Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

To celebrate St. Valentine’s Day and Presidents Day, the Smithsonian American Art Museum invited artist/baker Zilly Rosen to create a dual portrait of Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln.

The pixel portrait, formed by a grid of cupcakes, was a purposefully ephemeral artwork. After it had been assembled, the artists encouraged the crowd of onlookers to grab a buttercream filled cupcake and proceed to NOM.

• The Smithsonian Institution’s “CupCake Art – A New Birth of Freedom” PhotoSet
• outtacontext’s “Presidential Cupcakes” PhotoSet
• Daniel H. Pink’s thrilling first person account
• National Public Radio audio piece about the spectacle

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