May 2010
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The Candy Wrapper Museum
The founder and curator of the Candy Wrapper Museum began collecting wrappers in 1977 - focusing on finding unusual, ironic, and simply delightful wrappers. While she hasn’t counted her wrappers, she says it’s “HUGE” (as the collection is stored in a stack of boxes nearly 4 feet high).
She admits to eating most of the candy in her collection (and attributes the fact that...
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“The Candy Wrapper Museum, where wrappers are to be enjoyed as art, nostalgia,...”
– Via the Museum’s website
April 2010
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“Leave behind your preconceptions of food and allow the Experimental Food Society...”
– via the Experimental Food Society’s website
What is the Experimental Food Society?
Alexa Perrin founded the Experimental Food Society in January 2010 to showcase the UK’s most talented culinary creators - a group of groundbreaking gourmet artists that prove there is much more to food than just chewing and swallowing.
The Experimental Food Society plans to host both an annual Spectacular and a series of talks throughout the year.
The Experimental Food Society →
March 2010
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"The Art of Food" Details - including location and... →
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Cincinnati's "The Art of Food"
If you’re in the Cincinnati area this week, be sure to check out “The Art of Food” at the Carnegie Center in Covington. The event, which opens Friday, March 5th, (and takes place from 6 - 9 PM), includes collaborations by Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati-area based top chefs and culinary experts along with local artists who have created dynamic “food art.”
A quirky,...
February 2010
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What is Bento Box Art?
According to Squidoo.com, Bento is an art form for packing lunches in the Japanese culture. The Japanese have taken the act of packing a lunch or meal to a whole different level.
Because Bento Boxes come in many different styles: they contain compartments that can either be the same or different sizes AND the boxes themselves come in various materials / themes and shapes, there is a lot that can...
How to Make Your Own Bento Art! →
January 2010
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“As an artist, I always try to design a plate with flows and height, and textures...”
– quote via ny1
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Culinary Art at its Finest
Robert, a new upscale restaurant in NYC’s Columbus Circle, is drawing rave reviews for its picturesque views and sleekly designed interior. However, the pleasing aesthetics don’t stop there. The food itself is also acclaimed for both its beauty and taste.
Executive Chef Brady Duhame, who considers himself an artist, makes sure his plates look unique and beautiful, presenting each...
December 2009
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Chefs Do-Gooders Create Gingerbread Art
Utah Chef Raymond Lammer is creating decadent gingerbread houses - and I’m not talking about the taste (although I’m sure they’re delicious too). The chef - turned Holiday-themed food artist recently completed a 9 foot long, 4 foot wide, 5 foot tall ”Thomas the Tank Engine” gingerbread display. He used 250 pounds of gingerbread, 80 pounds of icing and lots of food...
November 2009
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“Somebody’s going to be sorry,
Somebody’s going to pay,
Somebody’s going to be...”
– A jingle from a commercial that appeared during a 1943 film in the U.K. with a picture of a tablet of soap dissolving away down the sink because it had been left in the water (from Fortunecity)
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"The Ministry of Food"
At first, I found it a little odd that London decided to celebrate the 70th anniversary of its wartime government’s introduction of food rationing, but after realizing that the rationing was a significant historical event, and that the imposed rations lasted for fourteen years after the initial announcement, I became intrigued.
London’s Imperial War Museum has decided to commemorate...
Food Art Feast
Performa ‘09, a month-long biennial performance/ art event, began on November 1st. Jennifer Rubell organized the opening dinner, a feast for a crowd of 700, which incorporated biblical-themed food stations. The creative theme was depicted by three floors representing heaven, earth and hell. The top floor resembled an icy-white heaven; the middle floor, Earth, craftily displayed a...
October 2009
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A Weird Juxtaposition of Food and Art
Next month, a McDonalds will open next to the Louvre’s underground entrance. This recent news has angered art-enthusiasts, collectors, and pretty much all of France, but apparently, placing fast-food restaurants and other chains next to famous sites is nothing new.
From The Guardian:
After 580 years and 24 emperors, Beijing’s Forbidden City got its first franchise in 2000 – a...
September 2009
2 posts
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Le Diners De Gala
In 1973, Salvador Dalí produced a magnificent cookbook entitled “Les diners de Gala”. The book featured recipes that today we would consider rather unappetizing, but also contained incredible illlustrations. It is often referred to as the “Dali Cookbook”. It sets out a surrealist gastro-aesthetics that is at once visceral and ascetic, Dionysian and Catholic. [It]...
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M&M Art
The candy artist Enrique Ramos created a 40 x 30-inch portrait of the Detroit rapper Eminem with, well…. M&Ms.
This portrait even included rare M&Ms from pale blue and white color varieties. There were more than 1000 M&Ms used.
It was acquired by Ripley’s Believe it or Not.
Here’s an article for more information on the Eminem portrait.
August 2009
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Chocolate Art Work
The artist Jean Zaun makes incredible, edible, chocolate creations.
She tells the viewer: Edible chocolate paintings? Edible yes, but meant to be consumed by the eye, not the stomach
Basically, she creates remakes of well-known artworks, but in chocolate:
Mona Lisa-Da Vinci
This one is my favorite: Chocolate sculpture of Van Gogh’s shoe paintings. It was bought by the Toledo Museum...
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ShContemporary09 Shanghai Art Fair 2009
The Asia Pacific Contemporary art fair under the name of ShContemporary09 will take place on September 10-13, 2009.
The art fair will be set up at the Shanghai Exhibition Center (as seen in the above picture), attracting an international gathering of art galleries, artists, and art collectors. ShContemporary debuted in 2007 and proved to be a huge success for the cosmopolitan city...
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Smarties Exhibition at Victoria Albert London
The Victoria and Albert Childhood Museum in London set up a Smarties exhibition, launching Nestle’s new addition of the blue smartie. Artists were asked to make reproductions of artwork using Smarties (making sure to include the new blue color).
Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe replicated
You can see the blue smarties make Marilyn Monroe’s eye shadow
Banksy Street Artist...
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Ingrid Falk and Gustavo Aguerre Toast Art
Ingrid Falk (Swedish) and Gustavo Aguerre (Argentinean) are two artists who make art using toast.
From their website the work entitled “Toaster” is displayed below:
“Bread and food in all forms and meanings are recurrent themes in the work of Falk and Aguerre. They reoccur throughout the years in different projects, prepared, tasted and eaten in different ways, taking...
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CerealArt.com Creates Art out of Cereal
CerealArt.com is a website showing a group of contemporary artists creating artworks out of cereal. The artists are interested in discovering the possibilities presented by consumer culture and its products.
Hank Willis Thomas and Ryan Alexiev have created a portrait of President Barack Obama created with sugary cereals such as Honeycomb, Life and Froot Loops.
However, “consumer...
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The Burger Group Show
The Laundromat Gallery in Brooklyn, New York had an interesting show this past weekend entitled the Burger Group Show.
Artists:
Chris Deo, Sarah McDougald Kohn, Maria Walker, Jonathan Allmaier, Juliane Zelwies, Ben Godward, Joe Protheroe, Ianthe Jackson and Liz Atzberger have given their interpretations on the conceptual burger. Visitors can choose to order from the menu, which conceptual...
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MutualArt.com for all your Food and Art Fantasies
I keep loving the connection between food and art, there’s just so much to excite the senses with! And so much out there I don’t know about (which is why I find my blog so challening, but in a good way…)
Although not entirely about food and art, the website www.MutualArt.com provides a good resource to locate more art for lunch material.
For instance, their search tool is...
July 2009
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an italian painter of the 16th century who actually painted different fruits, vegetables, fish, and other organic objects and placed them on the canvas in such a way that the result resembles a human portrait.
Although slightly strange, maybe deranged, or simply imaginative, these portraits show how double meaning or illusions can be created in these paintings. The fruits...
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Foodscapes with Carl Warner
Carl Warner is a British photographer who creates landscapes made out of food and then photographs the creation. The video below shows a slideshow of his foodscapes. There are broccoli hills, bread mountains, pepper trees, and so much imagination in a world of food. He really uses the textures of food to make us believe they belong as a natural landscape.
Broccoli Hills:
Salmon Seas at...
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Food photography
My post today is inspired by flickr-surfing. I love to see what people post because it always leads to new discoveries. My name on flickr proved to be worthwhile because I stumbled upon beautiful photographs of colorful, elegant, pastries, desserts, and plenty of other yummy delights. Here’s a warning before you look at some of the pictures: make sure you’re not hungry!
It...
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Charm City Cakes
Charm City Cakes makes some of the most innovative, beautiful, and delectable cakes, such as one below.
If this cake is too boring for you, check out some of the other ones.
Yes, these are all 100% edible cakes. Charm City Cakes was established back in 2000 in Baltimore. Chef Duff, who founded the bakery, (cakery) quickly gained reputation for his creative, intricate and delicious...
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food fashion?
I stumbled up a website that featured these uber-simple advertisements for a clothing brand called Pleats. Yes, there may be many out there, but these ads stood out to me especially because it made me want to reach into the screen and take a bite. Below are some of the ads.
How did he know that I LOVE sushi!
Issey Miyake, a Japanese fashion designer, is characterized by...
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Saxton Freymann plays with food
Check out Saxton Freymann, and artist and creator of several children’s books. He encourages play with food and shows us familiar grubs in exciting and unique ways. This is one sure way to get kids to read…
To read about his works, visit his publisher’s website.
June 2009
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Kevin van Aelst
I recently discovered the photographs of Kevin van Aelst, who is a contributing photographer for the New York Times magazine. Here’s an excerpt of his artist statement: My color photographs consist of common artifacts and scenes from everyday life, which have been rearranged, assembled, and constructed into various forms, patterns, and illustrations…This work is about creating order where we...
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Food Party
I just read an article from the New York Times about a bizarre food artist, who is driven by her wild aesthetic and pure, unadultrated love for food. Thu Tran, 27, graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art and now lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. She is the hostess of the series she produces called “Food Party.” In her show, she dresses in different characters and interacts with food...
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"the fruits of his failure, which are among the...
I recently read about an exhibition at the National Gallery featuring Luis Melèndez’ works, and I was surprised by my newfound appreciation for still life genre paintings. His paintings are not grandiose in size or subject, but his careful and analytical approach to representing various fruits and vegetables produced works that are scrumptious. The paintings aren’t clouded by the moral lessons...