Looking for a more balanced diet of art? Join Zach and Jesse each month as they take a recent music release and pair it with two other artistic works to create a themed three-course meal for your head, heart, and soul. Come on in, pull up a chair, and enjoy!
Musician Ray Diess joins the chefs on the patio for a roasted meal in the form of SOPHIE's squishy "Product" (2015), Beeple's chewy "Everydays: the First 5000 Days" (2021), and César Baldaccini's crunchy sculpture "Compression" (1970).
(Special thanks to Flangy on Youtube for the SOPHIE sound tutorials)
4 Apr 2022
Leaps of Faith
This month's meal features Blood Incantation’s recent slow-roasted album “Timewave Zero”, the fiery film “Freaks,” and the greasy Brawn GP “BGP 001” race car.
7 Mar 2022
Interpreting Antiquity
This month's meal features Pan Daijing’s sizzling opera "Tissues", the slowly-toasted “Book of Exodus,” and the vinegary 1958 film “The Ballad of Narayama.”
7 Feb 2022
Defining Lines
This month's meal features FKA twigs' latest spicy-sampler mixtape "Caprisongs", the flavor-packed Matrix Reloaded, and Salvador Dali's minty statue "Venus de Milo with Drawers."
3 Jan 2022
The Quest for Ecstasy
This month’s meal features DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ’s abundant buffet The Makin’ Magick II Album (2021), the lavish anime Ponyo (2008), and the sugar-glazed horror film Hausu (1977).
20 Dec 2021
Evolve or Die
This month’s meal features Juçara Marçal’s eccentrically-blended album Delta Estácio Blues (2021), Commodore Perry’s tart “Letter to the Emperor of Japan” (1853), and Damien Hirst’s acidic art installation “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living” (1991).
6 Dec 2021
Yearning for a Perfect Past
This month’s meal features Silk Sonic’s tantalizing album An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021), the slow-marinated painting “The Excavation of Pompeii” (1870) and the syrupy horror film Crystal Eyes (2017).
4 Oct 2021
Side Dishes: Drew Button
Multi-medium artist Drew Button joins the chefs on the patio for a spicy meal in the form of an equestrian statue of Juan de Oñate (1994), the broiled film Elephant (2003), and Ai WeiWei's crunchy series of photos "Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn" (1995).
6 Sept 2021
Side Dishes: Mandy Groves
Singer-songwriter Mandy Groves joins the chefs on the patio for a moonlit meal, consisting of the zesty film Monster House (2006), Primus' greasy album Tales from the Punchbowl (1995), and Harlan Ellison's sour short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" (1967).
2 Aug 2021
Cultural Community
This month's meal features a recent downtempo-house album, a 1923 painting, and a 1990 open-air art gallery.
5 Jul 2021
Measured Maturity
This month's meal features a new electropop release, along with a 2015 documentary and 1967 theme park attraction.
7 Jun 2021
Stepping Out or Selling Out?
This month’s meal features a new alt-rock album, a 2011 Iranian documentary, and a 1986 New York boutique.
3 May 2021
Keeping Yourself Curious
This month’s meal features a new minimalist album, a 2nd century work of philosophy, and a 1995 platform game.
5 Apr 2021
Arriving with Style
This month’s meal features a fresh neo-soul album paired with a 1955 suspense film and a 1959 Broadway play.
1 Mar 2021
Hope and Hard Times
This month’s featured meal is a recent neo-soul album paired with a 2017 documentary film and a 1942 comic booklet.
1 Feb 2021
The Look of Love
This month’s featured meal is a new sophisti-pop album paired with a 1950 magazine cover and a 1593 pastoral poem.
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