On This Spot Newsletter — January 2025

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Video Spotlight – FOOD

The restaurant FOOD set the table for the early SoHo art scene. In 1971, artists Carol Goodden and Gordon Matta-Clark, opened FOOD as an artwork in itself. "FOOD as art, art as life." Artists Tina Girouard, Suzanne Harris and Rachel Lew joined the team. The women ran and funded the restaurant.

Guest artists took turns as chefs, inventing dishes and themed events. But despite its success as a vibrant gathering place, FOOD lasted only three years. Reflecting on its intense, immersive nature, Goodden wrote: “Though we consumed FOOD, FOOD consumed us.”

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FOOD: From the SoHo Memory Project Archive

In the SoHo Memory Project’s digital archive is FOOD, a White Columns exhibition curated by Catherine Morris, featuring her seminal essay. The archive also includes photographs and a collection of documents from FOOD, the pioneering artist-run restaurant that opened in 1971 at 127 Prince Street in SoHo.

What's Happening

Events and exhibitions related to Spot artists

Miné Okubo: Portraits

SEIZAN Gallery

January 9 – March 1, 2025

525 W 26TH St., Ground Floor

The eleven portraits featured in this exhibition were created in the late 1940s, just a few years after Okubo’s release from the camps. These bold, powerful works share stylistic connections with her earlier charcoal drawings from the internment period.

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