Saturday, June 25, 2016

Crystal Bridges Museum Relocates a Frank Lloyd Wright House, as an Exhibition Next to the Museum + FOOD: Mushroom Chicken Schnitzel


ART
Frank Lloyd Wright’s 
Bachman Wilson House
Relocated and Reconstructed 
as an Architectural Exhibit at 
Crystal Bridges


Crystal Bridges Museum, founded and created by Alice Walton, has bought and moved Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bachman Wilson House (c.1954), originally located in Somerset County, N.J. to a plot of land adjacent to the museum in Arkansas. It is so easily accessible, it works as an architectural exhibition of the museum.
Crystal Bridges'
Creator and Founder Alice Walton

Rendering: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bachman Wilson House 
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
is located in the North West Arkansas
town of Bentonville.
There are major interstate highways
and a busy International Airport
within a few miles of the museum's site.


Before the house was purchased by the museum, the three-bedroom, 2,000-square-foot-house had been besieged by flooding from New Jersey's Millstone River. In many ways Crystal Bridges Museum saved the structure from ruin. The museum sent curators and workmen to disassemble and catalog each piece of the house, then shipped it by truck 1000 miles cross-country and rebuilt the structure, mostly using Wright's specifications, in Bentonville, Arkansas. 
The whole process is reminescient of the time The Metropolitan Museum of Art did the same with the ancient Egyptian "Temple of Dendur", saving it from being flooded in Egypt, then transporting it half way around the world and reassembling it at their institution in New York City. A heroic alliance of engineering knowledge, money and respect for cultural and art history.
The Bachman Wilson House was originally commissioned by Abraham Wilson, a research chemist turned patent lawyer and his wife, Gloria Bachman, who had met Wright when he was working on the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The last owners in New Jersey, architects and designers Lawrence and Sharon Tarantino, bought the house in 1988 and spent years faithfully restoring it. To their dismay, repeated flooding and water damage forced them to seek a savior who was willing to buy the home and move it to a suitable location.
Crystal Bridges Museum completed the painstaking project in 2015 and the home, in shiny like-new condition, is now one of the many highlights of visiting the museum.
Editor's Note: If you have not yet made Crystal Bridges a destination for your travels, you should. In this publication's opinion, Crystal Bridges is the most complete American Art experience in the entire United States!


















(Source: All photos in this article are the property of and under the © Copyright of The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. They were used in this article for educational purposes only. Text referenced information from Crystal Bridges Website and from information reported in The New York Times and other online resources.)

FOOD
Mushroom Chicken Schnitzel

Chicken Cutlets served with a Mushroom Sauce
(From the Atkinson Family Cookbook)

This dish started from a craving for Stroganoff, but the mushroom sauce was the real draw, so we ended up making a chicken version of Rahm Schnitzel (basically Wiener Schnitzel - substituting chicken for veal) with a wonderful mushroom sauce. This entrée is delicious and fun to cook.

INGREDIENTS
• 2 chicken cutlets 
butterflied chicken breasts, pound between plastic wrap until 1/4 “.
Note: with the size of today’s chicken breasts today, I think one breast, sliced in-two horizontally, then pounded flat is about right!
• 1 cup lemon juice
• salt & pepper
* 2 eggs (+ 2 Tbs water)
• 1/4 cup flour (approx.)
• 1 cup panko bread crumbs
• 1/4 cup veg. oil + 1/2 stick butter
* sliced lemons for serving
* Standard mushroom and onion cream sauce, like stroganoff but no meat.

DIRECTIONS
For Sauce
• Make the mushroom and onion cream sauce (no meat) like you do for Stroganoff. Place in a serving dish and set aside or refrigerate.
For Cutlets
* In a glass baking dish marinate the flattened cutlets in lemon juice for 1 hour.
(cover with plastic wrap)
* Pat them dry with paper towels
• Season them with salt and pepper on both sides
• Prepare the breading dishes:
#1) 2 eggs whisked with 2 Tbs water 
#2) flour covering the bottom of a pan 
#3) bread crumbs covering the bottom of a pan 
• Dip the seasoned cutlets into the egg, then the flour (shake off the excess), then the bread crumbs (shake off the excess).
• Place them on a cookie sheet, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 20 minutes.
• Heat the butter and oil in a large skillet.
• Cook each cutlet for 3 to 4 minutes per side until brown, turn over using tongs. (We did 4 min on 1st side, then 2 on second side, removed and made a small slice in thickest part, to check for doneness - 2nd one cooked a little faster. Ours plumped up while cooking. Cooking time depends on how thin your cutlets are pounded.)
Serve
• Serve the (chicken) Schnitzel immediately, with lemon wedges and the warm mushroom sauce. (Sauce can be served poured over the cutlets or on the side.)

(Source: The Atkinson Family Cookbook)

Until later,
Jack
ARTSnFOOD is an online magazine dedicated to providing artists and collectors around the world with highlights of current art exhibitions, and to encourage all readers to invest in and participate in "The Joy of Art"® and culture. All rights reserved. All Concepts, Original Art, Text & Photographs in this posting (which are not credited) are © Copyright 2016 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. All gallery, event, museum, fair or festival photographs were taken with permission. Images © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Create a Photo Essay on Your All American Summer Road Trip! + FOOD: Paté Maison

ART
Make Your Own Photo Essay,
Take The All American 
Summer Road Trip!

IT'S SUMMER VACATION TIME! 
Below is a list of landmarks and cultural institutions you can visit in all *48 contiguous United States + D.C., while you take the All American Summer Road Trip! The map was created to show the most economical way (time and distance) to see the USA* in your Chevrolet, SUV or Tesla. 

This is a trip to do when you're young and have few responsibilities, or when you retire and have a brand new R.V., or if you've just been laid off from work, have a severance package and lots of free time on your hands... or just throw up your hands and say "I'm doing this!" Another option is to simply pick one part of the US you want to explore, use this map then research a highway link to form a loop so you can have a wonderful weekend, one or two 
week road trip! 

The greatest pleasure of traveling by car is seeing America at ground level - all of the interesting stuff you've been missing by flying overhead at 30,000 feet! This is a true American Journey, a trip and an education of a lifetime ! 


"Oh, the photo-ops you will stumble upon, on the highways and back roads of America!"



 landscape photo example: for a photo essay. 
This one was taken from the passenger's side of the car, while cruising down the highway!
Photo © Copyright 2016 Jack A. Atkinson

Of course there are no rules to this road trip, start from your favorite state!

1. AZ Grand Canyon • Museum: (Phoenix): Children’s Museum of Phoenix
2. UT Bryce Canyon National Park • Museum: (Salt Lake City): The Leonardo
3. ID Craters of the Moon National Monument • Museum: (Cedar Rapids): Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
4. WY Yellowstone National Park • Museum: (Jackson): National Museum of Wildlife Art
5. CO Pikes Peak • Museum: (Denver): Clyfford Still Museum
6. NM Carlsbad Caverns National Park • Museum: (Santa Fe): Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
7. TX The Alamo • Museum: (Dallas): Frontiers of Flight Museum
8. OK The Platt Historic District • Museum: (Oklahoma City): American Banjo Museum 
9. AR Toltec Mounds • Museum: (Bentonville): Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art - one of the best American Art Museums in the USA! Crystal (bridges.org)
10. TN Elvis Presley’s Graceland • Museum: (Memphis): Metal Museum
11. MS Vicksburg National Military Park • Museum: (Meridian): Jimmie Rodgers Museum
12. LA French Quarter, New Orleans • Museum: (New Orleans): Degas House
13. AL USS Alabama • Museum: (Mobile): History Museum of Mobile 
14. FL Cape Canaveral Air Force Station • Museum: (Miami): Pérez Art Museum Miami 
15. GA Okefenokee Swamp Park • Museum: (Macon): Museum of Arts & Science
16. SC Fort Sumter National Monument • Museum: (Myrtle Beach): Encounters: U.F.O. Experience
17. WV Lost World Caverns • Museum: (Charleston): Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences
18. Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center, NC • Museum: (Raleigh): North Carolina Museum of Art
19. VA Mount Vernon • Museum: (Brattleboro): Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
20. D.C. White House, Washington • Museum: (DC): National Gallery of Art (nga.gov)
21. MD Colonial Annapolis Historic District • Museum: (Baltimore): Geppi’s Entertainment Museum
22. DE New Castle Historic District • Museum: (Dover): Biggs Museum of American Art
23. NJ Cape May Historic District • Museum: (Asbury Park): Silver Ball Museum
24. PA Liberty Bell • Museum: (Philadelphia): Woodmere Art Museum
25. NY The Freedom Tower observatory deck • Museum: (New York): National Museum of Mathematics & The Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC (MetMuseum.org)
26. CT The Mark Twain House & Museum • Museum: (Greenwich): Bruce Museum
27. RI The Breakers • Museum: (Pawtucket): Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame
28. MA USS Constitution • Museum: (Boston): ICA Boston
29. ME Acadia National Park • Museum: (Waterville): Colby Museum of Art
30. NH Mount Washington Hotel • Museum: (Dover): The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire
31. VT Shelburne Farms • Museum: (Brattleboro): Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
32. MI Fox Theater, Detroit • Museum: (East Lansing): Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum
33. OH Spring Grove Cemetery • Museum: (Cincinnati): American Sign Museum
34. KY Mammoth Cave National Park • Museum: (Petersburg): Creation Museum
35. IN West Baden Springs Hotel • Museum: (Indianapolis): Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
36. IL Abraham Lincoln’s Home • Museum: (Chicago): National Museum of Mexican Art & Art Institute of Chicago (artic.edu)
37. MO Gateway Arch • Museum: (Kansas City): American Jazz Museum
38. KS C. W. Parker Carousel Museum • Museum: (Hutchinson): Strataca Kansas Underground Salt Museum (Hays) The Sternberg Museum, dinosaurs! (sternberg.fhsu.edu)
39. IA Terrace Hill Governor’s Mansion • Museum: (Cedar Rapids): Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
40. WI Taliesin • Museum: (Middleton): National Mustard Museum
41. MN Fort Snelling • Museum: (Minneapolis): The Museum of Russian Art
42. NE Ashfall Fossil Bed • Museum: (Hastings): Hastings Museum
43. SD Mount Rushmore • Museum: (Rapid City): Museum of Geology
44. ND Fort Union Trading Post • Museum: (Fargo): Plains Art Museum
45. MT Glacier National Park • Museum: (Helena): Holter Museum of Art
46. WA Hanford Site • Museum: (Seattle): Frye Museum
47. OR Columbia River Highway • Museum: (Eugene): University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History
48. CA n. San Francisco Cable Cars • Museum: (San Jose): The Tech Museum of Innovation
49. CA s. San Andreas Fault, s. CA • Museum: Orange County Museum of Art (ocma.net)
50. NV Hoover Dam • Museum: (Las Vegas): The Neon Museum

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FOOD
Paté Maison
Paté makes a great casual snack when served with toast points and a bottle of wine.

Ingredients:

1/2 lb of chicken or turkey, cut into 1 inch pieces
1/2 lb of bacon, cut into 1 inch pieces
1 clove garlic, cut in half
1 shallot, cut in half
1/4 lb smoked ham, cut into 1 inch pieces
salt
freshly ground pepper
1 egg
tiny pinch of ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon Congnac or other good-quality brandy
1 bay leaf

Directions:

PREHEAT AN OVEN to 400º F. In a food processor fitted with the metal blade, combine the poultry, bacon, garlic and shallot and process until minced. Add the ham, salt and pepper to taste, egg, cinnamon and bandy and process until the ham is finely chopped. 

TRANSFER TO A RECTANGULAR TERRINE.
or a loaf pan with a w-cup capacity, packing it in firmly. Smooth the top with a rubber spatula and press the bay leaf gently into the meat mixture. Bake, uncovered, until the paté has pulled away from the sides of the dish and the top is nicely browned, about 45 minutes.

REMOVE FROM THE OVEN, let cool, cover and refrigerate for 1 day to allow the flavos to develop. Cut into slices and serve. 

(Source: "Celebrating the Pleasures of Cooking" by Chuck Williams)

Until later,
Jack
ARTSnFOOD is an online magazine dedicated to providing artists and collectors around the world with highlights of current art exhibitions, and to encourage all readers to invest in and participate in "The Joy of Art"® and culture. All rights reserved. All Concepts, Original Art, Text & Photographs in this posting (which are not credited) are © Copyright 2016 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. All gallery, event, museum, fair or festival photographs were taken with permission. Images © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.

Saturday, June 11, 2016

FRIEZE ART FAIR, NYC 2016, (Issue #3) + FOOD: Roasted celery root, cabbage & celery leaves, cashew cream sprinkled with dried black lime



ART:
Issue #3
FRIEZE ART FAIR
NYC 2016
More art from this years Frieze Art Fair: the art, the artists, and the new approaches! These works are the cutting edge of art NOW, in 2016, and they are a sampling from galleries located in all of the major art centers of the world.


--lmine Rech Gallery, Paris, Brussels, London

Alfredo Jaar, "I Can't Go On. I'll Go On. 2016, Neon, ed of 36 + 6 ap, 
Galerie Lelong, NYC, Paris

Carsten Holler, Massimo de Carlo, Milan, London, Hong Kong 

Daniel Silver, "Sandy" 2016 BB4 Adel Rootstein mannequin,
Statuario marble, steel, palster, scrim, Firth Street Gallery

David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles

David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles

Dice on music sheet, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, London, New York, Somerset, Los Angeles

Eddie Martinez, ed. of 100


Anne Collier, ed. of 100


Anne Collier, ed. of 100

Karl Holmqvist, ed. of 100


Katherine Bernhardt, ed. of 100

Ged Quinn, "I Am a Dream of My Soul", 2010 
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London



Ged Ged Quinn, "The Rule of Grace", 2016, Oil on linen, Stephen Friedman Gallery



Ged Ged Quinn, "The Rule of Grace", 2016, Oil on linen, Stephen Friedman Gallery detail
Jim Hodges, "Untitled (When we collide)" 2001,
ceramic light sockets and light bulbs mounted on wood and metal panel,
Stephen Friedman Gallery

John Armleder, Massimo de Carlo, Milan, London, Hong Kong

John Armleder, (detail)
Massimo de Carlo, Milan, London, Hong Kong

John Armleder, (detail 2)
Massimo de Carlo, Milan, London, Hong Kong

Fiona Banner, "Verses Versus 2012" Graphite on paper, Frith Street Gallery


John Riddy, "New York 2015", Archival pigment print, ed. of 5, Frith Street Gallery



Mary Reid Kelley, "Priapus Agonistes" 2013, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London

Mary Reid Kelley, mask from "Priapus Agonistes" 2013,
Pilar Corrias Gallery, London

Mary Reid Kelley, mask from "Priapus Agonistes" 2013, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London

Massimo de Carlo, Milan, London, Hong Kong1

sculpture at Massimo de Carlo, Milan, London, Hong Kong

Matt Connors, ed. of 100

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, Los Angeles
Mouse detail, Matthew Marks Gallery

Matthew Monahan,
Massimo de Carlo, Milan, London, Hong Kong

Peter Halley, "Regression", 2015, Florescent Acrylic and Roll-a-Texture on canvas, Sommer Contermporary Art

Roni Horn, "Untitled", Solid cast glass with as-cast surfaces with oculus, Hauser & Wirth


RxArt bags

RxArt Puzzles designed by Yayoi Kusama, Dan Colen and Terry Richardson,
all procees go to pediatric hospitals

Words on the Wall at Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels


Vik Muniz, "Seated Boy, after Georges Seurat (Charcoal), Traces 2016,
Charcoal drawing over archival pigment print, ed. of 10, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. detail

detail, Vik Muniz, "Seated Boy, after Georges Seurat (Charcoal),
 Traces 2016, Charcoal drawing over archival pigment print, ed. of 10,
Sikkema Jenkins & Co. detail

Walter Oltmann, "child skull II" 2015, Woven 1mm aluminium wire, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Cape Town

Detail for 3/d metal mesh drawing
Walton Ford, Schatten, 2016, watercolor, gouache and ink on paper, 60 x 80 inches,
 Paul Kasmin Gallery, NYC


Wayne Gonzales, "Tarmac, JFK, New York City" 2015, acrylic on canvas, Stephen Friedman Gallery

Detail of brush work for art above by Wayne Gonzales,
"Tarmac, JFK, New York City" 2015,
acrylic on canvas, Stephen Friedman Gallery

William Kentridge, Ink on pre-printed pages, 
Marian Goodman Gallery

William Kentridge, Ink on pre-printed pages, 
Marian Goodman Gallery

detail, William Kentridge, Ink on pre-printed pages

William Kentridge, wall sculpture, 
Marian Goodman Gallery 

William Kentridge, ink drawing, Marian Goodman Gallery

FOOD:
Roasted celery root, 
with blanched cabbage,
celery leaves, and
savory cashew cream 
then sprinkled with
ground dried black lime


This Roasted Celery Root dish is "roll-your-eyes-back" good!
It is a combination of the roasted celery root mixed with blanched cabbage leaves and small fresh celery leaves served on a base of savory cashew cream, then sprinkled with crushed dried black lime.

Roasted Celery Root:
INGREDIENTS
  • 4 lbs about 3 celery root (sometimes called celeriac) 
  • 1/3 cup vegetable oil 
  • 2 teaspoons salt 
DIRECTIONS
  1. Preheat oven to 425°F 
  2. Trim and peel celery root and cut into 1-inch pieces. 
  3. In a large roasting pan toss celery root with oil and salt and roast in middle of oven 30 minutes. 
  4. Stir celery root and reduce temperature to 375°F 
  5. Roast celery root, stirring after the 30 minutes, 1 hour more
The Celery Root is served with blanched cabbage leaves and some fresh celery leaves all with a savory cashew cream as a base. Then sprinkled with tangy black lime.


Savory (or sweet) Cashew Cream
INGREDIENTS:
  • 1 cup  (150 g) raw cashews
  • 1/2 – 3/4 cup (125 – 190 ml) filtered water (add more water according to consistency desired)
  • Savory Cashew Cream
  • Juice of 1/2 lemon
  • 1/2 tsp. sea salt
  • 1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar (optional)
  • 1 garlic clove (optional)
  • 1 tbsp olive oil (optional)
  • Sweet Cashew Cream
  • 2-4 tbsp honey or pure maple syrup
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
DIRECTIONS:
  • Soak the cashews in filtered water for 3 hrs or more then strain.
  • Add the cashews and fresh filtered water to the blender or food processor and blend until smooth.
  • Add remaining ingredients depending on whether you were making a sweet or savory cream, then blend until smooth.
  • Savory Cashew Cream can be used as a pizza topping, to a healthy pasta dish, over vegetables, baked dishes, casseroles, healthy Mexican meals, as a salad dressing (this can be thinned down with extra olive oil) or anywhere were you may have added a savory creamy sauce!
  • Sweet Cashew Cream can be drizzled over fruit and healthy desserts
Dried Black Lime
Dried lime (also known as: black lime; is a lime that has lost its water content, usually after having spent a majority of their drying time in the sun. They are used whole, sliced or ground, as a spice in Middle Eastern dishes.

Blanched Cabbage
• Simple blanched cabbage process:
• Pierce the core of your fresh cabbage, tough outer leaves removed, with a two-pronged fork. 
• Get a big pot. Fill the pot up half way with water. Bring the water to a boil. Salt the water.
• Place a colander over a sheet pan next to the stove.
• Place the head of cabbage in the water with the fork and turn it all around to blanch the outer leaves. As the cabbage softens (a minute or two), lift the head from the water. Let the water run out of it. Use a paring knife to cut away the outer leaves over the colander, leaving them in the colander to drain.
• Place the cabbage back into the boiling water and repeat, cutting off all of the layers of leaves until you’ve reached the core of the cabbage where the leaves are too small and curly to use.
• There will be about 20 leaves, some will be bright green, others yellow, all are good to serve.

(Source: Original Recipe from The Atkinson Family Recipe Book)


Until later,
Jack
ARTSnFOOD is an online magazine dedicated to providing artists and collectors around the world with highlights of current art exhibitions, and to encourage all readers to invest in and participate in "The Joy of Art"® and culture. All rights reserved. All Concepts, Original Art, Text & Photographs in this posting (which are not credited) are © Copyright 2016 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. All gallery, event, museum, fair or festival photographs were taken with permission. Images © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.