Table for 10: The Art, History and Science of Food infuses the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts with a flavorful menu of museum exhibitions, public programs, and special events in Summer/Fall 2010. This region-wide promotion organized by Museums10, a partnership of ten outstanding museums and galleries, brings together diverse offerings—from exhibitions and cooking demonstrations to lectures and tastings—including a multi-media show at the Paradise City Arts Festival with a silent art auction and food drive to benefit the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts. Preview the full menu of events and exhibitions. Connect with us on facebook.

THIS WEEK TABLE FOR 10 PRESENTS:

Luscious: Painting by Emily Eveleth and a gallery talk by the artist at 6pm, Smith College Museum of Art.

What is the importance of wine in Western culture? Trace its timeless story through art from antiquity to the present day. The works of art on display at Mount Holyoke College Art Museum illustrate wine's changing relationship to religious ritual, healing, and social change.

Historic Deerfield’s new exhibition explores the social, cultural, and artistic importance of dining in early America with displays in the lobby of the Flynt Center of Early New England Life, as well as in three dining rooms of historic houses. On view through February 27, 2011.

LUSCIOUS features at the Smith College Museum of Art Emily Eveleth's paintings of her signature subject: jam-filled "Berliner" or "Bismarck" doughnuts. The paintings simultaneously take on aspects of still life, landscape, portraiture, and sensuous bodily references. Works in the show range from Eveleth's monumental canvases, for which she is best known, to recent explorations of her signature motif on small wood panels. A 1983 graduate of Smith College, Eveleth currently lives and works in Sherborn, Massachusetts, outside Boston.

An exhibition at the National Yiddish Book Center. The tale of the American Jewish experience in America -- the search for a balance between acculturation and identity -- has long been told in kitchen pots and grocery shelves, and it continues today. View photos from the opening.