{"product_id":"0602445454150","title":"Dance Fever (Dlx)","description":"The exhibition features twelve established and emerging contemporary artists whose work focuses on our reciprocal relationship to food: what we consume, how we consume it and how it consumes us.\u003cbr\u003eIn recent years, the culinary arts have seen a rise in popularity through cable television cooking shows; increased public awareness of food politics; and the explosion of impassioned food movements such slow food, pop-up restaurants and gourmet food trucks. In Acquired Taste, visual artists use a variety of mediums to address the underlying issues surrounding food and consumption: Greg Stewart’s living sculptures and “Moveable Gardens” envision sustainable agriculture as both utopic and democratic; Jennifer Rubell’s playful, participatory work uses food as a vehicle for social interaction; and Dustin Wayne Harris’s “Cake Mixx” photographs offer a humorous, narrative take on first encounters. Artwork in the exhibition ranges from site-specific installations to sculpture and oil paintings.\u003cbr\u003eIn addition, curators Alyssa Cordova and Heather Richards are collaborating with local food enthusiasts to offer exciting programming and events: cooking demonstrations by chef Jonathan Dye; KCRW Good Food contributor Delilah Snell’s “Jam Van” of preserves and other goodies; lectures by featured artist-in-residence Greg Stewart, and more!\u003cbr\u003eArtists include: Sita Bhaumik, Shannon Faseler, Dustin Wayne Harris, Pamela\u003cbr\u003eJohnson, Jennifer Knox, MyersBerg Studios, Mary Parisi, Justin Perricone, Victoria\u003cbr\u003eReynolds, Jennifer Rubell, Stephen Shanabrook, Greg Stewart and Tattfoo Tan.\u003cbr\u003eAccompanying Acquired Taste: Food and the Art of Consumption is a full-color exhibition catalog of artwork and essays slated to be published October\/November 2011. Essayists include freelance writer and blogger Nicole Caruth (Contemporary Confections); art historian and blogger Megan Fizell (Feasting on Art); and Pulitzer prize-winning writer Jonathan Gold\u003cbr\u003e(LA Weekly, KCRW’s Good Food).","brand":"Universal Music Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47094978380016,"sku":"0602445454150","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/0602445454150_p0.jpg?v=1763454019","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/0602445454150","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}