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Luis Meléndez

Food Muse: Pictures At An Exhibition, Exhibitionist Food–Luis Melendez At The MFA and Tapas At Toro

What is the food that Luis Melendez paints? Is it food? More than food? Less than perfect food? Food stand-ins for something else? What is this stuff called “every species of food produced by the Spanish climate”? Is it about the food or something beyond, beyond the canvas? by Sally Levitt Steinberg What fruits! What […]

By: Sally Levitt Steinberg Filed Under: Featured, Food Tagged: arts, Boston, Food Muse, Luis Meléndez, Museum of Fine Art, Sally Levitt Steinberg, Spain, tapas, Toro

Coming Attractions at Museums: February 2010

By Peter Walsh Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA through May 9. Locked into a low-status, unprofitable niche, talented Spanish still-life painter Luis Meléndez (1716–1780) made little money and achieved even less fame during his lifetime. He is said to have complained to the king, who never […]

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Visual Arts Tagged: Andrea Fraser, Asian Journeys, Boston, Boston Athenaeum, Boston College, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Charles Simic, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, George Nama, harvard-university, Lisa Fischmann, Luis Meléndez, mcmullen-museum, Museum of Fine Arts, New England, peter-Walsh, Rockefellers, Stephen Vitiello, Visual Arts, Wellesley College

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