The New York Public Library at its main Fifth Avenue (at 42nd Street) branch, a Greek temple-like monumental building guarded by impressive stone lions, is currently hosting a thought provoking (and free) exhibit that is nothing less than an historical and cultural analysis of … [Read more...] about Better Than A Free Lunch: Public Library’s “Lunch Hour NYC” Exhibit
Exhibit Reviews
What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam? National Archives Exhibit On Food
An independent federal agency created in 1934, the National Archives and Records Administration is the national record keeper for the United States. The agency safeguards records of all three branches (executive, judicial, and legislative) of the federal government. At its … [Read more...] about What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam? National Archives Exhibit On Food
What I Eat- Around the World in 25 Diets
The Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts [1 Science Park, Boston, Ma, 617.723.2500] is currently presenting "What I Eat- Around the World in 25 Diets," a provocative exhibit of 25 individual "food portraits" created by the husband/wife team, photographer Peter Menzel and … [Read more...] about What I Eat- Around the World in 25 Diets
American Pottery in the British Studio Tradition, an exhibition at The Culinary Institute of America
Warren Mackenzie, an American potter [http://warrenmackenziepottery.com/], studied in Great Britain in the years after World War II with Bernard Howell Leach, the father of the British studio tradition of handmade pottery, at the Leach Pottery in St. Ives, Cornwall … [Read more...] about American Pottery in the British Studio Tradition, an exhibition at The Culinary Institute of America
Alexis Rockman, A Fable for Tomorrow
A Fable for Tomorrow is the perfect subtitle for a must-see exhibition currently on display until May 8, 2011 at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum in Washington, DC of the wondrous and powerful art of Alexis Rockman (Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and F Street (NW), … [Read more...] about Alexis Rockman, A Fable for Tomorrow