One of the things that allows the “arts” to be accessible to anyone is the fact that “art” can be made from virtually anything. Art can be your classic forms of paintings, sculptures or photography…or it can be a living display, or even an edible one. Combining my two loves:... Continue reading

For this month’s infographic post, I came across this one on eating and drinking while on the go. As a food photographer with ties in the private labeling and consumer packaging goods field, this infographic caught my eye. The English researching group GFK has put together this infographic that explores... Continue reading

Mark Maio is a colleague of mine, who has been intrigued by silos for years and has quite an extensive portfolio of them. All six acres of the Buffalo River’s Silo City is owned by Rick Smith, who hopes to convert the compound into a multipurpose facility for the arts,... Continue reading

Copyright Caren Alpert Photography This week is the soft opening of the new Cindy’s Waterfront Restaurant at Monterey Bay Aquarium. The culinary partner in this restaurant is Cindy Pawlcyn, who is a pioneer in sustainable gastronomy and author of numerous cookbooks. I know readers enjoy behind-the-scene photos from time to... Continue reading

David Schwen created a fun project for his Instagram page called Pantone Pairings. Pantone is a system for matching colors, used in specifying printing inks. You might recall that I wrote a blog post a couple of months ago about Pantone choosing the color of the year, Emerald Green. What... Continue reading

This month’s infographic post is on the skyrocketing street food trend. Even though it’s part of my business to know about food trends, I was surprised by some of the information gathered by the clever folks at The Food People in Chichester, southern England. For instance, the #1 country for... Continue reading

I recently sent out my quarterly promo piece, this one highlighting my travel photography. The images were taken in Vietnam, during a recent trip, and I hoped to transport the viewer, even if only visually, 8,000 miles away. I learned many things during my trip and met wonderful people that... Continue reading

As a photographer, it is crucial that one protects their artistic work. I have recently had to look back on some images that I filed for copyright protection with the Library of Congress, so it’s on the top of my mind these days. I understand how daunting and valuable this... Continue reading

The New York Public Library has been collecting restaurant menus for more than a century, and have embarked on a project to get the menu information out of the Rare Books Division and online for public consumption (pun intended). They have over 45,000 unique menus, and have digitized nearly a... Continue reading

Some museums are taking a page from Ivan Day’s book and having more success in getting patrons to visit their period rooms. Mr. Day, a former botanist turned food historian/curator, has had great success when working with museums to help them capitalize on the public’s growing interest in all facets... Continue reading

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Iconic photographer Bill Brandt has a new exhibition by curator Sarah Hermanson Meister at the New York Museum of Modern Art called “Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light.” While I could wax poetic about Mr. Brandt’s use of composition and light for most of the 1900s, I’m actually more excited to... Continue reading

There is a growing public captivation between food and art, and here’s an interesting twist on this: a lampshade made of chocolate! Artist Alexander Lervik created a chocolate lamp, and unveiled it during Stockholm Design Week. He was interested in exploring the idea of light, and darkness. Ultimately he created... Continue reading

Ashton Kutcher’s Thrash Lab has created an homage to the craft of butchery, and has filmed three Bay Area butcher shops for “The Subculture of Butchers”. The video artistically highlights the revival of the butchery renaissance. One butcher shop that I absolutely adore is called the Fatted Calf, also located... Continue reading

Pantone recently released it’s annual “color of the year”…and the color is Pantone 17-5641. What is unusual about this year’s color is that for the first time in the 14 year history of naming colors, Pantone felt it necessary to give 17-5641 a real name: Emerald Green. One wonders what... Continue reading

If you follow my posts on this blog or on my Facebook page, you will know that I love infographics. Infographics are an interesting way to communicate information that is normally hard to understand, but becomes accessible in a visual form. I fell in love with them when I worked... Continue reading

Each January millions of Americans look at their lives over the last year, and try to emulate what worked, and maybe look to other avenues for improving what could be better. While there is a tradition for this annual self-inspection, the truth is that we could all take time for... Continue reading

It’s that exciting time of year when the awards for Good Food are announced! The Good Food Awards take place in San Francisco, and are special because they celebrate not only foods that taste great, but those that honor social and environmental responsibility, too. These awards take a comprehensive view... Continue reading

I was recently featured be on famed chef Evan Kleiman's Good Food radio show in LA for my terra cibus project. Continue reading

The MoMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, is offering some very exciting classes that allows anyone to enter the exciting world of modern art anytime, anywhere. Perhaps the idea of being an artist and engaging in the right side of your brain is appealing, but where to... Continue reading

I have three loves in my professional life…art, science and food. This new book titled The Where, the Why and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science touches on two of those, science and art. This self-described "science book like no other" is exactly that. While hitting on... Continue reading

The Museum of Modern art in New York has released a pdf manual on how to take care of art in the event of disaster. While this is obviously timely for victims of Hurricane Sandy, it's a useful tool for all museums and galleries in the event of an impending... Continue reading

Being just days away from my own opening in NYC (which has been delayed for the time being), the stories of destruction are so hard to read... While many lost their lives, and the entire nation is saddened and watches the herculean clean-up task, here's another angle many may not... Continue reading

My friend Matt's new book just came out. If you are interested in architecture, Japan, or the relationship between students and their teachers, take a read. And, of course, if you are follower of Tadao Ando, it will be most enjoyable. http://www.amazon.com/Tadao-Ando-Conversations-Students/dp/1616890703/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1349107538&sr=8-2&keywords=matthew+hunter Already sold out in SF at William Stout... Continue reading

Painter Gary Komarin, who is repped locally by Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery (http://www.eesgallery.com), has a show at one of my favorite housewares store, March (www.marchsf.com). Originally from NYC, and now based in Connecticut, he doesn't have a concentration on food per se, but this body of work is from his "Cake... Continue reading