Let them eat art
Jane Yoo reports.
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New York City—The Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibit at the Museum of Arts & Design will run through June 17, but one of its most exciting installations has already come and gone. For the first event generated by the exhibit, the Manhattan museum hosted a "high tea," featuring an edible installation piece by Dutch artist Katja Gruijters. The $25 tickets sold out quickly, and even the museum's security guard was taken aback by the ravenous turnout. For the lucky 50 to 60 people who came to view the art and eat it too, Gruijters' lace tiles made of chocolate, sugar candy, shortbread, and genoise were spread over tables as confectionary quilts and paired with a Museum of Arts & Design tea blend, specially created for the event by The Shaded Leaf.
For the other 800-plus people who walk through the museum's doors every day, individual tiles of sugar candy and white, milk, or dark chocolate, called Ander Kant, or "other lace," are on sale in the gift shop. Gruijters has more food/art projects on the horizon, but they're "still a secret." She can reveal, however, that she's "working on a new beer concept and something with flowers." Make reservations in advance.
For info: www.katjagruijters.nl; www.theshadedleaf.com.
