ON ART AND FOOD

I loved today's article in the NYTimes about the crazy restaurant called FOOD that used to exist in the seventies on Wooster Street and Prince Street. I used to live on West Broadway  and Prince in those days and ate at FOOD quite often. It was a very sweet artist restaurant that served food that artists/cooks prepared everyday, cafeteria-style. Lots of artists I know used to sling food there. One of my favorite artists in those days, Gordon Matta Clark, dreamt up FOOD (he used to live in the nabe). He's the guy who used to cut buildings in half, among other things, and his dad was the famous surrealist Matta. Gordon was a great spirit and died of cancer tragically not long after his twin brother jumped off a roof on Wooster Street in 1976. It was horrible and sad.

A retrospective of Matta-Clark's work (see split house at right) opens at the Whitney Frida just as the Armory Show kicks into gear (on pier 94 at 55th Street.) It's gonna be a big art weekend with events and parties going on all over the city starting today! Oh and don't forget to stop into a few of the other parallel art fairs going on at the same time. There's Pulse (at the Armory on Lex and 26th St.), Scope (at 62nd and 10th Avenue) and even a fair dedicated to LA art  (135 West 18th Street).