Exhibit at Davison Art Center Lauded

David PesciNovember 22, 20101min
'Art and Appetite' looks at artists' views of food's abundance and absence in culture

‘Art and Appetite’ a new exhibit at Wesleyan’s Davison Art Center was enthusiastically reviewed in The New York Times recently. The review says that the exhibit goes beyond the “joy of looking at cooking” with many of the art works displayed are “less about food than is absence.” Artists featured include Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Käthe Kollwitz, Walker Evans, Pieter van der Heyden, among others. The exhibit runs through Dec. 12.