Food & Drink

Sparklecorn

Saturday night, #BlogHer10 came to a close with the Sparklecorn party which glorified and embraced the tackiness of glitter and unicorns. Take a minute to watch the video of the awesome unicorn cake from Charm City Cakes and then you’ll only have the smallest taste of what Sparklecorn was.

There was also an abundance of glow jewelry, unicorn shaped glitter, candy, 80s music, and a plentiful supply of free drink tickets that needed to be used up at that last party on #pinktwitters.

The #pinktwitter was the signature cocktail of the event and is made up of orange flavored Ketel One vodka, lemonade, grenadine, and mint.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Earlier in the week, my mom and I visited the Met where I assessed that tacky is nothing new. I observed antique glitter, unicorns, excessive use of hair styling products, and gold pet jewelry.

Our first stop within the Met was American Decorative Arts where I was particularly interested in seeing the Tiffany stained glass. The Tiffany pieces were amazing and there were displayed along with some of the work of his next closest competitor and when you look at the pieces side by side it’s obvious that Tiffany was a much, much more talented artist and his name really does deserve the regard it holds today. My favorite of the Tiffany pieces was the Autumn Landscape stained glass window.

On our way through the American Decorative Arts area, I observed a sconce covered in mica (which is the ingredient used in cosmetics, paints, plastics, and inks to make them sparkle). The sconce, made in the early 18th century, would hold and candle and the candlelight would make the whole thing glitter like crazy.

Next we visited the Greek and Roman Art collection. While sitting to rest our feet in a massive hall of marble statues, we observed a young Hercules with a lion pelt over his arm. The lion’s hair was styled the same as all of the other Greek hair and we decided that the Greek’s must’ve used a seriously strong hair sculpting product.

Upstairs in the study collections, we looked at the Etruscan art. Etruscans being possibly the indigenous people of Italy who lived in the area that is now Tuscany before they were assimilated by the Romans. The Etruscans must have really loved their pets because a display case of their gold jewelry included jewelry for pets that had been made in 500-300BC. And I thought humans had only imagined the tackiness of dressing up and decorating our pets in the last 10 or so years.

While on our way out of the Museum, we walked through the Midevil Art gallery where I caught a glimpse of a unicorn out of the corner of my eye. Upon further exploration of the Met’s collection database from home, I’ve discovered that they have many unicorn related art pieces and next time I’m in New York, I’ll certainly visit The Cloisters which houses a story about a unicorn in the form of 8 tapestries.

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