Actually,
it appears I may have picked the wrong week to be in New York. Had I been there this week I could have
schlepped along to Vanderbilt Hall, in Grand Central Station to see a “mini
gallery” set up by Costello cheese displaying “famous still-life paintings alongside replicas made
entirely out of cheese. Works by Flemish artist Clara Peeters, as well as
American still-life artists Raphaelle Peale and John F. Francis will be
recreated, among other noted masters of the genre.” Or so I read - I'm quoting from Gothamist. Clara Peeter’s Still Life With Cheeses, Artichokes and Cherries, c 1625, looks like this:
Are they really going to
make artichokes and cherries out of cheese, I wonder? Certainly they might have more trouble
recreating Picasso’s Still Life With
Cheese, 1944.
In any case, at some
point in the proceedings, late in the day presumably, punters will be able to
eat these works of art. Cool.
I also read that “food
artists Jim Victor and Marie Pelton will be hand-carving some new works out of
Selection Hirten cheese, a hard cheese akin to Parmesan. “Previously they
created Manhattan for a Castello pop-up store, which looked like this:
As a man who has
constructed, and then deconstructed, Stonehenge out of butter, I feel suddenly,
improbably, part of an artistic community.
