Wednesday, May 22, 2013

COMPLETE TABLE of CONTENTS for All ARTSnFOOD issues to date.

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

How do artists, writers, actors, singers and musicians get a minimum wage job & live in NYC? + Hot Dogs!

Furnished room (1 chair + dresser drawers) space to make a pallet and sleep.
Bushwick, Brooklyn. $1075.00

 THE ARTS:

 Here is a quick post just for fun.
How DO artists, writers, actors, singers and musicians get a minimum wage job & STILL live in NYC?

 Here is a link to some of NYC's most humble living quarters in the Blog:

THE WORST ROOM - NYC 

A BLOG ABOUT TRYING TO FIND AFFORDABLE

HOUSING IN NEW YORK CITY

Enjoy!
One of four sleeping nooks - share bathroom & fridge - basement level.
(Do you really need to see inside the rooms?)
East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. $1249.00

Rent a bed  (2 bunk beds) share small room with three others. Female only!
“The space is small, but the rent is only $649 per month”
Upper West Side, Manhattan.
Air Space bedroom, over another's loft bedroom
Williamsburg, Brooklyn. $750.00
Downside: You cannot stand up!
SEE MORE AT THE BLOG:
http://theworstroom.tumblr.com/

VIDEOS about living in small spaces (more upscale):



(above) $800 per month for 78 sq. feet. Midtown Manhattan.

Graham Hill's experimental lab for small apartment living.
If you have options, buy a small 450 sq. ft. condo that will allow work. (All condos have rules, so check! Also many apts. for sale in Manhattan are COOP buildings with extreme control over what you can do and even if they want you as their neighbor.) OR get a long lease on an apt. and if it doesn't bother you to spend thousands of dollars improving someone else's investment - below is a great solution.



More on Graham Hill's project - from the beginning...

ABC news feature on small apartment living.
(Link http://youtu.be/7wBnMVwsFS8)



FOOD:
HOT DOGS!!!
An America's favorite:
"The Oscar Mayer Wiener Mobile"
There is always a new model
driving around America somewhere! 

 It is best not ot think about hot dogs too much or the realization of what you are actually eating my enter your consciousness. And yet salty, savory hot dogs are so delicious and you can eat them with one hand, so we forget all of the bad and eat our hot dogs - mostly in the summer!

 In a recent taste test here are the BEEF wiener winners!

#1: Nathan's Beef Franks With Natural Casings (Recommended)
Comments: "A fine standard." "Enjoyable. Perfect level of sweetness." "Beefy." "Salty and garlicky." "Lightly flavored." 

#2: Sabrett Skinless Beef Frankfurters (Recommended)
Comments: "Very skinny, very salty. Would hold up well to a nice spicy mustard." "Pleasant -- good texture." "Very chewy." "It's got a lot of snap." 

#3: Applegate Farms: The Great Organic Beef Hot Dog (Recommended)
Comments: "Love this -- almost has a sausage-like flavor." "Oh-so-slight spice." "Has a soy sauce-like taste." "Lots of spices." "Tastes of crushed red peppers." 

#4: Nathan's Skinless Beef Franks
Comments: "Sweet! Is there sugar in here?" "Very sweet." "Good salty-sweet combination." "Overly sweet but would be enjoyable with salty toppings." 

#5: Boar's Head
Comments: "This has some serious snap." "A great standard hot dog." "Good, but a little too greasy." "Salty and gristly, unfortunately." 

#6: Hebrew National 97% Fat Free Beef Franks
Comments: "Soft and limp." "The texture seems very processed." "Soft and slimy texture." "Pleasantly different from the rest. Less overly-spiced." 

#7: Oscar Mayer Classic Beef Franks
Comments: "A little on the salty side, but still good." "Nice smoky sweetness." "Good snap." 

#8: Woodson and James Skinless
Comments: "Seriously heavy flavor." "Strong hot dog aftertaste." "Very tender." "Weird orange color, but better flavor." "A typical hot dog -- I'd grill it." 

#9: Coleman
Comments: "Is this breakfast sausage? I love it anyway." "Deeper flavor than most." "Vinegar-like taste." "A little bit sour." "More like breakfast sausage than a hot dog." 

#10: Kobe Beef America
Comments: "Lackluster, but a good vehicle for toppings." "Great saltiness." "Smoky and salty. Very classic." "Like rubber." "Tastes 'beefy' but not like a hot dog." 

#11: Ball Park Deli Style Beef Franks
Comments: "Too bland and bologna-like." "Nice layer of salt." "Not much flavor." "Slightly sweet." "Tastes like a cheap hot dog. Not bad, but not great." 

#12: Ball Park Beef Franks
Comments: "Very bologna-like." "Feels like it would be fabulous grilled." "What is this?" "Too salty." 

#13: Ball Park Angus Beef Franks
Comments: "Spicy and heavily meaty." "Weird artificial taste." "Too salty and strange." "Awful sponge-like texture." "A little scary to chew through." 

#14: Woodson & James Angus Beef Natural Casing
Comments: "I like the taste, but not the strange orange color." "Tastes like dog food." 

#15: Hebrew National Beef Franks
Comments: "I can actually see white pieces of fat when I bite in -- you lost me there." "Chewy, awful and mushy." "Not flavorful and very soft." "Strange, mealy texture." "Tastes like beef jerky, with strange granules of fat in it." 




 Until later,
Jack
ARTSnFOOD, is an online publication dedicated to "The Pursuit of Happiness in the Arts and in Food." ™ All rights reserved. above photos from the worst room.tumblr.com, Otherwise Concept, Original Art, Text & "Original Assigned Photography" are © Copyright 2013 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. All art gallery, museum, art fair or art festival photographs were used with permission. Images © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.
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Monday, May 13, 2013

Frieze Art Fair New York - Second Edition 2013 (Part 1)

At FRIEZE
Standard Gallery from Oslo showed Chadwick Rantanen's intriguing installation
which was made up of oil paint floated onto water to create abstract patterns. Eight tubs of water were lined up on the floor, side by side, each created its own "nonobjective painting" on the surface which was viewed from above, as a series.

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The second edition of Frieze New York has come and gone. ARTSnFOOD plans extensive coverage of this art fair after some intense editing to get the show down to a manageable size. 

 For (Frieze NY 2013 Part 1) we have shown only the first few pieces everyone encounters as they walk through the south entrance of the huge Frieze Art Fair tent on Randall's Island, NYC. This is just a taste of the art in this huge fair, more will be posted soon.
Standard Gallery from Oslo - Aaron Garber Maikovska
"line" painting
Standard Gallery from Oslo
Day Glow Painting by Gardar Eide Einarsson 

Standard Gallery from Oslo
Aaron Garber Maikovska
"line" painting



DOUG AITKEN
"ART" (white)
2012
High Density Foam, Wood, Paint and Mirror
30 1/8" x 96" x 3 5/8"
303 Gallery NYC
DOUG AITKEN
"ART" (white)
- Side View -

Stylized Deer Face with real antlers
Galeria Fortes Vilaca

Galeria Fortes Vilaca
mesh sewn onto wooden forms

Fortes Vilaca Gallery (detail)

Fortes Vilaca Gallery (detail)

Alex Katz • Oil on Canvas
Floral AKZ 1531
112" x 92"
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Paris / Salzburg



Thomal Bayrle
cars cars cars
"Scheibenwisher" 2013
animated sculpture
Windscreen wipers, electrical drive, metal construction & speakers (with sound playing)
Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna

{shown in the background}
"Untitled"
B/W photos on Baryta Paper by Gerald Domenig
Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna

Gabriel Kuri
"Three Landscapes" 2010
nylon banner with glass bottle
Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy

Gabriel Kuri
"Three Landscapes" 2010
detail - close up of bottle

"We once were a union, look at us now"
Untitled Gallery, NYC

South Entrance Information Booth
Frieze NY 2013
More coverage of this Frieze Art Fair NY 2013 to come soon.

Until later,
Jack

ARTSnFOOD, is an online publication dedicated to "The Pursuit of Happiness in the Arts and in Food." ™ All rights reserved. Concept, Original Art, Text & "Original Assigned Photography" are © Copyright 2013 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. All art fair photographs were taken and used with the permission of the fair. Images © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.
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Friday, May 10, 2013

A video look inside the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening at Sotheby's in NY - May 7, 2013


WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF ALEX & ELISABETH LEWYT
ACHIEVED $88.6 MILLION
A LÉGER PAINTING FROM THE COLLECTION OF MADONNA 
SOLD FOR $7.2 MILLION
TO BENEFIT HER RAY OF LIGHT FOUNDATION
NEW YORK, 7 May 2013 – Exceptional works from prominent estate collections drove Sotheby’s Evening sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York to a strong total of $230,040,000, nearing its pre-sale high estimate of $235.1 million*. Both the sale total and the sell-through rate of 84.5% rank among Sotheby’s highest in this category in recent years, worldwide.

Simon Shaw, Head of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art department in New York, commented: “Tonight’s results affirm the vibrancy of the truly global market for Impressionist and Modern art. We had the privilege of offering an extraordinary group of works from estate collections, which attracted collectors with remarkably consistency across media, styles and periods. We saw a great deal of activity in the room, on the phones and online, with bidders from 35 countries participating – this includes the greatest participation from Latin America and Asia that we have ever witnessed in an evening sale of Impressionist and Modern art at Sotheby’s.” 

 (This continues in the next blog down.)
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Thursday, May 9, 2013

A video look inside the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening at Sotheby's in NY + Black Bean Vegan Burger




Food
Smokin’ Black-eyed Sandwich


This is a perfect example of vegetarian burger that stands on its own. You can use a yogurt sauce.  Something with tomato and cucumber would draw down the heat nicely. When it is a sandwich it goes well with crunchy shoestring fries and you can stack the fries right between the bread and burger for a nice crunch.
Serves 6
2 each 14 oz. cans black eyed peas, drained
1/2 to 2/3 cup rice flour
1/2 onion minced
2 cloves of garlic, chopped
3/4 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
kosher salt and fresh ground pepper
2 carrots, peeled and grated, about 1 cup
lettuce, shaved
vegetable oil
bread, buns or pitas
mayonnaise or you choice of condiment
1. Place the drained peas, 1/2 cup rice flour, onion, garlic, thyme, cayenne and a 1/2 teaspoon of kosher salt and some fresh ground pepper into the bowl of a food processor. I like the mix to maintain some chunkiness but it is important for it to be fairly smooth so it holds together. Add up to 1/3 cup more rice flour as needed. So process until smooth but it doesn’t by any means need to be perfectly smooth. Add the carrots and mix, not process, them in thoroughly with a spatula. I like to let this sit for at least an hour so the rice flour has time to hydrate and thicken the mix so it stays together better. You could even cover it and refrigerate overnight. If it seems loose before you are getting ready to cook it add more rice flour.

2. Heat a large non-stick skillet over medium high heat. Add the oil and let it get hot. Form the mix into 6 balls and then shape them into patties. Fry then until crispy on both sides. Build you sandwiches and serve.
(Source -  Tom Hirschfeld of bonafidefarmfood.com)

Until later,
Jack
ARTSnFOOD, is an online publication dedicated to "The Pursuit of Happiness in the Arts and in Food." ™ All rights reserved. Concept, Original Art, Text & "Original Assigned Photography" are © Copyright 2013 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. All art gallery, museum, art fair or art festival photographs were used with permission. Images © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.
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Friday, May 3, 2013

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Serves Up Norman Rockwell & Ceasar Salad


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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Norman Rockwell 
Showing 50 of his Original Paintings and 
all 323 of his Saturday Evening Post Covers

The amazing Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art located in Bentonville, Arkansas is now hosting an exhibition of one of America's most popular artists, Norman Rockwell (1894-1978).

Over the past 50 to 75 years 99% of all America adults knew the names of only two artists: Norman Rockwell and Picasso. Picasso represented the modern art they didn't understand and Rockwell represented the art they understood and loved. A squeaky clean, moral and shined-up America - he created an America the way Americans wanted to see themselves.

Norman Rockwell was a gifted storyteller, a silent raconteur. If a normal picture is worth a thousand words, Rockwell's pictures were worth tens of thousands of words. The artist had a knack for telling a complete, yet simple story, in every painting - the beginning, middle and the end, it was all there. "I love to tell stories in pictures." Rockwell is quoted as saying, "To me, the story is the first thing and the last thing." He didn't have to worry about his technique and painting skills distracting from the story he wanted to tell, Rockwell seemed to have possessed complete mastery of art, especially his enhanced realistic style, from his first assignment on.

Before photography started dominating journalism in the 1950's, illustration was KING and Rockwell's paintings graced more than 300 covers of the Saturday Evening Post magazine. All 323 of Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post covers are on view in this exhibition.

Include in the exhibition are several beloved and well-known paintings, including Triple Self-Portrait (1960), Girl at Mirror (1954), Going and Coming (1947), and The Art Critic (1955). Also included are paintings of presidents: Lincoln as a courtroom lawyer, a Dwight D. Eisenhower portrait, a Nixon portrait and a John F. Kennedy portrait. Plus: Original famous posters from "FDR's FOUR FREEDOMS" (1943), and the painting: "Boy in a Dining Car" (1946). In the 1960's Rockwell was commissioned to cover both the turbulence of the times ("Murder in Mississippi" -1965 painted for a Look Magazine story) and the excitement of the space program.  
Exhibition Overview:
Everyone will enjoy this exhibition, from the experienced art lover to people who have never been to an art museum before - this exhibition is worth seeing! Rockwell was an American master and with close examination one sees how confidant the artist was on his final canvases, with very little paint actually being applied. Most surprisingly is how much of the art is actually pencil, something you would never realize by looking at printed reproductions.

 Kevin Murphy, Crystal Bridges curator of American art, said, “Rockwell’s images helped bring art to a broad segment of the public. His illustrations are so recognizable and popular that they helped make painted images part of mainstream visual culture.” 
An audio guide is also available and gives the viewer insights into several paintings and parts of the exhibition. A wide range of public programs are also offered at the museum in conjunction with the exhibition, including lectures, gallery talks, art workshops and more.  American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell was organized through the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass.
To see more of the art on view at Crystal Bridges see out original write-up about America's Great New Museum in the Heartland.
http://artsnfood.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-crystal-bridges-museum-has.html
FOOD
CEASAR SALAD w/ Shrimp
We are now officially into Salad Season
"ELEVEN" Restaurant at Crystal Bridges Museum serves a wonderful Ceasar Salad with Shrimp. "ELEVEN" is known as one of the most interesting restaurants in the region.
(Note: this is arts n food's recipe for Ceasar Salad with grilled shrimp) 

    • 2 large heads of romaine lettuce, use only the narrow hearts (18 to 24 leaves - 6 to 8 of these leaves per serving - enjoy and appreciate their light green color!
    • 1 large garlic clove, peeled & crushed
    • 1 large egg coddled
    • 1 whole lemon, halved & seeded
    • several drops of the Worcestershire sauce
    • freshly grated imported Parmigiano-Reggiano
    • freshly shaved curls of Parmesan cheese. 
    • 1/4 cup of olive oil
    • pinch salt
    • pinch fresh-ground black pepper 

Use only the hearts of the romaine lettuce, the tender short leaves in the center and present them whole not torn. Rinse and dry the leaves (keep the leaves refrigerated until ready to prepare)

 For the dressing, mix with a fork vigorously into an emulsion: 
1/4 cup of olive oil, 2 large pinches of grated Parmesan cheese, 1 finely minced garlic, several drops of the Worcestershire sauce, a pinch of salt and a few grinds of pepper, the juice of 1 fresh squeezed lemon and the one minute (coddled) egg. (To coddle an egg, bring a small saucepan of water to a simmer. Pierce the large end of the egg with a pushpin to prevent cracking, then simmer for exactly 1 minute.)

The salad greens are then tossed with the dressing in the mixing bowl, gently turning to coat every leaf. 

 Arranged the leaves on each plate, add grilled shrimp, top with a curl of Parmigiano-Reggiano and some freshly prepared croutons.
(1 cup of diced garlic bread with butter - brown to crisp stage in the oven)  

 Yield: 2-3 servings. 



There are limitless variations on Ceasar Salad:

  • grilled shrimp added
  • cubes of grilled chicken added 
  • capers added
  • anchovies added
  • diced bacon added

Until later,
Jack
ARTSnFOOD, is an online publication dedicated to "The Pursuit of Happiness in the Arts and in Food." ™ All rights reserved. Concept, Original Art, Text & "Original Assigned Photography" are © Copyright 2013 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. All art gallery, museum, art fair or art festival photographs were used with permission. Images © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.
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