With Solo exhibitions at the Museum of the City of New York, the Arsenal in Central Park, the Municipal Art Society, the Hudson River Museum, the Noble Maritime Collection, NYU Fales Library, and The National Arts Club, Bascove has documented and celebrated the Bridges of New York City. She has worked with The New York, Brooklyn, and Roosevelt Island Historical Societies, and has lectured and arranged events with the Museum of the City of New York, the Central Park Conservancy, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, the Municipal Art Society, NYU Fales Library, and the Hudson River Museum. Three collections of her paintings, accompanied by anthologies of related writings: Sustenance & Desire: A Food Lover’s Anthology of Sensuality and Humor (2004), Where Books Fall Open: A Reader’s Anthology of Wit and Passion (2001), a 2002 Book Sense Selection; and Stone and Steel: Paintings and Writings Celebrating the Bridges of New York City (1998), have been published by David R. Godine. She is an artist with ACA Galleries in New York City and an art reviewer at The Three Tomatoes.com and NY Arts Magazine.
“With my whole body I taste these peaches” Wallace Stevens
Food nourishes and sustains us through each stage of life. There is nothing more essential than eating, yet it can be enjoyed with such pleasure and ritual that it becomes the living embodiment of our culture, history, and family life. A love affair without the sharing of food is as unthinkable as an empty kitchen.
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