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# Brooklyn Museum’s “Art-ocrats” Ball: The Remains
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/brooklyn-museum-2010-ball-remains/
- Published: 2010-04-27T13:46:13.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:03:15.000Z
- Description: Curator, critic, and blogger Nicole J. Caruth didn’t attend last week’s food event at the Brooklyn Museum but she did get in for the after party. During her post-bacchanalia visit she was able to shoot the remains of the food orgy.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, #image-position-hidden, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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Turkeys carcasses in the Brooklyn Museum’s Beaux-Arts Court (via Cont. Confections/Nicole J. Caruth Flickstream)

Curator, critic, and blogger [Nicole J. Caruth](http://www.contemporaryconfections.com/2010/04/brooklyn-ball-2010-remains.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) didn’t attend last week’s food gala at the Brooklyn Museum but she did get in for the after party. During her post-bacchanalia visit she was able to shoot the remains of the food orgy. The images are utterly surreal when juxtaposed against the European paintings in the distance.

She writes, “ … I was looking at piles of cooked rabbits and mangled pig carcasses in the third-floor Beaux-Arts Court. I heard from a few meat lovers on staff that even they found this scene disturbing.”

I think someone at the Brooklyn Museum needs to start circulating a copy of [*Food, Inc.*](http://www.foodincmovie.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) to the staff.

*Visit Flickr for her complete* [*set of images*](http://www.flickr.com/photos/11669766@N00/sets/72157623916815330/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*