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First Aired - 01/03/2012 03:00PM
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On the first episode of THE FOOD SEEN in 2012, Caren Alpert, a San Francisco based photographer, takes a closer look at food … a much closer look. She uses a scanning electron microscope for her “terra cibus” project, magnifying the surfaces of food between ten and a thousand times, abstracting their textures, making them seems as if they were bird’s eye views of otherwordly landscapes. Table salt looks like ice floes, cauliflower resembles a canyon/chasm, fortune cookies turn into tributaries, and my favorite, cake sprinkles.
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"I thought why not take a closer look at what we eat every day...Sugar looks otherworldly under the microscope."
--Caren Alpert on The Food Seen
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The Food Seen: Caren Alpert (23:40)
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First Aired - 08/11/2010 07:00PM
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This week on Burning Down the House Curtis spoke to David McFadden, chief curator at the Museum of Art and Design in Manhattan. David spoke about two of MAD's current exhibitions, "Dead or Alive" (focusing on man's relationship with animals and nature) and "Bespoke" (an exhibition of glorious handmade custom bicycles). Be sure and tune in for an intriguing look inside one of NYC's best places to see art, artists in residence at work, and an open look at the construction of every exhibition. This episode was sponsored by Tekserve: your one stop Apple superstore.
Photo #1: Dead or Alive exhibit, Photo #2: The Museum of Art & Design
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Burning Down The House Intro - The Meaning in the Making (17:30)
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Everything counts, www.tekserve.com, David McFadden, chief curator of the Museum of Arts & Design, the world of museums, every art informs every other art, craft, the melding of idea with execution, the old hierarchies of art, no boundaries anymore between art forms, Tischen, intentionally crude art, interrelationships between science and art, Leonardo da Vinci, the art of cooking, museum curators love to cook, the raw elements of life, all the senses, artists working with unusual materials, Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Tara Donovan, using organic materials, thank goodness for the internet, the cube of dead flies, Kate McGuire, Discharge, waterfall of pigeon feathers, donated pigeon feathers, painting with cockroach wings, reliquaries, Joseph Cornell's boxes, apothecary bottles, glass artists, The Apothecarium Moderne, Tim Tate, Marc Petrovic, museum as a treasure house, whimsy and humor are profound human emotions, laughing out loud in the gallery, expanding the art audience, prehistoric times, Michael Maharem, Maharem fabrics, Bespoke, custom handmade bicycles, revealing the beautiful bones of the bicycle, the largest mountain bike tires Curtis has ever seen, bicycle chains look like jewelry, unusual initiative, the nimble exhibitions, redesigning radiators, Moma, icons of design, get inside the mind of the designer, what woven mesh can do, open artist studios on the 6th floor of the MAD Museum, artists in residence, opens up a world of accessibility, New Yorkers don't always get out to galleries, most people haven't had a chance to talk to a professional artist, metal work, glass work, one of the reasons Burning Down The House exists, architecture as art, access to people in the field, the phenomenon of television cooking shows, documenting work processes, create the work right in the studio, installation in progress, watching the exhibition installation, understanding art, not feeling stupid when you leave the museum, the social contract, a willingness to pay for art, Bank Bailout, where's the money for the creative arts?, individuals fund the arts, Karim Rashid, Peter Gabriel,Beatifully Crafted (8:26)
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David McFadden, Museum of Arts & Design, Columbus Circle, dandelions, Studio Drift, Lonneke Gordijn, Ralph Nauta, Fragile Future, 2000 dandelion seed heads glued to LED lights, as nature created them, the intersection of art and technology, Pantyhose and Red Lentils, Larry Simms, a couple of interesting changes at the MAD museum, The Global Africa Project, international art and design from the African diaspora, Otherworldly, dioramas, miniature versions of other worlds, One Rule: No Photoshop, beautifully crafted, claymation, an incredible number of artists are making snow globes, zoetrope, buying a membership, no advertising budget, all word-of-mouth, Robert restaurant on the 9th floor, one of the great views, Robert Isabelle, Curtis B. Wayne, Dan Breindel,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
