It's Super Bowl Week - Is there Football Art? + FOOD: Hot Wings!

Football Players, 1942, Alfred Bendiner, American 1899 - 1964 © Philidelphia Museum of Art

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American

FOOTBALL & ART

With the Super Bowl (An Unofficial American Holiday) being played this weekend, here is a quick look at football art.

Which has more attendance in the USA, football or art?

The AAMD (Assoc. of Art Museum Directors) museums logged 61,457,283 visitors last in 2013, compared to 17.3 million stadium attendees for all NFL football games in the 2013/2014 season. AH! In the US, Art Museums are better attended than Pro-Football games! Now the TV & Radio audience IS another story!

Man's University of Pennsylvania Football Sweater, American Mfg.
Collection of The Philidelphia Museum of Art

One of the Oldest Collectable Football Art = Player Cards!

Jim Thorp

Hal Giancanelli

Jack Kemp

Jim Parker

Jim Brown

Installation Artist: Shaun El C. Leonardo
amid his "Bull in the Ring" work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

"Bull in the Ring" is a specific training routine banned from American football on the high school and collegiate levels. In its original form, the team would form a revolving circle, as one player, the matador, would be chosen to enter the center of the ring. The coach would then randomly choose players to play the part of the bull and charge at the player in the center, possibly catching him off-guard, to deliver a blow. The object of this practice was for the center player (matador) to develop better alertness, "keeping his head on a swivel" in order to defend himself.

A panel from "The Kin-der-Kids" Sunday Comic Strip
The Chicago Sunday Tribune, c.1906.

TRAVEL 

Off to the Phoenix Super Bowl.

(Source: New York Times By Emily Btrnnan- link:  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/travel/seeing-phoenix-for-the-super-bowl-and-beyond.html?action=click&contentCollection=Travel&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article  Edited for length.)

Football fans are flying into Phoenix this week to attend the Super Bowl on Sunday and the citizens of Phoenix are ready for the revelry. The temperatures should be in the 70s, instead of the 100s. Phoenix has transformed downtown into a pedestrian area, where Super Bowl revelers can walk around with cocktails, catch free concerts, climb a rock wall, and watch fireworks. The Roosevelt Row Arts District, just north of downtown has vintage clothing shops and art galleries.

When hungry go to the Welcome Diner for burgers and chicken/biscuit sandwiches or to FilmBar, where you can drink while watching movies, or Phoenix Public Market - an open-air market and cafe. A favorite Mexican restaurant is the Barrio Café featuring great guacamole and you can watch the Super Bowl at Culinary Dropout at the Yard, a complex of three restaurants with a patio with games like Ping-Pong and shuffleboard plus large television screens for Super Bowl viewing.

FOOD

WINGS

Football Food!

Buffalo Hot Wings

(Source Allrecipes.com, link: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/baked-buffalo-wings/ 

By Leesah) 

"These easy to make hot wings are crispy without being fried. Always yummy to snack on. They only take 10 minutes for prep, but need to be refrigerated for about an hour so the flour coating is firm. You can add more cayenne or use a higher hot sauce to butter ratio if you like them spicier! Enjoy."

Ingredients

Makes 20 chicken wings

• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 
  1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 
  1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 
  1/2 teaspoon salt

• 20 chicken wings
• 
  1/2 cup melted butter
• 
  1/2 cup hot pepper sauce (such as Frank's RedHot®)

Directions

• Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil, and lightly grease with cooking spray. Place the flour, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, and salt into a resealable plastic bag, and shake to mix. Add the chicken wings, seal, and toss until well coated with the flour mixture. Place the wings onto the prepared baking sheet, and place into the refrigerator. Refrigerate at least 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Whisk together the melted butter and hot sauce in a small bowl. Dip the wings into the butter mixture, and place back on the baking sheet. Bake in the preheated oven until the chicken is no longer pink in the center, and crispy on the outside, about 45 minutes. Turn the wings over halfway during cooking so they cook evenly.

Until later, 
Jack

ARTSnFOOD, is an online publication dedicated to "The Pursuit of Happiness through the Arts and Food." ™ All rights reserved for all Original Concept, Original Art, Original Text & "Original or Assigned Photography" only those items in this blog are © Copyright 2015 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. Artworks featured are © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.

Tomma Abts: Mainly Drawings (Aspen Art Museum Exhibition) + FOOD Buttermilk CHESS PIE

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"Tomma Abts: 
Mainly Drawings" 
Aspen Art Museum Exhibition

Tomma Abts creates her paintings and drawings using a rigorous process that combines the rational with the intuitive. Starting with no external source material and no preconceived idea of the final result, Abts makes complex abstract compositions that ultimately take as their subject the process of their own creation. Her exhibition at the AAM is the first to survey the artist’s extensive drawing practice. It features forty-one works from 1996 to the present—many never before exhibited—and includes new works created specifically for the exhibition.

(Source: Aspen Art Museum Exhibition information and AAM website, all photos taken by ARTSnFOOD staff with permission.)

FOOD
Buttermilk
CHESS PIE

INGREDIENTS

1/2c buttermilk
1 3/4c sugar 
2 large eggs
3 tbsp flour
1 pinch of salt 
1 stick butter melted 
1 tsp vanilla 
1 tsp nutmeg 

DIRECTIONS


Preheat oven to 400°. Mix everything together and pour into an unbaked 9" pieshell. Sprinkle the top lightly with nutmeg. Bake 15min. Reduce oven to 350° and bake 45min. Cool to allow filling to set. 

Until later, 

Jack

ARTSnFOOD, is an online publication dedicated to "The Pursuit of Happiness through the Arts and Food." ™ All rights reserved for all original Concept, Original Art, Original Text & "Original or Assigned Photography" are © Copyright 2015 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.

Selected Art Videos from Various Museums + FOOD: Ham Broth & Vegetables

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"Late Rembrandt"

Exhibition at the 

Rijksmuseum

Crystal Bridges

through the eyes 

of P. Allen Smith

DAM

The Denver Art Museum

and Nick Cave's Graphic

Explosion of Movement

75 Years of The

Walker Art Center

Minneapolis, MN 

The Art Institute of Chicago

Impressionism +

An Encycolpedic Museum


x




x

The Modern

an art museum in

Fort Worth, Texas

3D Autocad

The Guggenheim, Bilbao - Spain

Hokusai at LACMA

(Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Ellsworth Kelly at LACMA

MoMA - 20th Century

Abstract Expressionism

MoMA - Matisse Cut Outs

(Video from the Tate in London / same exhibition)

Picasso at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Velazquez Rediscovered (Metropolitan Museum)

Washington, D.C.: A Day at the Art Museums

(Source: All videos in this issue are posted by the museums onto YouTube.)

FOOD: 
Ham Broth & 
Vegetables

The next time you buy a spiral ham and enjoy it, put the bone with whatever meat is left on it into a large stock pot, add some water and boil it for a few hours, refreshing the water when needed. The broth that is rendered can be magnificent.

To this broth add your selection of vegetables and simmer all for 5 minutes, just to blanch and remove some stiffness. Squeeze in the juice of half a lemon and taste for seasoning, add salt and pepper if needed. (Hams are generally salty, and I like to add a shake or two of Tabasco Sauce, a grind or two of fresh pepper and a Tablespoon of ground tarragon.)

Serve on a cold winter night, with some crusty bread with butter. 

Vegetable Suggestions: all fresh or frozen, not canned

1 cup shelled peas 
1 1/4 cups sugar snap peas, trimmed and cut into smaller pieces
1 cup thinly sliced carrots
1 cup thinly sliced baby turnips
1 cup diced asparagus
1 tablespoon ground tarragon
Garnish with a little chopped flat leaf parsley

Until later, 

Jack

ARTSnFOOD, is an online publication dedicated to "The Pursuit of Happiness through the Arts and Food." ™ All rights reserved for all original Concept, Original Art, Original Text & "Original or Assigned Photography" are © Copyright 2015 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.

Natl. Western Stock Show & Rodeo = A Different Kind of Parade + FOOD: Garlic Mashed Cauliflower

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A PHOTO ESSAY

The National Western Stock Show & Rodeo has a "different" kind of parade through a modern day canyon of office buildings in Denver, Colorado.

The recent National Western Stock Show and Rodeo Parade through Downtown Denver, Colorado was unlike most other city parades. For 45 minutes 17th Street in downtown Denver was transformed into the wild west of Denver's past. A cattle drive through these streets with hundreds of cowboys and cowgirls on horseback would have been the norm 150 years ago, but they are out of place now, as the various animals trot along the pavement.

This National Western Stock Show and Rodeo's annual parade marks the start of its 109th year of celebrating "all-that-is-western", open to the public from January 10th through the 25th. The National Western is considered the “Super Bowl” of America's Livestock Shows, World-Class Horse Shows and Professional Rodeos (with crowd pleasers like mutton bustin' and super dogs) plus over 300 events during its fifteen days. 

The stock show will offer dozens of livestock competitions, where the owners lovingly groom, fuss over and blow-dry their favorite critter, then present them to some very picky judges, all vying for a ribbon or best in show! Hundreds of vendors are set up to sell everything a ranch family could dream of needing and the food concessions seem to concentrate on BBQ and many types of sweet treats.

To this day, the city and many of its residents leave their Christmas/Holiday lights up to make Denver's environment festive for the thousands of National Western visitors.

This year's parade took place on a sunny day, sandwiched between the more normal snow storms and subfreezing temps, a time affectionately known as "Stock Show Weather". Ahhhh! Colorado in January!

Now, enjoy this photo essay featuring one of Denver's best traditions linking the old west with this present-day, 21st century city.

(Source: Above photos are © Copyright 2015 Jack A. Atkinson, all rights reserved.)

FOOD

Garlic Mashed Cauliflower

Ingredients
1 medium head cauliflower
1 tablespoon cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup grated Parmesan
1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
1/4 cup home-made chicken broth
1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh or dry chives, for garnish
3 tablespoons unsalted butter

Directions
- Clean and cut cauliflower into small pieces.

Cooking Options:

- (a) Set a stockpot of water to boil over high heat. Cook in boiling water for about 6 minutes, or until well done. Drain well; do not let cool and pat cooked cauliflower very dry between several layers of paper towels.

- (b) Try roasting the garlic and adding a little fresh rosemary for a whole new taste.

- In a bowl with an immersion blender, or in a food processor, puree the cooked cauliflower with the cream cheese, Parmesan cheese, garlic, chicken broth, and pepper until almost smooth.
- Garnish with chives, and serve hot with pats of butter.

Until later, 

Jack

ARTSnFOOD, is an online publication dedicated to "The Pursuit of Happiness through the Arts and Food." ™ All rights reserved for all original Concept, Original Art, Original Text & "Original or Assigned Photography" are © Copyright 2015 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.