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The Art Assignment

Art Cooking: Bone Meal

The Art Assignment is a weekly PBS Digital Studios production hosted by curator Sarah Green. We take you around the U.S. to meet working artists and solicit assignments from them that we can all complete.

Art Cooking: Bone Meal

Season 4 Episode 17 | 15m 23s | CC

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943 - 1978) was one of the most influential artists of his generation, and was also the brainchild behind the infamous BONE MEAL in 1971 at the artist-run Food restaurant in New York City's SoHo neighborhood. He served numerous bone-intensive dishes to the guests and then returned their leftover bones to the as necklaces.

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