Tag: Sugar
Kara Walker’s A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby is not subtle. Dusted with 40 tons of bleached sugar, it stands nearly four stories high and lays 75 and a half feet long across the gutted cavern of the Domino Sugar Factory, which will soon to destroyed and replaced with a glossy condo complex. The New Yorker called the work, unsubtly, “Mammy-as-Sphnix.” […]
Still freaking out about NASA’s latest efforts to 3D print a pizza, there’re even sweeter developments in the emerging technology. It is now possible to 3D print with sugar as a medium. New micro-design firm the Sugar Lab originally intended to 3D print an entire birthday cake for a friend. Due to their initial failed attempts, the team decided to compromise […]
SmackMellon — one of the venues hit hardes by Hurricane Sandy — is back! The DUMBO art gallery features a new installation by artist Aude Moreau who created a Persian carpet covered in intricate, floral designs made from sugar. Two tons of sugar. Behold, Sugar Carpet. There’s nothing stopping visitors from messing up the hard work […]
