Gourmet food might not be the first thing that comes to mind when dicussing classic works of art, but practicing chef and artist Jay Batlle is quick to draw the connection between the two. Throughout his colorful, occassionally satirical critiques of the hedonistic fine dining culture, Batlle depicts the luxurious atmosphere cultivated by high-class restaurants and hotels. In this interview, the artist discusses the role food played in the developement of Pop art, the important and underappreciated creative aspect of the culinary arts, and what to eat when you're in the south of France.

Museum Abteiberg 19/05/2013 at 16:00 - 18:00 pm

Daniel Barroca is an artist currently living and working between Portugal and Denmark. For his participation in the Sunday Conversations program Barroca talks about 'The important is to link the head to the hand' - a long term project of his in which drawings, images and texts evolve into an imaginary notebook. Fascinating images and artist's notes will be shared, as usual, accompanied with coffee and cake.

It may not be in quite the same league as finding the remains of Richard III under a parking lot in Leicester, or fragments of Chinese pottery dating back 20,000 years. But last week the discovery of a thousand or more shards of colorful Tiffany glass, stumbled on while clearing the site of a former Tiffany factory for a new school building in Corona, Queens, is expected to give a sculpture commissioned for the school more authenticity than originally hoped for by the agency that ordered it and the artist who is making it.
The work, a large piece — roughly 100 linear feet, broken into four or five hefty segments — by the sculptor and installation artist Rita McBride, will stand in the entrance lobby of P.S. 315, near a large, open staircase leading down to the school’s library. The plan calls for it to be visible from both the library and the street, 43rd Avenue at Ninth Place, when the 1,100-student elementary school opens in 2015. And because the sculpture was commissioned to pay homage to the history of the neighborhood, the piece was designed to use Tiffany glass — although until excavations for the school turned up a mother lode of colorful pieces, Ms. McBride said she was not sure where the glass would come from...

Jarosław Fliciński is a painter currently living and working in Portugal and Poland. For his participation in the next Sunday Conversations program Fliciński talks about a small package that he sent from Portugal to lonelyfingers in Düsseldorf. The contents of the package and its connections with Fliciński 's works will be unfolded by the artist – as usual – accompanied with coffee and cake.

Public Finds: Middle Manager Hide and Seek
(56 stanzas on the mitigating circumstances surrounding the secret life of middle managers in our cities). Rita McBride plays a visual and verbal game of hide and seek while investigating the mysterious properties of system management control boxes on the street.