mnuchin Gallery

Elie Nadelman
"Female Bust" c.1926-27
Galvano-plastique
Menconi + Schoeldopf

Elie Nadelman
"Kneeling Figure" c.1915
Black ink and pencil on paper
James Reinish & Associates

Elie Nadelman
"Seated Female Figure" c.1924
Black ink and pencil on paper
James Reinish & Associates

Ian Davis
"Inland" 2014
Acrylic on linen
Leslie Tonkonow Gallery

Lucy Williams
"Max Factor" 2013
mixed media
McKee Gallery

Milton Avery, Donald Morris Gallery

Paula Modersohn-Becker
"Portrait of the Artist's Sister"
oil on canvas, 13 3/8" x 10 3/8"
Galerie St. Etienne

Richard Diebenkorn
"Green", 1986, Aquatint
edition of 60
John Berggruen Gallery

Richard Diebenkorn
"Landscape with Three Trees", 1959
oil on panel, 9 5/8" x 11 7/8"
John Berggruen Gallery

Richard Diebenkorn
Untitled (Ocean Park), 1978
Mnuchin Gallery

Richard Stankiewicz
"untitled" 1970, 33.5" x 21" x 21"
James Reinish & Associates

Robert Watts, "Signature Balseballs" 1968-71
baseballs plexiglas and ink
Leslie Tonkonow

Sarah Anne Johnson
"Puzzel Pieces" 2013,
Chromogenic print with collage, (detail)
42" x 27 3/4"
Julie Saul Gallery

Sol LeWitt
Rhona Hoffman Gallery

Sol LeWitt, detail
Rhona Hoffman Gallery

Wayne Thiebaud
"Park Place study" 1992
oil and graphite on panel, 10 3/4" x 12 3/4"
John Berggruen Gallery

(Source: All photography of THE ART SHOW was taken for ARTSnFOOD with the permission of the galleries individually and the art fair management's press department.)

Use the link below to view
Part I of ARTSnFOOD's
ADAA Art Show 2014 coverage:

http://www.artsnfood.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-art-show-2014-nyc-presented-by-adaa.html

FOOD

Tuscan Soup

Ingredients:

1 lb mild Italian sausage

2 large russet baking potatoes, halved, then in 1/4" slices

1 large onion, diced

1/4 cup bacon bits

2 garlic cloves, minced

2 cups kale or swiss chard, chopped into 1" pieces

2 cans chicken broth (total 16 oz.)

1 quart water

1 cup heavy whipping cream

Directions:

- Chop or slice uncooked sausage into small pieces.

- Brown sausage in your soup pot.

- Add chicken broth and water to pot and stir.

- Place onions, potatoes, and garlic in the pot.

- Cook on medium heat until potatoes are done.

- Add bacon.

- Salt and pepper to taste.

- Simmer for another 10 minutes.

- Turn to low heat.

- Add kale and cream.

- Heat through and serve.

(Source: This recipe is an adaptation of several online recipes.)

Until later,

Jack

David Cooley, "Dreams of Unfamiliar Places", 40" x 30"
Acrylic, found fabric and resin on wood panel
Thinkspace Gallery, LA

David Cooley
"Dreams of Unfamiliar Places" (detail)
Thinkspace Gallery, LA

ART

SCOPE

Art Fair

Spring '14

NYC

Of all of the art fairs passing through New York City this Spring, SCOPE was one of the most enjoyable for their variety of fresh, never-seen-before art. The exhibition felt youthful compared with all of the very serious art being presented in New York City this Spring season.

SCOPE was held for its second year at NYC's historic old post office building, Moynihan Station (8th Ave. at 33rd St.), and returned with 68 international galleries under one roof. Much of the success of this show must go to new exhibitors’ relations director, Katelijne de Backer, formerly of The Armory Show.

Below we exhibit some highlights of SCOPE/Spring 2014.

Amy Sol, "Neptune's Cotton", Acrylic on Wood
Thinkspace Gallery, LA

Amy Sol, "Waiting After Dusk II"
9"x9", Graphite & Gouache on Cotton
Thinkspace Gallery, LA

Anders Scrmn Meisner, "Grown-ups dressed for sexy party"
Gouache on paper
Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen

Anders Scrmn Meisner, "My life as a Thundercloud",
Gouache on paper
Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen

Banksy, "Grumpy Truck"
enamel paint & grime on a delivery truck door
Art Now NY

Christian Lemmerz, "Vanitas", Marble, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen

Daniel B. Horowitz,
"Drawing of the day 44", mixed media, 2011,
L'Inlassable Galerie, Paris

James Nizam, (photograph)
"Wrought Iron Railing Covered
with 'Scotchlite' (reflective material)"
2013, Archival Pigment Print/fibre paper,
36" x 30", edition of 5,
also available 60" x 30" edition of 3,
Birch Contemporary

Know Hope, "Both Sides of The Big Blue",
mixed media on paper and wood panel with photographs,
Thinkspace Gallery, LA

Kwon Kyungyup, "Reverie",
18" x 21", oil on canvas,
Thinkspace Gallery, LA

Laure André
"Many pull actions",
image carved into convex glass + ink
Galerie Bertrand Gillig, France

Martin Bennett,
"When I Can No Longer Sell the World", 2013,
Acrylic on canvas, 42" x 30",
Birch Contemporary

Micah Lexier,
"Things Exist, Example No.__", 2011,
found object,
Birch Contemporary, Toronto

Micah Lexier, Diagram Sculpture (BEST), 2013,
aluminum, enamel paint, 45", 46" x 1/4",
Birch Contemporary

Micah Lexier, Diagram Sculpture (GOOD), 2013,
aluminum, enamel paint, 55" x 84" x 1/4",
Birch Contemporary

Niloufar Banisadr "Colors of Freud" (red) (white) (yellow)
print on Plexiglas, 110 x 73 cm, ed. of 3
55Bellechasse, Paris

Reinhard Voss, "Lake of ville-d'avray",
wood & mixed media, 29 x 17 x 6 cm, 2010,
L'Inlassable Galerie, Paris

Color Construction Painting
Thinkspace, Culver City

Wall Painting (Poem / Our Minor Refusals) Thinkspace Gallery, Culver City

Shelby Hanna
"An invitation to the early afternoon"
glass & table, 2012,
Golden Thread Gallery, UK

William P. Immer, "Re-image of old photo"
Aureus Contemporary,

William P. Immer, info card

Wayne Warren, "Golden Aspiration",
molded plastic and metal stand, edition of 13,
Long-Sharp Gallery

Stephen Mackey, "Bride of the Lake", Oil on panel, 2014,
Arcadia Contemporary

Speedy Graphito, "Master",
hand painted silkscreen (unique), on rag Vellum,
44.75" x 32.5",
Fabien Castanier Gallery, LA

Sasha Meret
Ceremonial Time Traveling Artifact
Sculpture - metal objects found in a kitchen,
Barbarian Art Gallery, Zurich

Sasha Meret, Sculpture - (detail spoons)
Barbarian Art Gallery, Zurich

Russel Young
"Marilyn Crying California" 2014,
Liquid gold, screen print on linen with diamond dust, ed of 10,
Long-Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis

RERO, "Nice Image"
Limited edition hand-painted multiple, ed of 8, Handmade paper,
Fabien Castanier Gallery, LA

Renee Farina
animal sculptures
Ca' d' Oro Galleria, Rome/Miami

animal sculptures
Ca' d' Oro Galleria, Rome/Miami

Paul Rousso, "A Beat Up 500", table top sculpture
mixed media on sculpted acrylic, 2013,
Arcadia Contemporary

Paola Margherita
"Siepe", sculpture, 3-D drawing on paper
White Room/ Capri

"Siepe" (detail)

My Dog Sighs
"abandoned spray can & paint"
Vertical Gallery, Chicago

Micka, "Chromatisme", 39" x 39"
Mixed media Plexiglas, 2011
Galerie Mark Hachem, Paris/NY

Michal Lukasiewicz, "Reflection
acrylic on canvas, 2014,
Arcadia Contemporary

Malcolm T. Liepke
Oil on canvas
Arcadia Contemporary

Jens Diercks, "Chair", 2011
chair pieces
disassembled & reassembled flat
42" x 22" x 4"
Beaux-arts des Ameriques, Montreal

Lorraine Pritchard
"Occurrence #2", 2012
Mixed Media on Washi Paper
12" x 12"
Beaux-arts des Ameriques, Montreal

Lorraine Pritchard
"Occurrence #4", 2012
Mixed Media on Washi Paper
12" x 12"
Beaux-arts des Ameriques, Montreal

Lorraine Pritchard
"Occurrence #5", 2012
Mixed Media on Washi Paper
12" x 12"
Beaux-arts des Ameriques, Montreal

Lorraine Pritchard
"Quirk #2", 2012
Mixed Media on Washi Paper
7.5" x 7.5"
Beaux-arts des Ameriques, Montreal

Lottie Davies, (detail of a photo)The Cynthia Corbett Gallery

Lottie Davies, (detail of photo)
"Viola as Twins" 2008, ed of 5
lambda print on aluminium
The Cynthia Corbett Gallery

Lorenzo Quinn, info "Chess Set table-Queen", Bronze/ Brass, edition of 8
Halcyon Gallery

Lorenzo Quinn, "Keeping me on my toes"
Halcyon Gallery

Lorenzo Quinn info card.

Sangsik Hong
"Mouth", Drinking straws, acrylic, Plexiglas
Krause Gallery, NY

Sangsik Hong
(detail) "Mouth"
Drinking straws, acrylic, Plexiglas
Krause Gallery, NY

Koh Sang Woo, "Arcadia"
James Freeman Gallery

Keira Rathbone, UK

"We're Speaking the Same Language"

Manual Typewriter Drawing - keys, inked ribbon, paper

(A UK vs US booth curated by Lori Zimmer & Moniker Projects)

Kazuhiro Tsuji
"ANDY" sculpture

platinum silicone, yak and human hair,

silicone paint, fiberglass, chrome & other mediums.

Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Kazuhiro Tsuji
"ANDY" 2 sculpture

platinum silicone, yak and human hair,

silicone paint, fiberglass, chrome & other mediums.

Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Karim Hamid, "portrait of a woman", Aureus Contemporary

Karim Hamid, "portrait of a woman & her dog", Aureus Contemporary

James Charles, "Pope of Pop"
Mixed Media on U.S. Currency, 2012, 8.5" x 12"
Art Now NY

Hiroko Tsuchida
"Fruit of Innovation"
(scissors, thread nipper assemble,
stainless steel, epoxy paste)
Gallery G-77, Kyoto

Hao Ni
"Fluctuation" 2014
ash and acrylic paint on steel
Yellow Peril Galleryu, Providence, RI

Hans Kotter
"Tunnel View - Rectangle, Down Under, Left Curved", 2012,
(refection shown is accidental)
Plexiglas, mirror, metal, color-changing LED lights & remote control
23.5 x 35.5 x 9 inches, edition of 3 + 2 ap
De Buck Gallery, NY

Greg Lamarche, graphic image

"We're Speaking the Same Language"

(A UK vs US booth curated by Lori Zimmer & Moniker Projects)

Fredrik Raddum
"Views on Spontaneous Human Combustion - Man"
Bronze
Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen

FC Sofia, "Domestic 200%" 2011
painted resin and gold plated metal
29 x 19 x 5.5 inches, ed of 4 + 1 ap.
De Buck Gallery, NY

FC Sofia, "Domestic 200%" 2011
painted resin with leather and stainless steel
23 x 17 x 6 inches, ed of 4 + 1 ap.
De Buck Gallery, NY

Eri Imamura, "Evolution in Reverse"
Seed beads, cut beads, 24k gold beads
antique Japanese Kimono textiles, wood, stuffing
20" x 27" x 3"
La Lanta Fine Art, Bangkok

Emil Alzamora, "Abedo"
Gypsum, iron patina finish on pedestal, 59" x 10" x 33"
Krause Gallery NY

Doppeldenk, Oil on Canvas
25" x 25"
Galerie Wolfsen, Copenhagen

David Schelnmann, "Stormtroopers", Aureus Contemporary,

David Scheinmann, "Elvis Marilyn", 2014, Aureus Contemporary

Andrew Myers's signature "Screw Paintings"
3-D dot paintings made with wood screws & paint
Lawrence Cantor Fine Art, LA

Andrew Myers
"Screw Paintings"
wood screws & paint
Lawrence Cantor Fine Art, LA

Daniel Ochoa, "Union Street Entrada", oil on canvas, 2012
Arcadia Contemporary

D.B. Horowitz
"I Confess", 2011, mixed media
L'Inlassable Galerie, Paris

Claire Shegog, Thousands of small figurines on a mirror
Aureus Contemporary

Claire Shegog, (detail)
small figurines on a mirror
Aureus Contemporary

Ayline Olukman, detail of digial print
Galerie Bertrand Gillig, France

Avner Sher, "Sacrifice", 2006
scratching, etching & engraving on cork & wood
47" x 31"
Glerie Koninklijke Villa, Oostende

"Portrait with Paper Hair", Aureus Contemporary

Aron Wiesenfeld
"Vigil No. 5", charcoal on paper, 2013,
Arcadia Contemporary

Aron Demetz, Stubborness of white, 1972,
Bronze, ed of 6, 38.5" x 17.7" x 9.1"
Galleria Doris Ghetta

Aron Demetz
"Robots" (harmony & conflict between man & nature),
wood with charring, erosion and carving,
Galleria Doris Ghetta

Aron Demetz, "Robots"
(see above - opposite side)
Galleria Doris Ghetta

Ardan Ozmenoglu, "Rainbow Franklin"
57" x 48", mixed media on post-it notes
Galerie Mark Hachem, Paris/NY

Ardan Ozmenoglu,
(detail) "Rainbow Franklin", 57" x 48",
Mixed medis on post-it notes
Galerie Mark Hachem, Paris/NY

Antonio Macedo
"untitled", Oil on canvas
Cordeiros Galeria, Portugal

Andy Burgess
"Stahl House No. 5" 2013, Oil on canvas, 36" x 48"
The Cynthia Corgett Gallery

Alexander Birulin
"Mattress", 2013, Acrylic on bedsheet
11.12 Gallery, Singapore/Moscow

Thom Puckey
"Figure on Bed with Camera and Weapons"
2013, White Carrara Marble Sculpture
306" x 41" x 81"
Barbara Paci Gallery, Pietrasanta

(Source: All photos taken by ARTSnFOOD staff with permission of the Art Fair and the individual galleries.)

FOOD

Fabulous Microwave

Sweet Potatoes

We have all learned how healthy sweet potatoes are for us, but sweet potato french fries or baked sweet potato loaded with butter does not sound all that healthy!

Here we present a simple solution that tastes FABULOUS!

Ingredients:

- One sweet potato for each guest, washed and dried off.

- Store-bought or fresh carrot juice.

- Salt & Pepper to taste.

Directions:

- Note: Prepare each sweet potato separately - one at a time then mix them all together at the end.

- Make a shallow slice down the side (longways) of the sweet potato to let out steam.

- Wrap the potato in a paper towel and place in the center of your microwave.

- Cook on high for 5 minutes.

- After the first 5 min. open microwave, turn potato over and cook an additional 5 minutes on the other side.

- Remove from Microwave (it will be hot).

{PUT NEXT POTATO IN THE MICROWAVE}

- After a minute cut open the potato - if too hot to handle, wait another minute.

- Scoop out the meat of the potato into a mixing bowl.

- Add a splash of carrot juice (2 tsp)

- Add two grinds of sea salt & two grinds of black pepper.

- Mix well with a fork until mashed and well combined.

- Move to the serving dish.

{WHEN 2ND POTATO IS DONE]

- Repeat the process until you have one potato for each diner.

(Source: Original recipe from Atkinson Family Cookbook)

Until later,

Jack

Alina Oswald, "Smoking Fields" Archival Pigment Print.
© 2014 Alina Oswald
Shown as a part of the Juried Emerging Artists Exhibition in the Upstairs Gallery of SoHo PHOTO Gallery

ART
SoHo
PHOTO
Gallery
May 2014 Exhibition

On Tuesday, May 6th SoHo PHOTO Gallery had an opening for 5 mid-career artists (downstairs) and a group show of emerging artists (upstairs, in a grand experiment partnered with B&H Photo).

In many ways photography has replaced painting as the most appreciated medium for two-dimensional fine art. All six exhibitions were interesting and diverse in their approach.

SoHo PHOTO Gallery at 15 White Street in Manhattan.
© 2014 Jack A. Atkinson

Editorial Comment: The juried emerging artist exhibition upstairs, showed only one photo for each new artist. I kept wanted to see more, at least 3 photos by each artist, to get a feeling for their technique and how they think. With only one photo each, when I found a print I enjoyed, I couldn't make a reasonable judgement on the artist's talent, only on the qualities of that individual photograph. The positive side of this equation is the "one-photo-each" restriction gave more artists access to the "packed crowd" at this gallery's opening.

A small fraction of the large crowd at the gallery's opening reception.
© 2014 Jack A. Atkinson

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(1) People Walking

Susan Bowen

“My work is always about motion; these images are part of an ongoing series on the topic of People Walking. Shot at various busy street corners in New York City, I like to record the swirl of activity around me. The vantage point is low; I am often sitting on the ground with a small tripod and rapidly capturing people as they walk by.”

Susan Bowen, "People Walking #3544" fibre Rag Pigment Print

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(2) Comforts of Home

Allen Bryan

“The Comforts of Home series invites us into precarious places and unsettling living situations. Exteriors intrude into interiors through windows and doors left carelessly ajar. People are ghostly blurs or fragmented presences. The minute details of objects in these spaces give a glimpse into the past and present. These are figments of a world that isn’t as real as it looks at first glance and that question a comfortable reality.”

Allen Bryan, Comforts of Home Series, "Reading Room"
© 2014 Allen Bryan

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(3) Stairway to Paradise

Joan Lebold Cohen

“When I studied traditional Chinese paintings, I found the mountains and mists so unfamiliar that I assumed the artists imagined the subjects. Yet I knew that artists usually paint what they see. I sought out those places and was able to find the landscape they have immortalized. After more than forty years of photographing in Asia, I finally traveled to the remote rice terraces in southern China’s Guizhou province. There I found the lush green mountains with finely carved terraces filled with water reflecting a brilliant sky.”

"Stairway to Paradise Series"
© 2014 Joan Lebold Cohen

Joan Lebold Cohen - cropped - "Stairway to Paradise Series"

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(4) Dream Chasers

Jean Nestares

“I have been thinking about new ways to create pauses and silences where breath is held in my artistic world that has always been inspired by movement. In this series of natural images, untouched by any manipulation, I create the sensation of a double dimension by superimposing images on fabric and paper, creating the essence of the dream.”

Jean Nestares, "Dream Chasers Series", images on fabric and paper.

"Dream Chasers Series"
© 2014 Jean Nestares

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(5) Burma: A Strange and Subtle Secret

Bruce Wodder

“In my new photographic project, I explore the beauty of Burma through its people, and one spectacular cow. This work covers much of the country and its indigenous people, including tribes from the remote Brown Zone. Ordinarily my personal work is shot on film using medium or large format to achieve the desired look. In this project, all the images are digital capture output to black & white.”

Bruce Wodder
- cropped image - "Bamboo Raft Man", Inle Lake,
Archival Pigment Print

Bruce Wodder
cropped image - "The Village Cow, Bagan"
Archival Pigment Print,

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B&H Workshop
(6) Emerging Artists

Juried Exhibition

In Upstairs Gallery

This past October, the B&H Event Space partnered with Soho Photo Gallery to launch a grand experiment in photographic training: B&H’s new Portfolio Development Series offered participants a five-month curriculum of free classes and the opportunity to show qualifying work at the gallery. They attended critiques, kept generating new work and posting it to social media, built a website, and finally printed a mini-portfolio which was submitted to Soho Photo Gallery for a juried show. The selected and exciting approaches to photography represent the cream of that crop.

Rafael Infante
"One Life"
(cropped) © 2014 Rafael Infante

Alina Oswald
"Smoking Fields" Archival Pigment Print.
(cropped) © 2014 Alina Oswald

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Soho PHOTO Gallery
15 White Street
New York, NY 10013
212.226.8571

Gallery Hours:

Wednesday - Sunday

1:00pm - 6:00pm

(and by appointment)

FOOD
TOMATO SOUP &
ROASTED BRUSSELS SPROUTS

Tomato & Onion Soup with Roasted Brussels Sprouts.
© 2014 Jack A. Atkinson

Tomato & Onion Soup

INGREDIENTS
3 stalks celery diced
2 large onions diced
1 large carrots diced
3 sweet red & yellow peppers diced
3 cloves garlic diced

3 6oz cans of diced tomatoes
1 32oz box of vegetable broth
1/2 cup kechup
Salt, Black Pepper and ground Chipotle Pepper.

DIRECTIONS
- Sauté in olive oil a mirepoix of diced: celery, onions, carrots, garlic and sweet peppers in the bottom of a large stock pot until soft and just beginning to brown (do not burn), stirring often.
- Add the diced tomatoes, put on lid and cook for 8 - 10 minutes (to bring out the sugars and sweeten the tomatoes) stirring often.
- Add the ketchup, stir in.
- Add the vegetable broth, stir and simmer for 30 minutes.
- Season to the soup to taste (start with 1/2 teaspoon each of Salt, Black Pepper and ground Chipotle Pepper - you can always add more).
- Process the soup in a blender, in batches, until creamy, no chunks. (Thickness of the soup is your preference, add vegetable broth if you want to thin.)
- Check one last time for seasoning and adjust as needed.

- This soup is good both hot and cold.
OR
- Serve, like onion soup, by putting pureed soup into in a small crock, with a cut round of toast and grated Swiss cheese on top.
- Then put all under the broiler until melted.
- Serve immediately.

Roasted Brussel Sprouts

INGREDIENTS
20 - 30 Brussels Sprouts (trimmed, cleaned and halved)
Pam spray oil, or coat in a bowl with extra virgin olive oil
Salt
Black Pepper

DIRECTIONS
- Clean, trim and half all of the Brussels sprouts
- Peel some of the leaves off of each and add to the mix.
- Spread sprouts and leaves evenly onto a large 1/2" walled oven pan.
- Coat sprouts with Pam (or coat in a bowl with E.V. Olive Oil)
- Sprinkle the sprouts with some salt and pepper.
- Roast for 30 +/- minutes in a hot 400º oven (or a broiler for less time)
- Check ever five minutes or so and stir until some charing occurs.
- Serve as a side dish. (Check for seasoning).

(Source: Original recipes from Atkinson Family Cookbook, Photo by Jack A. Atkinson)

Until later,

Jack

Julie Blackmon's "Thin Mints", Robert Mann Gallery

Julie Blackmon, "Thin Mints" (detail), Robert Mann Gallery

ART

AIPAD NYC 2014

"THE WORLD'S

LEADING FINE ART

PHOTOGRAPHY

FAIR"

AIPAD's (Association of International Photography Art Dealers) 2014 Art Fair opened to great excitement at the Park Ave. Armory (643 Park Avenue between 66th and 67th Streets.) in the heart of Manhattan's upper east side. Visitors to the fair commented on the extraordinary range of photographic works on view and the warm atmosphere the Park Avenue Armory gives to this event.

Collectors, major museum directors, curators, art dealers, business leaders as well as celebrities and the media know this annual show represents a collection of the best-in-the-world galleries dedicated exclusively to photographic techniques. Important and rare works of art were available.

Like all New York's art fairs, AIPAD was here for one short weekend, then the unsold masterpieces were dispersed back to their homes, around the world!

Let us now enjoy some of the photographs featured in this interesting and different art fair.

Lee Marks Fine Art, Shelbyville, IN, USA

Alfred Eisenstaedt, "Shaker Village, Mass. 1974"
Galerie Johannes Faber

André Kertész, "Chez Mondrian, Paris" #11
neg. 1926, print. 1977, signed & dated
Michael Shapiro Gallery

André Kertész, "Satiric Dancer" Paris, 1926
Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago USA

Annie Leibovitz, "The Hudson River, New York" 1990
Archival Pigment Print, ed. of 40, 30" x 40", signed, Weinstein Gallery

Ansel Adams
"Magnetic Core Assembly, IBM Plant, Poughkeepsie"
The Weston Gallery, Inc., Carmel, CA, USA

"Cattle Market - Three Gorges, Yangtze River Series" Hyperion Press Limited, NY

Charles Hewitt, "Salvador Dali" 1955
William L. Shaeffer Photographs

Chris Killip
"Rocker and Rosie Going Home" Seacoal Beach, Tynemouth, 1984
Eric Franck Fine Art, London

Edward Burtynsky, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, NY

Elliot Ross, "Animal (11), 2007, ed. of 10
Alan Klotz Gallery

Joel Meyerowitz, Howard Greenberg Gallery

Josef Koudelka
"Hauts-de-Seine, Parc de Sceaux, France, 1987"
Eric Franck Fine Art, London

Julia Fullerton-Batten
"The End of the Affair"
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA USA

Julia Fullerton-Batten photographer
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA USA

Jurgen Schadeberg
"Nelson Mandela in his Cell on Robben Island (Revisit)"
Platinum Print, 20" x 24"
Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Kevin Cooley,
"Controlled Burn 1"
2013 ed. of 4, 40" x 60",
Kopeikin Gallery

Kevin Cooley,
"Controlled Burn 2"
2013 ed. of 4, 40" x 60",
Kopeikin Gallery

Marc Yankus
"Stairs Building"
Clamp Art

Martina Bacigalupo,
"Gulu Real Art Studio VI"
twelve found color prints, unique 1/1
Yossi Milo Gallery

Michael Macku (from Czech Republic)
PACI Contemporary, Brescia, Italy

Michael Shapiro Photographs, Westport, CT, USA

Photographer Unknown
"Mobile Air Raid Shelter" (before and after)
England, Daniel Blau Gallery

Richard Avedon
"Andy Warhol, New York City"
Gelatin Silver Print, 8" x 10"
Barry Singer Gallery, Petaluma, CA USA

Sharon Core, "1866"
from the series 1606-1907 (photo taken 2012)
edition of 7
Yancey Richardson Gallery

Stephen Wilkes
"Snow Covered Bridge, Guilin, China" 2005
ed. of 10,
Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Vik Muni
"The Desperate Man, After Courbet" 2007 (From Gordian Puzzles), edition of 6
David Zwirner

Wang Ningde
"Some Days No. 8"
Silver Gelatin Print, ed. of 10,
M97 Gallery, Shanghai, China

William Genaust (1907-1945)
"IWO JIMA FLAG-RAISING, 2-23-45"
printed in 1945
Daniel Blau Gallery

Zhang We
"Artificial Theater" 2012 ed.of 10,
798 Photo Gallery, Beijing, China

(Source: All photographs in this issue were taken by ARTSnFOOD staff with the permission of the individual galleries and the AIPAD Fair Management. Photos are generally cropped-in some from the originals so are not exact renditions. All rights remain with the individual artist, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.)

FOOD

A Simple Cake!

If you want to give a real treat of a "from-scratch" cake as a present to your family, your office or a friend, go ahead and buy the boxed cake mix, but make these substitutions.
- Use unsalted butter instead of oil
- Use milk instead of water
&
- Add a few extra drops of vanilla.

Voila! "I knew you were coming so I baked a cake!"

Buttercream Icing

Ingredients

1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar (approximately 1 lb.)
2 tablespoons milk
Directions

- In large bowl, beat shortening and butter with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla.

- Gradually add sugar, one cup at a time, beating well on medium speed. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl often. When all sugar has been mixed in, icing will appear dry.

- Gradually add milk; beat at medium speed until light and fluffy.

- For a thinner consistency, add 2 - 4 tablespoons light corn syrup, water or milk.

- For stiffer consistency, omit butter and substitute an additional 1/2 cup shortening and 1/2 teaspoon of Butter Flavoring.

- Keep bowl with icing covered with a damp cloth until ready to use.

(Makes about 2 cups of icing.)

(Source: cake mix idea from a facebook friend, icing from Wilton's Cake Decorating blog)

Until later,

Jack

At AIPAD (Association of International Photography Art Dealers) 2014 Art Fair. (PDNB Gallery Booth 411)

ART
MORE PHOTOS
FROM AIPAD 2014

Aaron Siskind (1903-1991) "Saguaros 10", 1949,
Gelatin silver print, c 1949, 17 x 16 in.
Bruce Silverstein Gallery

Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) "The Steerage" 1907
Vintage photogravure, Camera Work, Oct. 1911
8" x 11" (perfect condition)
Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA USA

Andrew Moore, "School District 123, Cherry County, Nebraska" 2013
46" x 62" Archival Pigment Print, edition of 6 + 2 ap
Yancey Richardson Gallery

Flip Schulke (1930-2008)
"Ali Underwater" 1961
Gelatin Silver Print
Keith de Lellis Gallery, NY

Harry Callahan, "Eleanor, Port Huron (in the grass)"
Gelatin silver print, 1954, 8 x 10 inches
The Weston Gallery, Inc., Carmel, CA USA

Phil Bergerson

"Untitled, Martinsville, Indiana, 2006"

Chromogenic print mounted to archival board

ed. of 10

Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Imogen Cunningham
(detail) "Frida Kahlo Rivera"
San Francisco, 1930, Gelatin silver print Throckmorton Fine Art, NY

Photographer Unknown
Frida Kahlo, "Me Twice", c. 1930-40
William L. Schaeffer / Photographs

J.H.Lartigue, Keith de Lellis Gallery, NY

Jan Staller, "The White Series", 2013
Archival Pigment Print, 30" x 60"
Alan Kotz Gallery

Julia Margaret Cameron, (English, born in India, 1815-1879)
"Sir J.F.W. Herschel"
Albumen print from a collodion negative, 1867
Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Gallery, NYC

Keith de Lellis Gallery

Kevin Cooley
"NROL - 65 Spy Satellite Launch"
ed. of 4, 40" x 60"
Kopeikin Gallery

Charles Schwartz, Ltd. NYC

Margaret Bourke-White
"Diamond Edge Saw" (Indiana Limestone Company 1931)
Gelatin Silver Print, Bourke-White's stamp and title mounted on back
Richard Moore Photographs

Michiko Kon, "Rabbit"
from series, 2010
Gelatin Silver Print
Photo Gallery International

Michiko Kon, "Zebra and Japanese Socks"from series, 2010
Gelatin Silver Print
Photo Gallery International

Neal Slavin,
"15 July 1984 Channel Swimmers"
(Polaroid)
PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA

Roddy McDowell
"Alfred Hitchcock", 1964
Gelatin Silver Print
Keith de Lellis Gallery

Ruud Van Empel
"Perception" 2014
54 x 40" Archival Pigment Print, ed. of 7
Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta USA

Stan Douglas, "Artist's Cabin" 2009
Digital C-Print mounted on Dibond Aluminum
David Zwirner Gallery, NY

FOOD

Sheet Pan

Pecan Pie

Pecan Pie is America's favorite "Sweetie Pie".

Here is a way to make it for a larger crowd or even more for your family.

Base

Ingredients:

- 1 cup butter, chilled and cut in small pieces

- 2 cups flour

- 1/2 cup brown sugar

- Pinch of Salt

Base

Directions:

- With a food processor or hand mixer combine ingredients until butter is hardly visible.

- Dump the mixture into the prepared pan and press it down with the back of a measuring cup.

- Bake shortbread base for 10 minutes.

- While this is baking, ready the filling ingredients.

Pecan Filling

Ingredients:

- 8-ounces pecans (2 cups) coarsely chopped

- 1 stick butter (1/2 cup)

- 1 cup packed light brown sugar

- 1/3 cup honey

- 2 Tbls whipping cream

Pecan Filling

Directions:

- In a saucepan melt butter and stir in brown sugar, honey, and cream. Simmer mixture, stirring for 1 minute.

- Add pecans. Spoon mixture over HOT crust, do not try to spread

this; it will fill in the gaps when it is baking.

- Bake in the middle of the oven for 15 minutes adding another 5 minutes if the filling is not bubbly.

(Source: from the family cookbook of Elizabeth and Anna Addoms)

Until later,

Jack

Located in Oxford Mississippi, William Faulkner's home, he named "Rowan Oak", is hollowed ground for writers and lovers of great American literature.

A full collection of his books sit on the shelves of his living room.

Museums
William Faulkner's home, "Rowan Oak".

William Faulkner 1897 - 1962

William Cuthbert Faulkner, born with the name Falkner on September 25, 1897, was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of written media, including novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.

Faulkner added a map of Yoknapatawpha County
at the end of his novel Absalom, Absalom!

Yoknapatawpha, pronounced "Yok'na pa TAW pha", was the original name for the actual Yocona River, a tributary of the Tallahatchie which runs through the southern part of Lafayette County Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. Also the neighboring county has a similar Indian name, Yalobusha County. Yoknapatawpha is derived from two Chickasaw words—Yocona and petopha, meaning "split land." Faulkner claimed that the compound means "water flows slow through flat land."

Faulkner is one of the most important writers in both American literature generally and Southern literature specifically. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932). Absalom, Absalom! (1936) is often included on similar lists.

William Faulkner.

The dresser in his bedroom.

Faulkner and his wife Estelle in 1955,
the year he won a Pulitzer Prize for A Fable.

"Read, read, read. Read everything."

Faulkner was a gentleman and a horseman!

Faulkner's Great Grandfather Falkner, pictured above,
was a well known local, who was also a published author.
One theory of why Faulkner changed the spelling of his name from Falkner to Faulkner,
was to separate himself from his Great Grandfather and make his own name.

A typewriter and desk in his writing room. It is said that he had three typewriters lined up, for three separate books, and when an idea hit him he would switch books, and move to that dedicated machine.

Guest bedroom.

Faulkner wrote this partial outline for his Pulitzer Prize winning novel "A Fable"
on the wall of his writing room.

Ancient vines on the grounds of Rowan Oak.
(There are no Rowan Trees or Oak Trees on his property.)

A chair in the guest bedroom.

Faulkner with his dogs.

Stately pines on the gorgeous grounds surround the
unadorned-yet-elegant home.

A beautiful bloom of the Magnolia Tree.

Cedars abound on the grounds at Rowan Oak.

The front living room.

A print of Rockwell Kent's
Captain Ahab
from Melville's Moby Dick
is on the wall in
Faulkner's front living room.

Estelle's (Faulkner's wife) painting
of a magnolia flower hangs
on a wall in the front living room.

Chair in the front living room.

Faulkner photo taken on November 9, 1958.
Caption:
THE ONLY "TRULY HAPPY" EXPRESSION I ever caught
(of my little friend - off guard of course)
IN WEDDING ATTIRE at "reception" DEAN'S WEDDING".
- Photo and Comment by J.R. Cofield

A Faulkner hand lettered and illustrated book.

The front living room.

The foyer staircase.

This burned window fragment was the inspiration
for the character Cecelia Farmer in his Requiem for a Nun.

Easy chair.

"'Count No-Account' (ha) Not an act, his very graceful-poses.
He was a natural""
- J.R. Cofield

The kitchen door is shown out of a back window.

Faulkner's dining room.

Faulkner would sequester himself in his writing room, in order to write undisturbed.

Rowan Oak dining room.

Faulkner's bedroom.

Faulkner's bedroom, detail.

Upstairs back hallway.

Faulkner's bedroom.

Estelle's bedroom and studio.

Adult beverages Faulkner enjoyed.

Rowan Oak's horse barn.

Next to the horse barn.

Rowan Oak grounds.

"The Square"
in Oxford, Mississippi.

(Source: All photos were taken with permission at the museum property by ARTSnFOOD staff. Text: Wikipedia.)

FOOD

Pineapple/Coconut

Pecan Pie

Ingredients

2 cups sugar

1 tablespoon corn meal

1 tablespoon flour

5 eggs

pinch of salt

1 cup pecans, coarsely chopped

1 cup drained crushed pineapple

1 cup flaked coconut

1 stick butter, melted

1 unbaked pie shell

Instructions

Beat the sugar, corn meal, flour, eggs and salt together. Gently stir in the pecans, pineapple and coconut (don't beat it). Stir in the melted butter and mix well.

Bake at 300 degrees in an unbaked pie shell approximately 50 to 60 minutes.

Cover the crust edge with some aluminum foil to keep it from burning. Cook 15 to 30 more minutes, or until the pie is set.

For the whipped topping mix in a little almond extract. Then sprinkled on toasted coconut.

(Source:Recipe on Facebook.)

Until later,

Jack

ARTSnFOOD, is an online publication dedicated to "The Pursuit of Happiness through the Arts and Food."™ All rights reserved for all content. Concept, Original Art, Original Text & "Original or Assigned Photography" are © Copyright 2014 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. All photographs were taken and/or used with permission. Artworks © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.

Dan Sabau, "Portrait Experiment", Sensei Gallery, NYC

ART

The Affordable Art Fair

Spring 2014

(Issue 1)

As we head toward Summer, here is a preview of our coverage of the Spring 2014 edition of the Affordable Art Fair, NYC.
Much more to come!!!!!

Galleries present their work in individual booths.

Anne-Valerie Dupond, "Gemma - Animal Trophy", Fabric, Decorazon Gallery, London, Dallas

Dan Sabau, Portrait Experiment, Sensei Gallery, NYC

Francis Simeni, Portrait of a Child, Sensei Gallery, NYC

Juana Valdes, "Bone China Sculpture"
, Sensei Gallery, NYC

Chris Wood, "Linea Ordered Chance", Dichoric glass and Light,
45"x45"x1.6", Byard Art, Cambridge, UK

detail Chris Wood,
"Linea Ordered Chance", Dichoric glass and Light,
45"x45"x1.6",
Byard Art, Cambridge, UK

Kathleen Wilke, "Feather", Photo C-Print on Kodak Metallic, Perspex Mounted, ed. 10,
Decorazon Gallery, London, Dallas

Kathleen Wilke, "Snail Shell"
C-Print on Kodak Metallic, Perspex mounted,
30x30", Decorazon Gallery, Dallas,
detail (reflections not part of art)

Ruth Waller & Lee Hewett, "Solar Pull",
mixed media, 47" diam.,
Gayard Art, Cambridge, UK

detail, Ruth Waller & Lee Hewett,
"Solar Pull", mixed media, 47" diam.,
Gayard Art, Cambridge, UK

At the AAF, Spring 2014

AAF gives virtual UGALLERY, a physical space! www.UGallery.com, Online, San Fran., CA

Jessica JH Roller, Black Deer with Cottonwood and Snakes", acrylic on canvas, $350,
www.UGallery,com
Online, San Fran., CA

Anna Coroneo, "New York Love Me", 38x38 inches, $1850,
Vogelsang Gallery, Brussels.

Gregory Auebach, "In a Brighter World II", bullets, butterflies, mixed media,
36x 29 inches, $9500, Vogelsang Gallery, Brussels

Art Angler's Gallery Booth at AAF.

Athol Whitmore, "Golly Gosh", 2013, vintage table top + enamel paint, $1485, Bicha Gallery.

Flavio Lattuada, "Pescador " $7000, Arte Centro, Milan.

Flavio Lattuada, "Pescador" $7000, Arte Centro, Milan.

Flavio Lattuada, "Pescador"
$9000, Arte Centro, Milan.

John Kenny, "Learnesi", Fuji Cristal C-Type Archival Print,
36" x 24" ea. $3850, ed. 12, Capital Culture Gallery, London.

Justin Rhee, "Untitled", $450,
Manifold Editions, London.

Justin Rhee, "Untitled",
$500, Manifold Editions, London,

Pure Evil, "Mia Ferrow's Nightmare" & "Andy Warhol's Nightmare",
Spray Paint on Canvas, $2,250 ea., Coates & Scarry Gallery, Bristol, UK

Rachel Ross, detail "Collected Cutlery" $4,100
Acrylic on board, Painter & Hall

Rachel Ross, close detail "Collected Cutlery" $4,100,
Acrylic on board, Painter & Hall

Rachel Ross, close detail "Four Fiddle Backs" $4,900
Acrylic on board, Painter & Hall

Rachel Ross, detail "Four Fiddle Backs" $4,900,
Acrylic on board, Painter & Hall

Simon Laurie, "Cider and Fish Still Life"
acrylic on board, 32x34 inches, $8,200,
Painter & Hall Gallery, London

(Source:ARTSnFOOD staff photos)
FOOD

"How To" Control

Your Food Portions?

Visualize!

(Source:USA.Gov)

Until later,

Jack

Daan Oude Elferink, "Red"
Photograph (shown cropped)
Ronen Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

ART
Affordable
Art Fair
NYC
Spring 2014
(Issue #2)

The Affordable Art Fair always shows both interesting and reasonably priced artworks. Most of the foreign galleries are from the UK and in New York City and London the art world defines reasonably priced works as those under $10,000.

The reality of the pricing at The AAF was a handful of works at $500 plus a handful at the top end of $10,000 - but the majority of the pieces at the fair were in the middle ground of $2,500 to $8,000.

Curia', "Juengo II", AbrahamArt. com, Netherlands

Katharine Morling, "Stitched Up!", porcelain with stain. Blue Tomato Gallery, UK

Kejinders, "A Golden Welcome - with my open heart"
AbrahamArt. com, Netherlands

Kejinders, "Furry Charming Sexy Beauty", AbrahamArt. com, Netherlands

Kejinders, "Glamour Rain", AbrahamArt. com, Netherlands

Michael Fitts, "Cap Gun" Oil on Metal, Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD, USA

Norma Marquez Orozco, "Movements", Print - edition of 6, Julio Valdez Studio, NY,NY

Norma Marquez Orozco, "Untitled" Mat board inside a translucent paper box, Julio Valdez Studio, NY,NY

Petr Weigl, "Humanity - Undisputed Truth" bone china with red & white glaze, Blue Tomato Gallery, London, UK

Petr Weigl, detail "Humanity - Undisputed Truth"
bone china with red & white glaze,
Blue Tomato Gallery, London, UK

Petr Weigl, "New Beginnings" bone china on glass, Blue Tomato Gallery, London, UK

Artist Petr Weigl
at Blue Tomato Gallery booth
London, UK

Inyoung Seoung, "Pride" - Seven series 2/7 - 2012, Gallery Ho, NYC

DETAIL 1 - Inyoung Seoung, "Pride" - Gallery Ho, NYC

DETAIL 2 - Inyoung Seoung, "Pride" - Gallery Ho, NYC

DETAIL 3 - Inyoung Seoung, "Pride" - Gallery Ho, NYC

Eoghan Bridge, "Fab Four", ceramic - unique,
Linda Blackstone Gallery, London

James Burke, "Tickets Please (Paddington)"
train ticket chads & paint, BICHA Gallery, London

Detail - James Burke, "Tickets Please (Paddington)"
train ticket chads & paint, BICHA Gallery, London

John Aquilino's Oil on Canvas paintings
at Fraser Gallery's Booth from Bethesda, MD, USA

Lee, Young II, sculpture in mixed media,
Gallery Tableau, Soul South Korea

Lee, Young II
"Look & Me"
sculpture - mixed media,
Gallery Tableau, Soul South Korea

Lee, Young II
"Stupid"
sculpture - mixed media,
Gallery Tableau, Soul South Korea

Siobhan Doran,
"Savoy External Lettering in Savoy Grill, The Savoy" (cropped)
2009, ed. of 6 BICHA Gallery, London

Artist: The Catman, Title: "Significado", acrylic on canvas,
Del Villa Arte Galleries, Barcelona, Spain

Carlos Albert, "Triton" 2013,
forged steel, 10.2" x 7.5" x 7.8"
Art Angler Gallery, NYC

Artist: Gregory Watin, Title: "Gritol", mixed media
(other information unavailable)

Lawrence Morrell, "Georgian Coral I", Etched Glass, 20"x20"x2.5"
Portland Fine Art, Portland, OR, USA

Lucie Bennett,
"Electric Dreams" (left)
"Ring-a-Zing-Zing" (right)
2013, silkscreen on paper, ed of 75 ea.
Eyestorm Gallery

Marlene Rose, display of glass art objects
Sand Cast Glass & Steel,
Marlene Rose Studio/Gallery

Marlene Rose
"Orange Bookshelf Buddha"
14"x5"x5", Sand Cast Glass & Steel
Marlene Rose Studio/Gallery

Oil + Mixed Media painting
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, NYC & London
(other information unavailable)

Peter Monaghan, "Linear Pair", 2014, mixed media
Cube Gallery, London

Stilianna Alexieva, "Low Evening Light", Oil on Aluminum
Quantum Contemporary Art, London, UK

Susan Evans
(paintings, oil on canvas, under $1000)
New Grounds Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Susan Reid, "Yippy Kid", Acrylic on canvas
New Grounds Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Thomas Barbey, "Deep Chest", 38" x 30", photography
Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, NYC

FOOD

Avocado & Strawberry

Spinach Salad

INGREDIENTS:

6 cups fresh baby spinach

1 pint strawberries, hulled then sliced in 1.8" sections

1 avocado, diced (or you can double this to 2 avocados!)

4 ounces crumbled Gorgonzola or blue cheese

1/4 cup sliced almonds, toasted

half a small red onion, thinly sliced

INSTRUCTIONS:

Toss all ingredients together with your desired amount of dressing until combined. Serve immediately.

Poppy Seed Dressing:

Ingredients:

1/2 cup olive oil
3 Tablespoons apple cider vinegar
2 Tbsp. honey
1 Tbsp. poppy seeds
pinch of ground dry mustard
pinch each, ground: sea salt & black pepper

Instructions:

Whisk all dressing ingredients together until combined.

Until later,

Jack

Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street; Rainy Day
(Image courtesy Chicago Art Institute)

(This article is shared from "The Chicagoist" - direct link http://chicagoist.com/2014/06/22/caillebotte_uncovered_art_institute.php )

ART

Gustave Caillebotte’s

"Paris Street; Rainy Day"

Restoration reveals hidden secrets of this masterwork
at The Chicago Art Institute.

The art world is replete with mysteries, many hidden in plain sight.

In what was supposed to be a routine cleaning, the Art Institute of Chicago’s recent restoration of Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street; Rainy Day uncovered details about the artist’s original intention that have been buried under varnish for decades.

Conservator Faye Wrubel and assistant paintings conservator Kelly Keegan recently discussed these findings in a lecture at the Art Institute, proving that even in the case of beloved masterpiece, there’s more than meets the eye.

Completed in 1877, the painting spent at least 50 years stored in a French chateau before eventually being purchased by the Art Institute in 1964.

While there is no record of a previous restoration, Wrubel estimates a treatment occurred a half-century ago before the work was sold. Using ultraviolet, x-ray, microscopy, and infrared imaging in their analysis, the conservation team discovered dark blotches in the sky indicating a layer of paint had been added.

Wrubel painstakingly began removing the varnish from the massive 6-by-9 foot canvas using cotton swabs.

She even turned the work upside down to reach the top of the painting for cleaning. The old varnish had blanched the painting’s surface, giving it a milky appearance.

The striking results of the restoration reveals greater saturation of color, sharper edges, and more contrast with an overall effect of more visual depth. Overpainting was removed from the once yellow sky, exposing a bluer surface with gradation indicating light and movement.

“What we have been seeing all these years may have been beautiful, we may have all loved it, but it wasn’t right,” Wrubel said of the findings’ impact.

In addition to visible details that were brought to light, conservators uncovered new information about the masterpiece by comparing the ultraviolet and x-ray images to a preparatory sketch for the painting as well as study residing at Paris’ Musée Marmottan Monet.

Paris Street; Rainy Day is one of the Art Institute’s most popular works. The next time you pay a visit to Gallery 201, consider these details.

The edge was not the edge! Conservators stripped away about two inches of added paint at the left side of the canvas, revealing the original raw edge the artist had intended. One can see rest of the carriage vanishes into thin air, as nothing to the left of it was meant to be shown. The Art Institute is considering reframing the work to its intended dimensions.

The man at the right foreground was added by Caillebotte. Originally, the red building was much closer to the female figure as indicated by faint specks of the red paint visible above the drainpipe. The figure contributes to the feeling of movement and spontaneity of the work, as does the subtle curve of the street now visible behind the central male figure.

The female figure was long thought to be wearing a pearl earring, but its sparkling appearance after cleaning reveals it’s actually a diamond. The luminescent peach glow around her shoulders had previously been hidden under varnish. It’s also thought that her gloved hand was originally bare, as seen in the Marmottan painting.

After the cleaning, 19th-century European painting and sculpture curator Gloria Groom, noticed that two figures assumed to be walking together were actually passing each other. Now that the face and hands of the figures are visible it’s clear the woman is passing the man in the street.

One of the figures seen behind the central male figure is an inversion of a famous sketch by Caillebotte.

Not everything has changed. The central building in the painting houses a pharmacy at street level. In a recent visit, Wrubel sought out the famous Paris street and discovered that it's still a pharmacy.

Layered brushstrokes indicate wet paint modeling on the canvas rather than the palette. Caillebotte’s emphasis capturing motion and varied light revealed in this restoration may cause the art world to reconsider his standing as a realist and place him amongst his Impressionist friends.

“I spent so much time with this picture I felt I became part of it,” said Wrubel on the treatment process.

The world has spent over a century with this well known masterpiece, and it’s thrilling to find that after such time it still has hidden narratives to share.

ART

Cartoon

The artist's relationship with their art.

(Shared from Hyperallergic, direct link: http://hyperallergic.com/134144/painting-is-such-sweet-sorrow/)

FOOD

Oven-Baked
Turkey & Frito Pie

Ingredients:
1 lb. lean ground turkey
Tablespoon olive oil
1 can (16 oz) chili beans
1 can (8 oz) tomato sauce
1 can (15 oz) diced tomatoes
1 envelope low sodium taco seasoning
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese (2% milk fat)
3 1/2 cups corn chips (original Fritos brand)
1 1/4 cup fat free sour cream

Directions:
Cook and chop ground turkey in a Tablespoon of olive oil until meat is all white granules, don't overcook. Mix in taco seasoning mix. Stir in beans, tomato sauce, diced tomatoes and 1/4 c. of cheese.

Sprinkle 1 cup corn chips in the bottom of 8x8 baking dish.

Cover chips with the turkey chili.

Bake at 350º for 20 minutes.
Remove from oven, spread sour cream over the chili and top with remaining corn chips and cheese.

Place back in the oven and bake for 4-5 minutes longer.

Until later,

Jack

Jackson Square is the spiritual center of the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The square was designed after the famous 17th-century Place des Vosges in Paris, France,
by the landscape architect Louis H. Pilié and is roughly the size of a city block

ART
New Orleans
A Photo Essay
By Jack A. Atkinson

It's time for summer vacation! In the US, New Orleans, Louisiana is the perfect destination. If you enjoy the exotic and also love food and music, "The Big Easy" is your kind of place.

The "most excellent" Cabildo was the seat of the first (Spanish) colonial government in the area. This structure was built between 1795 and 1799 to replace the Cabildo that burned in the great fire of 1794. In one of the rooms of this building, the Louisiana Purchase was signed in 1803, nearly doubling the size of the United States.

The Cabildo's breezeway entrance.

Across from Jackson Square, Café du Monde has been serving French chicory café au lait and Beignets (French doughnuts) topped with confectioner's sugar since 1862.

Café du Monde serves thousands daily.

Café du Monde servers filling mugs with strong coffee and warm milk.

Across from Café du Monde, an example of New Orleans style architecture
in the French Quarter.

Central Grocery is the home of the original New Orleans' Muffuletta Sandwich.
This deli is located just down the street from Café du Monde.

A wedding party dances down Chartre Street.

The French Quarter, also known as the Vieux Carré,
is the highest ground and the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans.

The Natchez is a steampowerd paddle boat offering daily cruises up and down
the Mississippi River, departing from the French Quarter.
(photo: wikipedea)

A print of the Natchez
steamboat
available on board.

The flag leading the way on the bow of the Natchez.

The steam-powered paddle wheel on the stern
propels the riverboat forward.

On The Natchez's a jazz trio performs during dinner service.

The Creole Queen, another paddle boat offering bayou and swamp tours down the Mississippi.

Place d'Arms Hotel on St. Ann Street,
is one of many wonderful hotels in the Vieux Carré.

A quintessential New Orleans courtyard
is the centerpiece of the Place d'Arms Hotel.

The charm of St. Ann Street at night. Humidity is high in New Orleans
and rain is always a possibility.

St. Ann Street ends at Jackson Square.

Dixieland Jazz can be heard on many streets in the quarter.
Above: Street musicians play Jazz in Jackson Square with eyes closed and
souls firmly embedded in their music.

Music is the heartbeat of New Orleans.
Preservation Hall was established in 1961 to preserve, perpetuate, and protect
one of America’s truest art forms, traditional New Orleans Jazz.

A street musician entertaining the crowd on Royal Street!

Tap dancing near Jackson Sq. for tips
using smashed drink cans nailed to their tennis shoes,
plus all of these dancers
have perfected a very unique loud hand clap!

A younger set of New Orleans street musicians.

A Zydeco band performs in a club on Bourbon Street. Zydeco blends Creole two step, blues and rhythm and blues music together, a washboard and accordion are the basic instruments.

Neon invites tourists to indulge.

Bourbon Street gets rowdy
every night, until dawn!

The name Bourbon Street implies drinking!

A New Orleans pigeon forages for treats dropped by tourists.

Shopping is one of the biggest and
most pleasant experiences offered by the French Quarter.

Window shopping at the toy store.

Window shopping at an antiques store.
Antique stores, art galleries and
Creole Cooking specialty shops
are prolific in "The Quarter".

Window shopping at book store.

Mardi Gras decorations are available year round.

Much of "The Quarter" is dedicated to
"Ghosts", "Haunted Tours" and "Voodoo Dolls".

Mardi Gras Bead shops abound.

A display of a Wild Tchoupitoulas
Mardi Gras Indian outfit.
These wild feathered and beaded outfits
are worn during Mardi Gras.

The famous St. Charles Streetcar.

1885 map of New Orleans, a lithographic print by Currier and Ives.

FOOD

The Camellia Grill, a longtime favorite diner.

Working the "Z" at the Camellia Grill.

Camellia Grill's catfish poboy.

Tableau Restaurant on St. Peter Street at Jackson Square in "The Quarter".

Turtle Soup at Tableau.

Shrimp Remoulade with crab at Tableau.

Fried Oysters in Creole Sauce with crispy parsley at Tableau.

Potatoes Tableau (at Tableau).

Redfish at Tableau.

Commander's Palace is located in the Garden District.

BBQ Shrimp at Commander's Palace.

The interior at Commander's Palace.

A Signature Dish, Bread Pudding Souffle
at Commander's Palace.

Pecan pie a-la-mode at Commander's Palace.

Next to Place d'Arms Hotel is Muriel's Restaurant.

On the upper floor of Muriel's Restaurant there is a seance room.

Tomato and strawberry crepe at Muriel's.

Until later,

Jack

Dale Chihuly's "Red Reeds"
flank the entrance to the Clinton Presidential Center.

ART
Dale Chihuly's
Exhibition
at The Clinton
Presidential
Center

To help celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Clinton Presidential Center, in Little Rock, Arkansas, a wonderful exhibition by America's premier glass artist, Dale Chihuly, is currently being presented. It is being shown in rooms dedicated to changing exhibitions at President Clinton's Library and Museum. The exhibition will run until January 5, 2015.

The Library and Museum house the archives and records of the Clinton Administration, the highlights of these archives are available to view on a self-guided tour. Also in this building is a Museum Store and an on-site restaurant, "Forty Two". The Clinton Presidential Center has other buildings nearby dedicated to President Clinton's ongoing work to improve our nation and to help underprivileged people around the world!

All glass works in this exhibition were designed by and their creation supervised by the artist, Dale Chihuly. They are currently installed in front of the Clinton Library and Museum and are displayed in several rooms and foyers inside the building.

"I never met a color I didn't like." - Dale Chihuly

Dale Chihuly's "Mille Fiori" (detail) off of the mail lobby, c.2008

The entire Clinton family enjoys
these beautiful works of art.
Above: Hillary, Chelsea and President Clinton
are shown standing in front of a
large Chihuly assemblage at the White House.

Above is an example of Dale Chihuly's expressive drawings.
His glass craftsmen work from these sketches to create the unique glass artworks!

(SOURCE: All photos of the Chihuly Exhibit were taken by ARTSnFOOD staff at the Clinton Presidential Library, with permission. http://www.clintonlibrary.gov)

FOOD

Cajun Shrimp

Fettuccine Alfredo

Ingredients

8 ounces fettuccine or your favorite pasta
1 tablespoon butter
1 pound shrimp, peeled and deveined
1 tablespoon cajun seasoning
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1/4 cup dry white wine or chicken broth
1 cup heavy/whipping cream
1 cup parmigiano reggiano (parmesan), grated
1/2 tablespoon cajun seasoning or to taste
1/4 cup green onion, sliced (optional)

Directions

1. Start cooking the pasta.

2. Melt the butter in a pan over medium-high heat, toss the shrimp in the cajun seasoning, add to pan and cook, about 2-3 minutes per side, and set aside.
3. Add the garlic to the pan and saute until fragrant, about a 30 seconds.
4. Deglaze the pan with the wine, add the heavy cream, parmesan and cajun seasoning and cook until it thickens a bit, about 3-5 minutes.
5. Toss the pasta in with the alfredo sauce along with the shrimp and serve garnished with green onions.

(Recipe courtesy: http://bit.ly/1dMUbdH)

Until later,

Jack

The family's flying saucer heads home to the their ranch house.

ART

1950's Advertising Art

visualized the future

The ads predicted today's highways would not require actual driving.

Press a button and your laundry is washed, dried and folded for you!

Great Idea! A food truck!

Carry your own air conditioner!

A "Curtain of Air" instead of a business door.
The worry: would the air curtain blow sparks from cigarettes.

LP vinyl would record messages callers left on your unattended dial phone!

Dial up your meal, served up on a coveyer belt.

Mono-Rails still sound like a good idea!

An automated Valet Laundry Service, comes out on hangers!

(source: 1950's advertisements found on the web)

FOOD

Avocado with

a spicy brown sauce

AVOCADO

Half two ripe avocados, remove pits, scoop out the green meat intact.

Presentation:

Slice (1/4"slices) each half on the serving plates and fan out.

SPICY BUTTER SAUCE

- 1/4 cup ketchup

- 1/4th cup Worcestershire sauce

- 1/4th cup sugar

- 1/4th cup butter

In a small saucepan combine all ingredients and heat over med-high heat, but do not boil.

Spoon the warm sauce over the fan of avocados.

Serves 4

(Source: Marilyn Smith)

Until later,

Jack

Dale Chihuly's "glass plants" brighten up Denver's Botanic Gardens.

ART
Chihuly Exhibition
at The Denver Botanic Gardens

We are feturing a second* Chihuly show this month in ARTSnFOOD, this exhibition is at The Denver Botanic Gardens. Here Chihuli's organic and often plant-like glass artworks interact perfectly with the hordicultural flora of Denver's centrally located public garden!

(*Referencec to July 13, 2014 issue of ARTSnFOOD http://artsnfood.blogspot.com/2014/07/dale-chihulys-exhibition-at-clinton.html)

A glass sculpture with neon!

"This is the first major outdoor exhibition in the Rocky Mountain Region by Washington artist Dale Chihuly. It includes 12 outdoor sculptures, including a towering fountain that lights up at night, and two pieces indoors. The sculptures, made of blown glass in strong colors, sometimes echo, sometimes contrast with garden features.

"The intricate forms came in a passel of semi-trucks, and took a team of Chihuly technicians 11 days to install, said Erin Bird, communications manager for the garden."This text by Stephanie Paige Ogburn for KUNC Community radio for Northern Colorado / link http://www.kunc.org/post/chihuly-draws-record-crowds-denver-botanic-gardens

(Source: All photos © Copyright 2014 Jack A. Atkinson)

FOOD
CHILEAN SEABASS
with FLAME-ROASTED
BABY GOLD POTATOES
+ A Tossed Salad
Food notes by Jack A. Atkinson

Recently I have cooked some of the best fish meals I can remember and the main ingredients came via mail-order from Omaha Steaks.
(Chilean Sea Bass, item # 2326MRA & Flame-Roasted Baby Gold Potatoes, item # 2359MRA - Some communities in the USA have retail stores selling the frozen entrée to carry home with you.)

This company's frozen, wild caught Chilean Sea bass happily sits in your freezer waiting for your desire for a fabulous meal. You do have to thaw the fish in the refrigerator for 24 hours before cooking, so there is some planning ahead, but "Oh!" the tender flavor and texture of this fish will make your head swim.

I recommend you create your salad before you start on the fish, because when the meal is ready, you will want to eat without delay.

When I am ready to prepare the Seabass, I take the thawed fish from the fridge. (In the past if it was not completely thawed I would put it on a metal or a stone surface to sap the rest of the frost out of the fish.) I then remove it from its plastic bag and rinse the fillet gently, but thoroughly, and dry it with several paper towels until the surface is mostly dry (NEVER press too hard, you want to retain the moisture inside fish).

Sprinkle both sides of the fish fillet with salt and pepper or a pre-made steak seasoning which has both S&P plus more seasonings.

Put a knob of butter in a large skillet and add 1 Tbs of good olive oil. Turn the fire on high.

When the butter has melted swirl the pan to mix the two oils and place the seasoned fish into the pan.

Set a timer for 5 minutes.
(Many timers require you to go past the 10 min. mark to start working, so I set mine on 10 minutes and count down from there.)

After 30 seconds or so, lift the fish with a spatula and tilt the pan to make certain the oil in under all of the fish fillet. After 2 minutes and 30 seconds of cooking time, turn the fish and cook the other side for another 2 minutes - 2 minutes, 30 seconds at the most. Remove the fish to a plate to rest for 30 seconds.

While the fish is cooking, microwave the Omaha Steaks Flame-Roasted Baby Gold Potatoes for 3 minutes 30 seconds in their packaging - afterwards let them rest for 1 minute.

Cut the fillet down the middle to make two small portions, add several potatoes to each plate and ample tossed and dressed salad.

Pour some white wine, add nice china with sterling silverware and you have a meal worthy of the good conversation surrounding it.

Our fish was moist and perfectly cooked inside, with a crisp crust on the outside. The whole preparation, including the making of the salad takes only about 15 minutes and the meal was indeed memorable.

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Omaha Steak's Published Instructions

Chilean Sea Bass

Product Information &

Preparation Instructions:

If you've not had the pleasure of dining on tender, moist Chilean Sea Bass, consider this a stroke of luck! The natural... rich... buttery flavor is sure to amaze and delight you and the fortunate guests with whom you share this superb seafood entree. The large, delicate, moist flakes will seem to melt on your tongue... leaving you wishing for another, and yet another bite of this gourmet delight.

Thaw in refrigerator.

SEAR ROAST: Preheat oven at 300°F. Preheat an oven-proof skillet with a small amount of cooking oil. Carefully place Sea Bass in hot pan. Cook for 6 minutes on first side. Carefully turn over fish then place skillet into preheated oven. Cook for 10 minutes in oven.

PAN SAUTE: Preheat skillet with small amount of cooking oil in pan on high. Place Sea Bass in pan and cook for 6-7 minutes then turn over sea bass and continue to cook for 5-6 minutes.

BROIL: Preheat broiler and position top rack so that the fish will end up 2-3" from the element. Brush Sea Bass with melted butter or olive oil. Broil Sea Bass 7-8 minutes on each side or until opaque throughout.

GRILL: Preheat grill on high. Remove fillets from packaging and spray with non-stick cooking oil. Reduce heat to medium. Grill fillets, covered, 7-8 minutes per side taking care when flipping and removing from grill, due to the fragile nature of Sea Bass.

(Reference: Omaha Steaks, Seafood by World Port section; seafood fillets, http://www.omahasteaks.com/product/Chilean-Sea-Bass-4-5-oz-02326?ITMSUF=WZD&shoptype=PROMOTION&shopsrc=PRMSeafood+Fillets)

Until later,

Jack

ART
Jeff Koons
at the Whitney

Jeff Koons is widely regarded as one of the most important, influential, popular, and controversial artists of the postwar era. Throughout his career, he has pioneered new approaches to the readymade, tested the boundaries between advanced art and mass culture, challenged the limits of industrial fabrication, and transformed the relationship of artists to the cult of celebrity and the global market. Yet despite these achievements, Koons has never been the subject of a retrospective surveying the full scope of his career. Comprising almost 150 objects dating from 1978 to the present, this exhibition will be the most comprehensive ever devoted to the artist’s groundbreaking oeuvre. By reconstituting all of his most iconic works and significant series in a chronological narrative, the retrospective will allow visitors to understand Koons’s remarkably diverse output as a multifaceted whole.

This exhibition will be the artist’s first major museum presentation in New York, and the first to fill nearly the entirety of the Whitney’s Marcel Breuer building with a single artist’s work. It will also be the final exhibition to take place there before the Museum opens its new building in the Meatpacking District in 2015.

http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/JeffKoons

Jeff Koons, Tulips, 1995–98. Oil on canvas
111 3⁄8 × 131 in. (282.9 × 332.7cm). (Photo coutesy of the Whitney Museum)
Private collection. © Jeff Koons

NEW WORK
Jeff Koons, Liberty Bell, 2006–14.
Bronze, wood, wrought iron, and cast iron
102 × 72 1⁄4 x 56 1⁄4 in. (259 × 183.4 × 143 cm).
(Photo coutesy of the Whitney Museum)
Private collection. © Jeff Koons

easyfun(Photo coutesy of the Whitney Museum)

one-ball-total

FOOD

Shrimp Rémoulade

from Galatoire’s, a Bourbon Street institution since 1905

From their website: Shrimp Rémoulade is in every New Orleans girl’s arsenal of favored dishes for relaxed entertaining. Serve this simple dish on elegant china and it’s fit for a king- Mardi Gras or otherwise. This is our most popular dish and most frequently requested recipe. Bonus for the home cook: The sauce is definitely best made a day in advance and refrigerated, then all that’s left to do is toss in the shrimp and plate and serve. It’s a snap to make, yet it’s always impressive.

¾ cup chopped celery
¾ cup chopped scallions (white and green parts)
½ cup chopped curly parsley
1 cup chopped yellow onion
½ cup ketchup
½ cup tomato purée
½ cup Creole mustard or any coarse, grainy brown mustard
2 tablespoons prepared horseradish, or to taste
¼ cup red wine vinegar
2 tablespoons Spanish hot paprika
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
½ cup salad oil
4 dozen jumbo (15 count) shrimp, peeled, boiled, and chilled
1 small head of iceberg lettuce, washed, dried and cut into thin ribbons

Mince the celery, scallions, parsley, and onions in a food processor. Add the ketchup, tomato puree, Creole mustard, horseradish, red wine vinegar, paprika, and Worcestershire. Begin processing again and add the oil in a slow drizzle to emulsify. Stop when the dressing is smooth. Chill for 6 to 8 hours or overnight. Correct the seasoning with additional horseradish, if desired after the ingredients have had the opportunity to marry.

In a large mixing bowl, add the sauce to the shrimp and toss gently to coat. Divide the lettuce among 6 chilled salad plates. Divide the shrimp evenly atop the lettuce and serve.

Serves 6

(Source: Galatoire’s)

Until later,

Jack

ART / MUSIC:

THE BEATLES

ARRIVE IN U.S.A.

The New York Public Library

recently presented an exhibition

"Ladies & Gentlemen,

THE BEATLES!"

Entrance to the N.Y. Library exhibition.

In 1964, The Beatles arrived in the United States launching a revolution that changed the course of popular music. Their influence also dramatically affected fashion, art, advertising, religion, politics and almost every aspect of popular culture. A half-century later, The Beatles continue to touch our lives and despite the evolution of music, their songs continue to provide a a soundtrack for our memories and a mirror of our dreams.

John, Paul, George, Ringo, their songs and their musical instruments have become icons of popular rock music. In the early days of televisions being in every home, their performances on The Ed Sullivan Show riveted a whole generation to that glowing tube.

Our infatuation with The Beatles continues and today every generation knows and listens to their music, which is still played regularly on the radio.

Newspaper clipping from the day The Beatles arrived in the US for the first time.

On TV, The Ed Sullivan Show, CBS.

Beatles with Ed Sullivan.

Beatles Perform on Ed Sullivan Show.

A look at the set in color.

Original drawing for the set design.

Beatles rehearse for Ed Sullivan Show.

Beatles early business card.

The Beatles with Pete Best as the drummer.

Two cover versions of their first album, Capitol Records.

Early Recording - on TOLLIE Record label.

"She Loves You" on Swan label.

Gold Record for "I Want to Hold Your Hand"

Poster for "A Hard Day's Night" B/W movie.

Poster for "HELP" COLOR movie.

The "Butcher Cover" was nixed by Capital Records.
After the first run of production, the album had a "beige" cover (below)
pasted over the Butcher cover (above).
Only the few promotional copies of the original "Butcher Cover"
were sent out to radio stations.
Many fans steamed the pasted-over cover off, to reveal the original underneath.
The unadulterated promo copies are the most valuable of Beatles' memorabilia.

(Source: All photos taken with permission of the New York Public Library for publicity of the exhibition "Ladies & Gentlemen, The Beatles!" Artworks © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.)

FOOD:
BANANAS FOSTER

Bananas Foster
(flambé table side if possible)

6 Tbs butter
4 Tbs brown sugar
4 ripe bananas, peeled & sliced lengthwise
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup banana liqueur
1 cup white rum
4 scoops vanilla ice cream

Melt butter in chafing dish or skillet. Add brown sugar and blend. Add bananas and sauté. Sprinkle with cinnamon. Now pour the banana liqueur and the rum over the bananas. Start shaking skillet to agitate the alcohol, ignite, basting with the flaming liquid. When the flame has died, serve bananas and sauce over ice cream onto individual dishes.
Serves 4

Bananas Foster originated at Brennan's and is the "fancy" crowning glory of New Orleans' desserts.

Until later,

Jack

Large Hanging Painting on Canvas at Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmo, Sweden

ART:
Frieze Art Fair
New York, 2014

The "Best Art Fair in New York" is up for grabs these days. It has traditionally been "The Armory Show" at the Chelsea Piers, but the British invasion of the "Frieze Art Fair", in it's huge serpentine tint on Randall's Island, may have already won the title "Best Art Fair in New York", in only their third year of hosting this New York art event.

This is the first of two issues dedicated to the Frieze Art Fair, New York 2014.

Frieze Art Fair New York, Information Desk at the south entrance!

Doug Aitken "I Think Very Deeply" 2013,
carved foam, acrylic letters & silk screened acrylic,
303 Gallery New York

Digital Print on Canvas, Stuart Shave Modern Art, London

Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles

Concept drawings, Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles

Life Collage / Wall, Stuart Shave Modern Art, London

(Detail, Exhausted Superhero)
Life Collage, Stuart Shave Modern Art, London

Same Subject Painting Series showing the changing light patterns and seasons.
"View from my window"
Lisa Cooley, New York

Changing light patterns, same subject, painting:
"View from my window"
Lisa Cooley, New York

Mary Heilmann, "Club Chair 80" 2013,
Painted wood & nylon webbing,
303 Gallery, New York

Digital Prints, mounted on foam, Societe Berlin

Stuart Shave Modern Art, London

Abraham Cruzvillegas,
Collage installation of paint on thin paper glued to heavier painted paper.
Kurinmanzutto Gallery, Mexico City

Aneta Grzeszykowska, from "Negative Book Series" 2012/13
digital print, pigmented ink on cotton paper, ed of 7 + 2 AP,
Raster Gallery, Warsaw

B. Wertz, "T- Shirts", paint on free hanging canvas, Kate MacGarry Gallery, London

Damien Hirst,
"Fear" 1994
Glass case with surgical instruments
White Cube, London

Damien Hirst,
"Fear" (detail) 1994
Glass case with surgical instruments
White Cube, London

Darren Almond, "Fullmoon@Volcanic Achipelago" 2013
Edition of 3, C-print, 47" x 103" unframed 50.25" x 106.75" framed
White Cube Gallery

Eddie Peake, 2013,
"On the Front Door Step- Don't Just Watch Them Pass.
Look, If Ever There Were A Moment To Slap Him In The Mouth, That Was It."
Painted acrylic,
White Cube Gallery, London, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo

(Detail)
Eddie Peake, 2013,
"On the Front Door Step-
Don't Just Watch Them Pass.
Look, If Ever There Were A Moment
To Slap Him In The Mouth, That Was It."
Painted acrylic,
White Cube Gallery,
London, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo

Guillaume Leblon, "Examen de minuit",
ceramics, blanket covered withwhite paint, 2012, unique,
Gallerie Jocelyn Wolff

Miroslaw Balka, 2014,
concrete and steel, 36" high,
White Cube Gallery
London, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo

Photographic Prints with Text,
Espaivisor Gallery, Valencia

Rita Sobral Campos,
"The Solids (toward the Sonnet) #1, 2014,
concreat, foam filling & acrylic paint,
Gallery Andeas Huber, Vienna

Rita Sobral Campos,
"The Solids (toward the Sonnet) #2, 2014,
concreat, foam filling & acrylic paint,
Gallery Andeas Huber, Vienna

Rita Sobral Campos,
"The Solids (toward the Sonnet) #3, 2014,
concreat, foam filling & acrylic paint,
Gallery Andeas Huber, Vienna

Shannon Ebner, "Electric Comma Four"
Digital Epson Print, 43 x 60 inches,
Wall Space New York

Slavs and Tarars, "Lovve Letters" 2013
wool yarn on canvas, 247 cm square, ed of 3 + 1 AP,
Raster Gallery, Warsaw

Yoyoi Kusama, "Pumkin [Atse]", 2014,
Acrylic on Canvas,
David Zwirner, New York, London

Yoyoi Kusama, "Pumkin [Atse]", 2014,
sculpture in white & red,
David Zwirner, New York, London

Yayoi Kusama, "Nets" (blue) acrylic on canvas,
David Zwirner, New York, London

(Source: All photos were taken with the permission of the fair and the individual galleries by ARTSnFOOD staff.)

FOOD

Franklinwood Chicken,

Tomatoes & Rice

This chicken recipe is quick, peppery and delicious.

Ingredients

2 fresh chicken breasts - boneless, skinless

2 fresh tomatoes - large dice

4 Tbsp bottled champagne dressing,

8 Tbsp bottled Cesar dressing,

1/4 cup (+ more if needed) whole milk

1 Tbsp heavy cream

1 Tbsp chopped fresh chives for garnish

Standard Steak Seasoning

Veg. Oil Spray

Directions

- Cook a cup of rice in a pot on the stove (see directions below)

- Butterfly the chicken breasts to make the breasts the same thickness throughout (roughly 1/2 inch thick).

- Sprinkle steak seasoning moderately on the breasts.

- Combine the dressings and milks in a bowl and stir to incorporate.

- Spray veg. oil in large high walled skillet.

- Turn burner on high heat / heat skillet for 10 seconds.

- Place both breasts in skillet to brown, do not overlap.

- After one minute turn meat over.

- Cook on 2nd side, feeling the meat with your spatula, when the edges change from soft to firm, turn meat over again.

- Pour diced tomatoes into the pan and cook with the chicken, after a minute, scoop the tomatoes on top of the chicken to help flavor.

- When center of chicken starts to slightly firm up, flip one more time and put tomatoes on top of chicken.

- When center of this side starts to slightly firm up, remove the chicken only from the pan and place on a plate to rest.

- Pour the dressing and milk mixture into the pan with the tomatoes and brown bits and seasoning left over from the cooked chicken.

- Stir to incorporate the dressing mix and tomatoes into a gravy-like sauce, naturally scraping some of the brown bits on the bottom of the pan.

- When the sauce turns brown, remove from the heat.

- Slice down the center of thickest part of the chicken breast to view doneness. The goal is to have beautiful, soft meat, but no uncooked pink left.

- Dice the chicken breasts into rough 1" cubes.

(If the center meat is definitely uncooked pink, re-cook those pieces in a fresh skillet sprayed with oil, just until pink leaves the meat - you want tender moist chicken, not dry hard chicken.)

-Place chicken in a serving bowl and pour the tomatoes / dressing sauce on top, stir to cover each piece of chicken.

TO PLATE:

- Place a mound of rice on the plate and spoon the chicken and sauce on top.

- Garnish with some fresh chopped chives

- Add a vegetable or side salad to complete the plate.

RICE

Directions:

1 cup rice

2 cups salted water

- In a med pot, bring above to a boil, then reduce temp. to a simmer and cover with a lid.

- Cook rice for 20 minutes WITHOUT taking off the lid or stirring.

- After 20, remove lid & fluff rice.

- Ready to serve.

Recipe serves 4 to 6

(Source: original recipe from Atkinson Family Cookbook)

Until later,

Jack

ART
Frieze Art Fair
New York, 2014
issue #2
coverage continues

Albert Oehlen, "O" 2009, Oil and paper on canvas, Luhring Augusine, New York

Anish Kapoor, Untitled 2014, Fiberglass and paint, 35.4" x 35.4" x 17.7", Lisson Gallery

Christopher Wool, "Untitled" 2012, Silkscreen ink on linen,
Luhring Augustine, NY

Christopher Wool, (detail) Untitled,
1988, Alkyd on paper,
Luhring Augustine NY

Christopher Wool, "Untitled", 1988,
Alkyd on paper, Luhring Augustine NY

David Salle, "red leaf", oil on linen, 75 x 68 inches, 2013,
Maureen Paley, London

Elodie Seguin,
"Houteur d'une couleur
changeante
en perspective", 2014,
ink, paper, wood glue,
Gallerie Jocelyn Wolff

Gabriel Orozco, painting, kurinmanzutto gallery, Mexico City

Goshka Macuga, "Of what is, that it is; of what is not, that it is not 2" 2012,
Andrew Kreps Gallery

Goshka Macuga, (detail) "Of what is, that it is; of what is not, that it is not 2" 2012,
Andrew Kreps Gallery

Goshka Macuga, (detail)
"Of what is, that it is; of what is not, that it is not 2" 2012,
Andrew Kreps Gallery

Jeff Elrod, "Inter Zone", 2013, UV ink on Fischer canvas, Luhring Augustine, NY

Johannes Kahrs, "Untitled" (figure with red and blue),
2013, Oil on canvas, Luhring Augusine, NY

Kate MacGarry, London

KAWS "UNTITLED" 2014, Acrylic on canvas, Unique

KAWS "UNTITLED" 2014,
Acrylic on canvas, Unique

Mauricio IANES, VERMELHO, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Patron? Artist? at Frieze Art Fair

Philip Taaffe, "Celest", 1991, Mixed media on linen, Luhring Augustine, NY

Roberta's Pizza, outdoor eating area

Billy Sullivan, drawings and paintings at Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich

Takashi Murakami, New red flowerball, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, Unique 47 1/4" diameter, Jack Shainman Gallery, NY

Virkvit Tiravanija, Kurimanzutto Gallery, Mexico City

Freize Art Fair coverage to be continued in the next issue.
(Source: All photos were taken with the permission of the fair and the individual galleries by ARTSnFOOD staff.)

FOOD
CAESAR SALAD

SALAD
- 6 Heart of Romaine bunches, (cut off bottom & tops) separate leaves, wash & chop into 1" pieces
- Parmesan cheese (curls or shreds)
- Fresh ground black pepper
- Home-made croutons

DRESSING
2 med. garlic cloves, chopped
1 Tbs anchovie paste
2 egg yolks
1 Tbs dijon mustard
1 tsp fresh ground pepper
3/4 cup EV olive oil
4 Tbs mayonnaise
1 1/2 Tbs Worcestershire sauce
1 Tbs water
1/4 tsp salt
2 Tbs lemon juice
1 Tbs rice vinegar

DIRECTIONS
- Combine dressing ingredients in a blender, combine until smooth
- In a large bowl, toss the Romaine with the dressing, to coat
- Place some dressed greens on each plate
- Place a few croutons around the plate
- Sprinkle some Parmesan cheese on top of the greens
- Finish with a few grinds from the pepper mill

Serves 6 to 8

Home Made CROUTONS
- Cube some day old bread
- Toss with melted butter
- Spread the cubes on a baking sheet
- Place in a pre-heated 350º oven for 10 minutes or until golden brown

(Source: Original recipe, Atkinson Family Cookbook)

Until later,

Jack

ART

Frieze Art Fair

New York, 2014

issue #3

coverage continues

Anish Kapoor, Untitled 2014, Stainless steel, each 11.8" x 6.3" x 6.9",
Lisson Gallery, London

Cornelia Parker, "Composition with Horns (Rorschach)" 2005,
16 silver plated instruments crushed by a 250 ton industrial press, metal wire,
Frith Street Gallery

Cornelia Parker, (detail) "Composition with Horns (Rorschach)" 2005,
16 silver plated instruments crushed by a 250 ton industrial press, metal wire,
Frith Street Gallery

Art Patron dressed in primary colors

Dorothy Cross, "Everest Shark" 2013, Bronze, ed of 3,
72.8" x 33.4", Frith Street Gallery, London

Florian Pumhosl, "Georgian Letter", 2013-14
stamping with oil, paint on ceramic plaster, 57" x 40",
Miguel Abreu Gallery, NY

Hans op de Beeck, "Shelf (5), 2012,
Galleria Continua, San Gimignana, Beijing, Les Moulins

Jessica Rankin, "Ye Mighty Lights", 2014,
ink, graphite and collage on paper
White Cube - London, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo

Juan Usle, "Lost and Found" 2014,
Vinyl, dispersion and dry pigment on canvas, 18" x 24"
Frith Street Gallery, London

Kikuji Yamashita, "Untitled" Joan Baez and card, 1968,
cut and pasted printed papers, spray paint, poster paint, and stencil on paper,
Green Grassi Gallery, London

Kwiekulik, "Activities with Dobromierz", 1972-1974,
48 black-and-white photographs (silver gelatin prints),
30" x 36 cm (each) with paper frame, ed of 3 + 2 AP, RASTER Gallery, Warsaw

Kwiekulik, "Activities with Dobromierz", 1972-1974, (detail)
48 black-and-white photographs (Silver gelatin print), 30" x 36 cm (each) w/ paper frame,
ed of 3 + 2 AP, RASTER Gallery, Warsaw

Liz Deschenes, "Quincy/Braintree",
2014, silvertoned photogram, 109" x 90",
Miguel Abreu Gallery, NY

Matt Paweski, "Stacked Plaques (Navy) 2014,
Euro-Beech hardwood, steel,
copper rivets, enamel, wax, Herald St. Gallery, London

Matt Paweski, Split Plaque (Black/Cream) 2014,
Euro-Beech hardwood, steel, copper rivets, enamel wax,
Herald St. Gallery, London

Matthew Darbyshire,
"Captcha (1) - Corporate Cooler", 2014,
Multi-wall polycarbonate,
13.7" x 18.1" x 15.7",
Herald St Gallery, London

Matthew Darbyshire, "Captcha (4) - Domestic Cat (sitting)", 2014,
Multi-wall polycarbonate, 13.7" x 18.1" x 15.7",
Herald St Gallery, London

Pascale Marthine Tayou, "TABA Yaounde Playground", 2013,
Glaeria Continua, San Gimignano

Pedro Reyes, "Swiss Army Knife VIII", 2014, Mixed Media Sculpture,
Lisson Gallery

Peter Joseph, "Turquoise and Blue" 2013, Acrylic on cotton duck,
Lisson Gallery London, Milan & New York

Polly Apfelbaum, "I tip my hat to you" 2013, Handblown Murano glass, ed of 2,
13.7" x 11.8", Frith Street Gallery, London

Tiger Tateishi, "Pot Fuji", 1991, Oil on canvas,
Green Grassi Gallery, London

Freize Art Fair coverage continues.

(Source: All photos were taken with the permission of the fair and the individual galleries by ARTSnFOOD staff.)

Until later,

Jack

"Van Gogh Repetitions" at Cleveland Museum of Art - Questions the Trite and Stereotyped Image of Vincent's Art Process + The Seder Plate

"THE ART SHOW" 2014 NYC presented by ADAA + A Great Homemade Pizza Crust

"THE ART SHOW" 2014 NYC presented by ADAA (PART II) + FOOD: TUSCAN SOUP

SCOPE 2014, NYC - Fresh Art Served-Up! + Fabulous Microwave Sweet Potatoes

SoHo PHOTO Gallery Exhibits Mid-Career Artists and Emerging Artists + Tomato Soup & Crispy Brussels Sprouts

AIPAD - New York's Fine Art Photography Fair + FOOD: A Simple Cake

Ingredients

Directions

AIPAD, Issue #2 (continued coverage) + FOOD: A Sheet Pan Pecan Pie

A Visual Tour of "Rowan Oak Museum" William Faulkner's Home + FOOD: Pinapple/Coconut Pecan Pie

Affordable Art Fair - NYC, Spring 2014 (Issue 1) + FOOD: Visualize Portion Controls

Affordable Art Fair - NYC, Spring 2014 (Issue 2) + Avocado Strawberry Spinach Salad

Restoration of Gustave Caillebotte’s "Paris Street; Rainy Day" + FOOD "Turkey" Frito Pie

The Big Easy - New Orleans - a Photo Essay

A Dale Chihuly Exhibition at The Clinton Presidential Library & Museum + FOOD: Cajun Shrimp Fettuccine Alfredo

The Future Isn't What It Used to Be! Advertising Artwork from the 1950's + FOOD: Avocado with Spicy Sauce

Dale Chihuly Exhibition at The Denver Botanic Gardens + FOOD: Chilean Seabass with Flame-Roasted Baby Gold Potatoes

Jeff Koons Retrospective at The Whitney + FOOD Shrimp Rémoulade

The Beatles Arrive in U.S. (1964) & Change the World + Food: Bananas Foster

Frieze Art Fair, New York 2014 - Food: Franklinwood Chicken, Tomatoes & Rice

Frieze Art Fair New York, 2014, issue #2 + FOOD: We All Love Caesar Salad

Frieze Art Fair New York, 2014 issue #3