MATZO ART!!
In the 3,000 years since the Jews fled Egypt with their unleavened dough, no one has come up with anything better to do with it than eat it. And even that's not such a good idea.
That is why it was such a joy to attend the world's first Matzo Sculpture Competition on Monday night at New York University's Bronfman Center. The sponsor — big surprise — was Manischewitz, the country's foremost matzo maker (which, by the way, is now owned by the same holding company that also owns Horowitz Margareten and Goodman's matzo. So much for competition in the kosher aisle)....
What can one fashion out of oversize crackers? The finalists in Monday's contest came forth with matzo candlesticks, a matzo Wailing Wall, even a matzo video game, complete with mini matzo Mario. "Super Mario Brothers is a game of conquest but more notably of oppression," the artist's statement read. "You thought it was a game about pizza-eating plumbers? How could you be so naïve?"....
Erica Dobin had glued her matzos together to make two living rooms representing the homes she had helped salvage as a volunteer in New Orleans. Her work was hauntingly lovely. For his part, art student James Donovan had made an impressive Washington Square Arch — his home away from home — which ended up winning the $1,000 prize.
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