Try these extremely easy recipes from The Artist Cookbook Vol. 2.
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Sunday, November 07, 2021

Hi, Art!

Sunday, November 07, 2021

Hi, art lovers!

 
Who gets to call themselves a food writer? One of the links to come through my inbox this past week was an article asking that question. And the answer? We all do … though maybe painters and sculptors and whatnot get to claim that distinction more than the rest of us? You see, coming across that headline was a funny bit of serendipity considering I’d just filed this story about a cookbook authored by Canadian artists. It’s not an art book in the guise of a cookbook, or a manual for reinterpreting a masterpiece as a smorgasbord of jellies. Rather, it’s as homespun as they come: an old-school collection of favourite recipes. And it’s not the first of its kind. Heck, it’s not even the only one to hit stores this fall. But it’s a tried-and-tested concept, even if you’ll never actually attempt Monet’s potato pie, Dalí’s avocado toast or a dinner-party menu from Christo and Jeanne-Claude. But if you do skim that article and wind up sampling one of the recipes found within, you know how to send me your review.

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Photo of a gallery interior. Two walls are black. The wall at left is covered with a black and white mural of a crowd. Five colourful busts are placed throughout the room. The largest piece appears at centre. It is a human face with red skin, neon green eyes and a placid purple mouth.

© Nicolas Party. Photo by Rebecca Fanuele

Heads up! The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has announced a new exhibition from Nicolas Party. L’heure mauve opens Feb. 12.

 
Photo of Miles Greenberg installation. Three shiny black statues composed of glitched human figures are installed on a pool of milky turquoise water. Its banks appear to be lined with rust-coloured rock. The walls are white.

Toni Hafkenscheid

This installation by Miles Greenberg is appearing at Arsenal Contemporary Art Toronto to Dec. 18. Those glitchy figures? They reference the myths of Icarus, Narcissus and Orpheus. 
 
Painting of a seated figure with their back to the viewer. The textures have the glitchy gloss of a digital image. The figure's hair is long and shines in a gradient of blue, falling to their waist.

@rute_merk/Instagram

Terica by Berlin-based painter Rūtė Merk.
 
Collage. Dripping abstract forms intersect at the centre of the composition. An arched window revealing a forest waterfall appears in the background against a peagreen wall.

@fennafiction/Instagram

Collage by Fenna Schilling. 
 
Photo of an artwork by JR at the site of the Great Pyramids of Giza. It is a black-and-white image of a human hand, installed in the sand. The hand holds an image of separated stone, in alignment with one of the pyramids. This creates the illusion that the pyramid's top is floating, detached from the base.Wild dogs rest at the foot of the art installation. A man on a camel traverses the sandy landscape behind the artwork.

@artdegypte/Instagram

That’s not Photoshop. For the first time in history, there’s an outdoor art exhibition happening at the Pyramids of Giza. This is JR’s contribution to the show.
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Closeup photograph of tacos stuffed with roast cauliflower, red cabbage, chickpeas and avocado chunks.

Carrie Perreault

How to cook like an artist

 
Unlock your creativity … by eating tacos? OK, maybe not. But you’ll want to try these extremely easy recipes from The Artist Cookbook Vol. 2.
 
Close up photo of Timothee Chalamet in Dune. A slim young white man with dark floppy hair wearing a long sleeved leather top. He holds a long dagger above his head.
Warner Bros.

Dune’s white saviour problem

 
Dune’s desert world of Arrakis was inspired by Islamic and Middle Eastern cultures. In the novel, those details help to weave a complex tale, but according to Rukhsar Ali, the new blockbuster adaptation is “just the same type of story Hollywood has told time and time again.”
 
Medium closeup of the poet Canisa Lubrin, a young Black woman with short curly hair wearing a collared black shirt. She is photographed against a black backdrop.

CBC Arts

 

A pandemic poem for the elderly

Canisia Lubrin is the Canadian winner of the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize. Watch her perform In the Vault of Morning, a piece written in response to COVID-19.
 
 

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Anna Campbell

@acrookedmouth
An artistic interpretation of the CBC Gem logo, rendered in pink and blue. Text below reads: CBC Arts.

@acrookedmouth/Instagram

Anna’s logo design is featured on all of our social feeds for Transgender Awareness Month. “I like to think of being trans as infinite diversity in infinite combination, to steal a quote from Star Trek,” writes the Toronto-based artist. “I visualize that as like living in a kaleidoscope, spinning out in endless fractal colours.” 
 

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