Category: Art/Culture

• The Impressionists and Guerilla Foodies: Exquisite Rebellion in Paris

  Disclaimer:  I am not an art critic, and did not study Art History.  I’m simply crazy about Contemporary Art.  In my quest for knowledge I slowly learn as I go, and while I’m not going to love, understand or appreciate everything I see, each museum exhibit or gallery visit I attend opens my eyes and…

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  September 26, 2010

  Art/Culture, Food

  Anthony Bourdain, D’Orsay, De Young, Impressionists, Le Fooding, Ludo Lefebvre, LudoBites

• Is Trouble Brewing at the Museum of African Diaspora?

  It has been months since my visit to MoAD and I’ve been slightly preoccupied with this museum ever since. It wasn’t necessarily the gripping portrayals of the unimaginable horrors of the middle passage portrayed in the “Slavery Passage Gallery”. Nor was it the beautifully imposing glass encased portrait of a young African child greeting visitors…

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  September 6, 2010

  Art/Culture, Modern Art

  Art and Culture, MoAD, Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco Museums, SOMA, Yerba Buena Cultural Center