Food as performance art, transformed through wizardry and wit, is now seen as the signature style of modern Spanish restaurants.
Yet, the moment turns out to be an exaltation of classic art, transforming the low joke into a warm and hearty recollection.
In 1964 he started attending a samba school in one of Rio's favelas, or shantytowns, and his immersion in this performance-based popular art transformed his work.
The scintillating light rippling down over the foliage of trees and the frothy waves of a waterfall in "Alpheus and Arethusa," very far removed from Claude's art, transforms the landscape into a magical land.
In the process, they permanently altered the geography of American art, transforming the Village — at least, in the minds of poets and painters — into the place where everything happens first.
Your first hit, or breakthrough, was An Oak Tree (1973), [a glass of water on a high shelf with accompanying notes explaining how the artist had, through art, transformed the object into an oak tree].
Some years ago, Mr. Dankner, a fan of American Indian art, transformed his banquet hall into a pantheon of Indian design, including a map depicting locations of various tribes in the United States.
"Architecture must go beyond buildings because buildings are not enough," declared the curator Aaron Betsky, who proceeded to fill the exhibition with bad art, transforming the Arsenale into a gauntlet of inscrutable installations by the ageing architectural elite.
This art transformed the boards on which it was painted -- but also those who created the murals -- as well as those who witnessed the "Paint for Peace" effort.
It was thanks to the DIA's Student Writings About Art project (1989-2002) thet the breath of art transformed my writing classroom, a creative space that contained the seeds of InsideOut.
