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As a President’s Day celebration, artist/baker Zilly Rosen created an art installation at the Smithstonian. The huge cupcake assembly of more than 5,000 cupcakes formed a pixelated portrait of Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama. Rosen planned to donate any leftover cupcakes to homeless shelters. You can listen to an interview at the link below. And be sure to also check out the video above! Photo Credits: Dan Pink and outtacontext  Think Chuck Close meets Betty Crocker... If that weren’t cool enough, Rosen created artwork that was intentionally ephemeral. At 5pm, after the portrait had been glimpsed by a few thousand museum goers, and tens of thousands of others on the AAM webcam, Rosen gathered her staff and together they shouted, “Who wants cupcakes?” Then the artwork was de-installed. That is, Rosen and her team passed out the cupcakes to museum visitors, who then were able to truly consume a work of art.
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