From a soundscape of the changing sounds of the market to a communal lunch, Active Cultures will get you to reflect on this 100-year-old space.
Food Art
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In LA, Artists Serve Up a Diverse Take on Food Culture
Offal, a show named after innards, ought to have some messy moments and blunt edges, and it luckily does.
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Revitalizing the Culture of Palestinian Food
The Palestine Hosting Society project, founded and directed by Mirna Bamieh, usually begins with research into a city or family’s food practices and culminates in a hosted “table,” where this research is presented to a group of invited guests.
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The Art of Eating Cherry Blossoms (with Recipes)
A normal artist would just take a picture of the cherry tree.
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The Sculptural Desserts of an Architect–Turned–Pastry Chef
Dinara Kasko incorporates 3D modeling and printing technology into her quasi-Minimalist confectionary.
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Martin Parr Photographs Real, Sad Food
Limp slices of bread smeared with butter, a single sausage lounging in orange soup, a presentation of pork knuckles resembling discarded brains — this is far from the stuff you’d find on the menu of your local farm-to-table eatery filled with upcycled furniture.
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Keith Haring in Corn, and Other Artistic Thanksgiving Plates
This Thanksgiving, up your plating game and with some artist-inspired dishes courtesy of San Francisco-based artist Hannah Rothstein.
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Display of Canned Parrot Meat Ruffles Feathers in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO — PETA and animal lovers can relax: the meat within the metal isn’t real. The cans are (of course) part of an art installation.
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The Many Challenges of Dining with Animals
ALBUQUERQUE — Last June, Catherine Harris and her family were at the tail end of a rocky 23-day working vacation in northern Denmark when a bee stung the older of her two children, a daughter who fell to her knees and began shaking her head in pain.
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Artists Serve Up the Radical Power of Eating
MINNEAPOLIS — I have to admit, I was a little wary of going to see an art exhibition that I presumed would consist of leftovers from a one-off, amazing, artist-led dinner, a show littered with lengthy documents about a great event I missed.
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The Limits of What We Can Learn from Food-Themed Art
Food, broadly defined, is a necessary sustenance that may also incorporate artistic practice — cooking, cuisine, and presentation.
