I actually could have attended this event.
If I had been on the mailing list. Or, had made a mega donation. Or knew someone who knew someone. Or paid attention to my mail… other than the please remit kind. But, then again, if I had gone, what would I have worn?
Anyway, this serve yourself, pour for yourself, guess what you might be eating and eat it anyway, is clearly setting a pretty high bar for those who cater these fetes.
After all, how many caterers have you talked to who suggested suspending cheese that melts which then dispenses it's drippings on crackers carefully piled beneath. Really, not your run of the mill cheese whiz on a Ritz.
Performance art eating. I like it.
One could jump into a pile of peanuts, imbibe by turning the spigots on paintings dispensing a beverage of your choosing, or my very favorite, vats of powdered sugar, accompanied by long yellow gloves so one could root around to dig up buried Viennese walnut cookies.
Sounds like it was a hoot. If you went, regale me.
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Well I did go and am impressed that you “got it” so easily- being absent! It was as hoot and half and a scavenger hunt too. Finding a glass (500 of all sizes on a table)and then choosing the weird martini coming out of a spigot from the wall or white wine pouring out of faucets from big urns or finally at dinner finding plain ole water – was fun for starters.
The cheese thing was so clever- Rauschenberg drips- but the gorgonzola really did smell up the place. Part of the performance.
People were dressed up in fabulous outfits and some did their hair the old fashioned way. I represented 2010 un-cool.
Dinner was even better because 500 people were seated at 4 long-long tables medieval style. Buffet from mammoth tables in the center. Serve your self. Have Mario B carve your rabbit (from whole ones,almost erie seeing 30 cooked rabbits facing you) or 30 turkey breats or 30 ducks – all ready for consumption. And then there was the potato mound – so many colors and sizes and even tasty.
Great art – great idea -great fun.
Fabulous party – glad it happened in Brooklyn. Where else?
Go see the costume exhibit. It is great even without the food!
Bobye