Oct 14, 2009

A Mixed Bag (10.14.09)

L’Atlas, Paris Sewer, 2009. Spray paint on canvas. Courtesy of Gallery nine5.

City Fragments: On Oct. 14, Gallery nine5 in New York will host a site-specific, open air work by the artist known as L'Atlas, marking his solo debut in the United States. The artist's paintings will also be on view at the gallery beginning Oct. 16.

Slow Food to Slow Art: An upcoming MoMA event encourages people to look at artworks for 10 minutes or longer. Saturday, Oct. 17.

Candy Leads to Violence: Daily candy in childhood linked to violence in adulthood, reports the Tehran Times.

Is Michelle Obama about to take on Big Food? (or Mr. Potato Head)

Industry Ties: Major food companies join the fight against obesity. Curious.

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies.

Farmcart: The brainchild of Brooklyn sculptor Michelle Lopez, says "It’s not an installation. It’s really about the sandwiches.”

Arctic Book Club: A group of artists respond to Tété-Michel Kpomassie's book, An African in Greenland, which accounts the author's journey from his native Togo to Greenland. On view at EFA Project Space in Manhattan through Oct. 24.

The Breslin: The Ace Hotel's sexy eatery has a menu to match. Breakfast includes Pumpkin Pancakes with Pecan Butter and Chili ($14); and a Fried Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich ($10).

FAX: The Contemporary Art Center, Baltimore presents works by artists, architects, designers, scientists and filmmakers who have conceived of the fax machine as a tool for thinking and drawing. Through Dec. 20.

Cookies and Murder: The Daily Pilot tells the story of a Hare Krishna devotee and cookie entrepreneur's connection to the 1977 murder of a Newport Beach drug dealer.

National Cookie Month: Scroll through Yumsugar's cookie roundup.

New Work in Handmade Paper: New work by artist E.V. Day uses a technique of embossing pigmented fishnets into thick casting paper pulp. On view at Dieu Donné beginning Oct. 15.

Chocolate Salted-Caramel Mini Cupcakes.

So Wrong, it's Right: The new blaxploitation film Black Dynamite.

Fast Food No More: New fast food restaurants are prohibited in one Los Angeles neighborhood.

The Rape of Africa: DeSanctis Gallery in Los Angeles premieres David LaChapelle's monumental photograph, The Rape Of Africa, based on Botticelli’s Venus & Mars (1484). Continues through Oct. 31.

New Foundations: Four year after Katrina, New Orleans is seeing a boom in experimental housing design.

Wonka Rides: Chocolate theme park to open in Beijing, China.

Sweet Words: Blue Marble Ice Cream in Brooklyn will host an ice cream social and reading this Saturday, October 17. Call for more info.

Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present: This Brooklyn Museum presentation focuses on the part photographers have played in the history of rock and roll. Blondie will perform at the members preview/opening reception on Oct. 29.

Chocolate Crepe (Birthday) Cake.

Confections of a Closet Master Baker: Apartment Therapy reviews a new book by pastry chef Gesine Bullock-Prado (sister of actress Sandra Bullock).

BobbleHead: A recent Ralph Lauren ad pictures a model whose "pelvis is smaller than her head." And now Yahoo! reports that she was fired for being "overweight."

Bacon is the new cupcake.

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