Yearly Archives: 2012

Recipes

Chard and Saffron Omelette with Crème Fraîche

I just bought my latest favorite cookbook called Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London’s Ottolenghi, I have been cooking through the pages recently. The recipes in this book is all vegetarian, but Yotam Ottolenghi, who owns the popular London restaurant … Continue reading

Event

Panel Discussion: “Transnationalism and Women Artists in Diaspora”

Last Saturday March 31, I participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Brooklyn Museum of Art.  The topic, Transnationalism and Women Artists in Diaspora covered many topics including feminism, nativism, nomadic nature of artistic existence, race, colonialism, class, multiculturalism, … Continue reading

Art review

Woman of Many Faces: Cindy Sherman at MoMA

Cindy Sherman’s retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art traces this American photographer’s entire career, from her early experiments as a student in Buffalo in the mid-1970s to a recent large-scale photographic mural (photo). Included are some of the artist’s groundbreaking … Continue reading

Recipes

Caldo Verde: Portuguese Kale Soup

I have been struggling with the combination of allergy, spring cold and sinus infection all through March. When I am suffering like this, I crave simple and comforting soups. One of my favorite soups to make at times like this … Continue reading

Art review

February Gallery Roundup

It’s time to come out of the winter hibernation (even though it has not been bad this winter), and see some art! 🙂 Here is my roundup of some of the interesting exhibitions going on in Chelsea and Lower Eastside. … Continue reading

French, Theater

Richard III: Un autre candidat Républicain à la présidentielle?

Richard III (dirigé par Sam Mendes), une des premières  pièces politiques de Shakespeare, monté à BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), est un choix parfait en cette saison de politique présidentielle. Cette représentation, avec Kevin Spacey en vedette dans le rôle … Continue reading

Recipes

Pizza, pizza, pizza!

I have been really getting into making home-made pizzas recently. Home-made pizzas are incredibly easy (especially if you buy pre-made dough) and infinitely healthier than your average pizzeria pizzas.  I could make the dough myself, and it is not hard … Continue reading

Restaurants

Restaurant Review: Fat Radish

I have a new favorite restaurant in Manhattan in Lower East Side called Fat Radish.  I have been going to this restaurant every few weeks since they opened on Orchard Street about a year ago.  The space is tight but attractive … Continue reading

French, Opinion

Le mythe de la société sans classe (The myth of classless society)

Les Etats-Unis n’ont pas un système de classe.  C’est une chose européenne, non? Mon dernier voyage à Los Angeles m’a fait penser à l’idée (en vogue récemment au sein de la droite et de la gauche) de la guerre des … Continue reading

Event, Exhibition News

Mural Installation at Affordable Art Fair Los Angeles

My gallery, Accola Griefen participated in the first Affordable Art Fair Los Angeles, and I did a large mural installation outside the booth.  I combined a pair of custom wallpaper printed with archival ink, one of my oil paintings and some … Continue reading