Edible art

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Last Thursday, April 22, the Brooklyn Ball celebrated the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition “American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection,” which introduces the long-awaited debut of a costume collection that is the result of a partnership between the Brooklyn Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The buzz surrounding the Brooklyn Ball was all about the edible art. Artist Jennifer Rubell created a series of edible food installations called Icons. Each installation is inspired by works by 20th-century artists. Icons was “an interactive food journey through the Museum including drinking paintings, suspended melting cheese heads and more.”

The most-discussed piece of the event was a 20-foot-tall piñata in the shape of Andy Warhol’s head (based on his 1986 self-portrait). Rubell told the New York Times that the piñata would “contain the vernacular of American treats.”

This article from the Wall Street Journal provides a comical explanation of the Brooklyn Ball and how the “fashionable crowd” interacted with the installations. Check out the Brooklyn Museum’s Flickr page to see photos of all the edible installations.