Oysters have a way of dividing people. In 1996, Mary Ellen Carroll's fishmonger contacted her about a customer who cancelled an order of 500 oysters. Food and art collided at this moment and the conflation was not that food is art or art is food, but that context and intention determine the value of both. MORE
A restaurant that was open for one day on Saturday, November 23, 2002 from 10 am until 10 pm at Apex Art when an exhibition was cancelled at the last minute. MORE
In 2003 the Highline was still an abandoned elevated railroad track that no longer brought livestock into the meatpacking district in Manhattan. The cargo of the final shipment contained turkeys. MORE
Built in 1928, the Goethals Bridge connects Staten Island to New Jersey. MORE
In 2005, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston was about to have a new building on its Back Bay. MORE
Olivia Shao and Jay Sanders have a very unique space called Doyers in lower Manhattan. Their place is a small room in a sub-basement in a building on Doyers Street in Chinatown. MORE
When a piece appeared in the NY Times about Itinerant Gastronomy, Mayor Richard Daley clipped the article and contacted Carroll about hosting a meal in the Windy City. With the commission as a part of the exhibition Feast, the opportunity organically presented itself. MORE
Eighty year old, Lee Bun Sun had a restaurant in the area of Jwacheon, Dong-gu District, Busan, South Korea that she ran for over 30 years following the Korean War. MORE
Free enterprise is the given reason there is no formal land use policy or simply put, no zoning in the city of Houston. Things end up being where they need to be. MORE
Dr. Michael Knoche, Director of the Central Library of German Classical Studies, the Duchess Anna Amalia Library and the architect Walther Grunewald who won the competition to restore the Duchess Anna Amalia library in 2004 that burnt down four months later and subsequently he was awarded the rebuilding of the copy of the library dining in the copy of Goethe's Cottage. MORE