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Culinary passion and art-making can flourish together in the right hands, such as those of Rirkrit Tiravanija, who has explored meals-as-art-medium, and the artist-founded restaurant Food, started in SoHo in the early 1970s by Gordon Matta-Clark and others.
Now, the Whitney Museum of American Art is rebooting its restaurant spaces with commissioned artworks by two top contemporary makers, Rashid Johnson and Dyani White Hawk, and their works are also entering the museum’s collection.
“We didn’t design these spaces and then ask artists to fill a spot,” said Scott Rothkopf, who took over as Whitney director from Adam D. Weinberg on Wednesday. “We asked the artists first, and found out what they wanted to do. It’s a very Whitney way of doing it.”
This month, the ground floor space, which once housed the Untitled restaurant, will become a cafe from Frenchette Bakery, making it a second branch of the casual TriBeCa outpost by the team behind the high-end Frenchette and Le Rock restaurants. It will feature take-away fare at first, and sit-down dining in the future. White Hawk’s work will be installed in December on the museum’s eighth floor.
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