When Food is Art

During 2010, the curators at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are exploring food, art, culture and politics, creating exhibits that will inspire art lovers with a great appetite. EATLACMA unfolds seasonally, with artists’ gardens planted and harvested on the museum campus in conjunction with hands-on public events. This year, a concurrent exhibition, Fallen Fruit Presents The Fruit of LACMA, will run from June 27-November 7, 2010. It culminates in a daylong event on November 7, 2010.

Here’s a look at some of what is planned: The Bittersweet Melon Council, a collaborative artists group aiming to educate about this underappreciated vegetable, has embarked on a garden project called “Promiscuous Production: Breeding is Bittersweet.” They will plant sweet and bitter melons in a “Farmden” (farm + garden), in the hopes that “planting the melons together in a garden designed for maximum vine-to-vine contact” will make for some irresistible cross-pollination and the invention of a Bittersweet Melon hybrid. This garden will exist as a trellis construction, built with bamboo harvested from the grove by the BP Grand Entrance. Word on the street is that there will also be a fish taco garden, but details are underground for now.—Denise Shoukas

Denise Shoukas is a regular foodspring.com contributor and is the author of foodspring’s food forager blog.

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