Food for art: The Silverman Gallery offers unusually satisfying late summer fare with "Food for Thought," organized by Sabina Buell, West Coast director of the Matthew Marks Gallery.

The title comes from a Joseph Beuys multiple on view: an annotated typewritten list of food items found at a British supermarket in 1977. But the exhibition holds bigger surprises. Each morning of the show, per the instructions of Daphne Fitzpatrick, Jessica Silverman puts a baguette outside the storefront gallery's door. Each day something different happens to it, ranging from disappearance to being kicked back in accidentally by oblivious late-afternoon visitors.

I think Beuys would have approved.

Fellow New Yorker Leidy Churchman seems to respond to the vogue for TV cooking shows with a looped video that runs in reverse, showing him carefully making sliced fruit and vegetables whole with a large knife.

Corin Hewitt, another East Coaster, offers three manipulated photos from a project called "Seed Stage" (2008-09). The pictures give no sense of the project, but they update the still-life format in a fractured fashion that somehow touches current anxieties about global food supply and the fetishizing of food among the affluent.

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