Category Archives: VERY CULINARY

Eggleston =”COLOR” & Leeks = Diet Food

  ART – “William Eggleston is widely recognized as a master of color photography, a poet of the mundane, and proponent of the democratic treatment of his subjects. His inventive use of color and spontaneous compositions profoundly influenced a generation of photographers.” LACMA   I met William Eggleston in Memphis, Tennessee when I was the […]

Leonardo’s Last Supper Recreated & New Year’s Black-Eyed Peas for Good Luck

ART –  Now Showing Leonardo’s Last Supper Recreated on Park Ave. Inside the Park Avenue Armory, NYC, Peter Greenaway has perfectly recreated Milan’s Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery refectory and its famous 1498 cracked plaster fresco painting, Leonardo DaVinci’s “Last Supper” at its exact size.  Although, one of the most famous paintings in the world, […]

Comment on the Christmas Blog

Many people enjoyed the Christmas Issue and commented on it directly to me. FOOD We cooked The Duckling Christmas Dinner* for our Christmas! Everyone who has the opportunity, should try all or a part of this meal for their next dinner party or formal family meal. Mmmmmm! Hope your Christmas was memorable! Because of the […]

Christmas – Santa by Haddon “Sunny” Sundblom – A NEW Christmas Day Dinner

ABOVE: Bing Crosby sings White Christmas, from the movie “Holiday Inn”.  (Clip is quite long, consider listening to the audio while you go on through this issue.) TRUE STORY: At one time, I was the Corporate Art Director for Holiday Inns, International. A little known fact is, “Holiday Inn” was written, as a joke, in the project […]

Did Norman Rockwell Trace? & Dining in a Rockwell Painting

Book: Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera $40.00 NOW SHOWING AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera During the first half of the 20th Century, radio brought news and music into American homes but the visuals, for adults, came through the mail, in the form of slick national magazines. The Illustrators who decorated these […]

Think Small at The Whitney & Dinner Party, No Cooking!

Charles LeDray   Mini – Sculpture at The Whitney ART – NOW SHOWING AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART “workworkworkworkwork” by Charles LeDray One day last month I walked into the Whitney Museum on Madison Ave. in NYC, without knowing what I was going to see.  I stepped off the elevator into the giant foyer […]

Museum SHOPping #2 & Corner Grocery/Cafe of Your Dreams

At the Vesterneim Norwegian American Museum http://store.vesterheim.org/product_info.php?cPath=35_39_340&products_id=2267 Sølje Brooch #2 (Silver with Silver Spoons) 3032   $66.00 This Museum Shop Gift Guide has quite a number of pictures. Enjoy these unique gift ideas and share this link (www.ARTSnFOOD.blogspot.com) with your friends.  At the Field Museum in Chicago http://store.fieldmuseum.org/browse.cfm/2,32.html   Lotus Slippers Red Cotton  w/ Birds & Flowers / […]

Having a Party, Party at ART BASEL – MIAMI

Inspired by comic books, movie posters, surfer art, hot rod illustration, etc. the work of   ROBERT WILLIAMS at Tony Shafrazi Gallery   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CSN9AUN_yM&NR=1 (FUN WITH artist TONY OURSLER, click on link above, use the back arrow to return to this blog.)   There is a debate in the art world as to which city […]

Hopping Around 26th Gallery Openings & Late Night Chance of Meatballs

ART- Art Openings There were many art openings in the Chelsea Arts District of NYC this past Thursday, but 26th Street shined for me and was a good use of my two hours, the 6-8 pm openings. Lee Krasner, student of Hans Hoffman and wife of Mega-AbEx-Artist Jackson Pollock has her beautiful burnt umber Abstract […]

OMG MoMA, GR8 AbExNY! NISM?

Detail of a Jackson Pollock drip painting.   ART Abstract Expressionist New York currently showing at MoMA. October 3, 2010–April 25, 2011 When I say MoMA owns this genre of Art History, I mean literally that, THEY OWN ALL OF THE ARTWORK in this show, which is the largest amount of space MoMa has ever […]