Ed Ruscha is bringing his Cactus Omelette recipe to the Barbican this year, serving up portions of the recipe to festival-goers at London’s installation of Doug Aitken’s Station to Station project. “It’s essentially an artwork, says curator Leila Hasham. “It’s edible cactus art.” (more…)
Subodh Gupta, This is not a fountain (2011), via Ross Maddux for Art Observed
Subodh Gupta’s most recent show at Hauser and Wirth is an exercise in the personal. Long known for works combining the intensely personal with broader social constructs and ritualistic approaches to the art object, his current exhibition places an even more central focus on the intensely personal, communal relations life in India, and his emphasis on the unifying, material structures over which daily life proceeds. (more…)
The New York Times takes a look at the lunch habits of various artists in their studios, examining the communal eating time for artists and their assistants, particularly those of Urs Fischer, Cai Guo-Qiang and Marianne Vitale. “What makes me sad,” Fischer says, “is when people have these lunches where they all go out individually, and then have plastic containers of salads, and sit in front of computers.” (more…)
Martin Creed is interviewed in The Guardian this week, giving a typically elusive, cheeky interview covering his greatest fears, his most embarrassing moment, and his thoughts on dinner parties: “I hate dinner parties,” he says. “I don’t even like dinners particularly. I hate eating because I am scared of most food a lot of the time. I am disgusted by meat and fish.” (more…)
Brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman are the subject of the Financial Times’ ongoing “Lunch with the FT” series, talking about their early work, and response to criticism that their work has scarcely changed in the past years. “But it’s the same criticism you could level at Mark Rothko,” The brothers collectively ask. “Is it imperative for the artist to be novel?” (more…)
Frieze New York on Randall’s Island will once again host a variety of local food vendors at this year’s edition of the fair. The list of vendors, announced Friday, will include pizza from Roberta’s Pizza, coffee from Blue Bottle Coffee, and a full-service restaurant by Frankie’s Sputino. The fair runs from May 10th to the 13th. (more…)
