Last week in Brooklyn, people bashed Andy Warhol’s head with baseball bats, and pastries fell out. It was at a museum, and Mr. Warhol’s head was actually a 20-foot-tall piñata. Celeb chef Mario Batali broke his bat on Andy’s face.
The spectacle introduced the dessert course at the Brooklyn Museum fundraising gala. Warhol’s head contained packaged Little Debbie snack cakes and/or Hostess Sno-Balls (accounts differ). The main course was roasted bunnies, and there was obviously lots of alcohol. There may have been some art around somewhere, too.
Best headline:
“In the Future, Everyone Will Be a Piñata for 15 Minutes,” Dave Itzkoff, New York Times Arts Beat blog.
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April 26, 2010 at 8:10 pm
I would have expected the piñata to be filled with cans of Campbell’s Soup.
April 26, 2010 at 8:17 pm
HAL wrote: I would have expected the piñata to be filled with cans of Campbell’s Soup.
Metal cans full of liquid falling from heights of up 30 feet are a bit rough on arts patrons. This was more of a Ho-Ho and Ding-Dong crowd.