Word: visualizers
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...Lonesome Dove Western Bistro in Fort Worth, Texas, where he just started serving a fig-and-black-lime margarita and surrounds his mango-sautéed salmon with an intense puree of earthy black trumpet mushrooms. "It's unexpected. It looks great on a plate," he says. The visual élan also appeals to the chefs at DavidBurke & Donatella in New York City. "We focus on eye-catching presentation," says chef de cuisine Eric Hara. "Black chicken definitely intrigues diners." David Myers of Sona in Los Angeles fully embraces the dark side by serving black chicken and forbidden rice, and black...
...intimidation factor with sake selection is not only lack of exposure but also those pesky Japanese characters. Even after four years of college-level Japanese, Sidel couldn't read the labels, so he has tried to carve out what he calls a middle ground by incorporating more visual elements and English. Joto Sake's packaging now includes descriptions and a "bit of education." Oversimplifying the label, he says, as some competitors do, "might look cool but isn't helpful to Americans...
...given his high-profile work as Dia's president and director, and the director concedes he resisted their overtures. But eventually Govan decided that he simply couldn't pass up the opportunity, citing everything from the city's ports to its diversity and, most passionately, the vitality of its visual-arts scene and plethora of filmmakers, designers and other creative people...
...bowler hats for that exhibition and donned sunglasses for this summer's retrospective of neon artist Dan Flavin, which co-curator Govan brought to LACMA at the end of a world tour. "The Flavin exhibition was beautifully selected, installed and almost choreographed," observes artist Alexis Smith. "Its level of visual sophistication was doubly interesting because it was done not by a museum curator but by a museum director...
...Pudding had interaction with the performing arts at a very young age, and we just feel it’s very important that all students have an opportunity to experience theater.” School district officials, including Superintendent of Schools Thomas D. Fowler-Finn and Director of Visual and Performing Arts Elaine Koury, could not be reached for comment. —Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached at pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu...