Food art

Ai Weiwei – Ton of Tea, 2005, Pu’er tea leaves from Yunnan province with wooden base, 100 x 100 x 100 cm (39 1:2 x 39 1:2 x 39 1:2 in) feat

Why did Ai Weiwei create this giant tea cube?

Sculptures / 4 minutes of reading

Ai Weiwei has never held back in terms of the amount of experimentation he’s willing to involve in his art. He has attracted much attention in China and the rest of the world for being a controversial artist. His work A Ton of Tea (2007) is easy to understand, as the name suggests, without …

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Erwin Wurm’s overweight Hot Dog Bus & 50,000 free sausages

Sculptures / 4 minutes of reading

Austrian artist Erwin Wurm is known for his humorous approach towards his art production. One outstanding example is his recent work, for which he transformed a yellow VW Microbus into an overstuffed, larger-than-life Hot Dog Bus. He eventually used it to serve 50,000 free hot dogs to people at the Brooklyn Bridge Park in …

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Why did Danish artist group Superflex flood McDonald’s?

Performances / 2 minutes of reading

In this short film, a life-size replica of a McDonald’s burger bar gets flooded with water gradually. There are images of furniture being washed away in the water, food floating around the room, and electric appliances short-circuit to a halt before space can no longer be seen below the water. While the production lacks …

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Conflict Kitchen - Iranian Takeout, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Conflict Kitchen – This is how conflict tastes

Installations, Performances / 2 minutes of reading

About Conflict Kitchen Conflict Kitchen is a unique restaurant in Pittsburgh focusing on one nation at a time, serving dishes from countries with which the United States is currently in conflict. Each Conflict Kitchen version is amplified by profound events, performances, publications, and discussions that strive to expand the public’s engagement with the culture, politics, …

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Jani Leinonen’s Hunger King – A fast food reply to social inequality

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

What was Hunger King? Located behind a resplendent Opera House in Budapest on the same road as Louis Vuitton sits Hunger King, a place that seems to be just like any other burger joint. However, it is anything but. Hunger King is a regular fast food outlet that is pushed onto the masses; Hunger King …

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Cyprien Gaillard’s Recovery of discovery – A beer pyramid

Installations / 5 minutes of reading

Who is Cyprien Gaillard? Cyprien Gaillard is a French modern artist born in 1980 in the capital of France, Paris. Currently, he lives and works between New York and Berlin. His work oscillates between minimalism, romanticism, vandalism, and land art. Influences Land art artist Robert Smithson created and advocated the concept of entropy. This concept, …

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