Alder Yarrow at Vinography gets the affiliation of wine and art. Wine ultimately embodies connection. The connection between the earth and the sky, or as
Category: General Aesthetics
Real Men Don’t Eat Fiddly Foods!
Esquire’s “Eat Like a Man” blog features John Mariani confidently contending that cooking is a craft, never an art. Thus, imagination and creativity go into
How Much is a Forged Painting Worth?
Apparently, real estate and Bordeaux wines are not the only price bubbles in China these days. As reported by Felix Salmon, If you look at
Sound, Vision, Taste and the Fine Arts
One traditional argument opposing the idea that the edible arts are genuine fine arts is that taste and smell are very limited sensory modalities. They
Picasso’s Puffery
Picasso is alleged to have said “Painting is not done to decorate apartments, it is an instrument of war against brutality and darkness.” I suspect
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 