Summer salads and meats

Pork is arguably the best summer meat.

GROCERY

8 Artists, Craftsman & Printmakers that We Recommend you Check Out Soon We are repurposing our ‘8 Artists from Crafty’ list to bring you…… drum roll please….. ‘8 Artists to Get Prints From’ list. Each of these artists was vetted (by us, of course), using the highest of standards possible, to ensure that whoever’s artistic

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot: On Kawara’s Date Paintings

I’ve seen On Kawara’s Date Paintings before. Three or four at a time usually; in the Glenstone Museum or the National Gallery of Art. I found them to be staid and underwhelming, assuming, as most people probably do, that his painstakingly crafted numerals were the results of stencils or tracing. On a recent trip to

Horoscopes

Horoscope time! And good news: we here at Grocery Magazine are actually professionally trained horoscope writers. All the advice and information below is absolutely true and should be followed as closely as humanly possible. Do not mess this up.

A Lesson in Monochrome

Monochrome is by nature a minimalist form of expression. It is a reduction to one color; abstract in ways that distracting patterns or prints could never be.

That Time I Met Judy Chicago

There are people that we all learned about in school: George Washington, Richard Nixon, that guy that cured polio, etc. You know what I mean. These are Famous People. Their lives are considered worthy of study; their quotes and projects worthy of critical analysis. If you, like me, are an art history person, then Judy

What did Bob Ross do with all of those paintings?

Did someone buy them? Can someone buy them?  Are they more valuable because he’s Bob Ross? *Existential deep dive into how art is valued.*  Are they in a museum? Can I see them in real life? Do I want to?  So many valid questions and potentially great answers. If you’re unclear on who Bob Ross is,

Grocery Reading List: October 10th

A grocery list of current art reviews, criticism, and journalism to keep you up to date. Read one or read them all! Just, please, read something.

Why I Find It Comical and Sort of Contradictory that Nam June Paik’s Electronic Superhighway Has Become One of the SAAM’s Most Instragramable Pieces

A friend of mine from North Carolina posted an Instagram story recently standing in front of Korean-born artist Nam June Paik’s epic Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The accompanying text read: “I heard all the cool DC girls post pictures here.” Honestly, fair. Paik’s masterful, massive work, one

Five Things that Confuse Me about the Freer Sackler Gallery’s Apparent Guilt-By-Association in the Whole Sackler Scandal

Let’s begin by affirming our commitment to the facts: that the Sacklers have catapulted themselves into an echelon of unbelievable wealth; and that their launching pad for this generational ascent was built, carefully and furtively, on the misery of an army of opioid-addicted Americans. The centrality of this fact shouldn’t be downplayed or sidestepped. Of