Charlie Grosso, Director of Baang + Burne Contemporary spoke at the Emerging Collectors Symposium for Finch & Ada along with Marisa Sage from “Like the Spice” Gallery and Independent Curator Savannah Spirit.

The panel is geared towards the Emerging Art Collectors to remove the intimation out of art buying and start collecting.

The event is part of Finch & Ada’s current exhibit, The Pleasure is All Mine, a group show featuring work that is about pleasure, happiness and joy.

If you miss the event and would like to learn more about collecting art, Baang + Burne Contemporary has a free E-Book “Art Buying for Emerging Collectors” available to down load on their website.

April 2010

Charlie Grosso was recently a panelist for “Picturing Food” hosted by Zocalo Public Square at The Getty Center in Los Angeles. The panel was in conjunction with The Getty Center’s latest exhibit, “Tasty Food”. The event was moderated by Evan Kleiman of Good Foods on KCRW, along with Artbites’ Maite Gomez-Rejon and Gastronomica founding editor Darra Goldstein.

In the brief hour, the panel covered a wide range of topics from food porn to the new fad of food blogging. If you miss the event at you can view a video archive of it below:

Picturing Food at The Getty Center

Dwell on Design LA 09

In 2008 Dwell created the Square Meal section as a place in which to explore the intersection of food and design. Beginning with the feats of gastroengineering found at Alinea restaurant in Chicago and most recently checking out urban beekeeping on the rooftops of Toronto’s restaurant, Square Meal has become a regular feature in the pages of Dwell.

At this year’s Dwell on Design in Los Angeles, Dwell is bringing Square Meal to life with a series of special food-related events and programming.

I have been invited to participate in a panel discussion on Sunday, June 28; “Meat as an Edible Gestalt” as a part of Dwell on Design. The panel will be moderated by Dwell editor Sarah Rich and KCRW’s Evan Kleiman, host of the popular radio show Good Food. Other distinguished speakers include Sasha Wizansky, founder and editor of Meatpaper magazine, and Neal Fraser of Grace Restaurant.

For more information on the 3 day Dwell on Design LA events as well as the panel discussion I will be part of:
http://www.dwell.com/articles/square-meal-a-3-day-feast.html