This summer, culinary curators Bompas & Parr are transforming Kew’s Palm House Pond into a giant fruit salad boating lake and participatory artwork, featuring a magnificent floating pineapple at the centre.

This surprising installation explores the experiential possibilities of edible fruit and inspires you to think again about the food you eat every day. 

Tutti Frutti is open from Sat 25 May to Sun 1 September 2013, 10am - 5pm (last boat ride one hour before Gardens close)

For more information: http://www.kew.org/visit-kew-gardens/whats-on/incredibles/index.htm

The delightfully diverting HENDRICK’S Carnival of Knowledge – a unique travelling parlour of enlightenment – will offer intellectual sustenance to all minds at this year’s Brighton Fringe (24^th – 27^th  May). 

Designed to stimulate the mind as well as the taste buds, the Carnival of Knowledge brings together the nation’s most expert experts (and erudite amateurs), to create and curate cognitive collaborations for the enrichment of mind and stimulation of soul.

For more information visit: http://www.hendricksgin.com/carnivalofknowledge/

Berlin-born photographer Erwin Blumenfeld (1897–1969) was one of the most internationally sought-after portrait and fashion photographers in the 1940s and 1950s. America’s leading magazines, including Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar hired him for his imaginative and highly individual shots.

Somerset House’s new show, opening on 23^rd of May, focuses on the little-known history of his photography studio at 222 Central Park South in New York. Around 100 colour photographs and originals of Erwin Blumenfeld’s works in fashion magazines provide insights into this key artistic phase in his life.

Clerkenwell Design Week returns next Tuesday, gathering the industries’ leading minds together to debate design’s hottest topics in a series of talks and seminars. CDW will present a wide selection of talks over the three-day event, with speakers including Tom Dyckhoff, Erwan Bouroullec, Patricia Urquiola, Pearson Lloyd, Ab Rogers and Lady Frances Sorrell.

Where: http://www.clerkenwelldesignweek.com/visitor/get-there

When: 21st-23rd May

Image via Clerkwnwell Design Week website

@TFLOfficial and foodie gods @CanteenLondon, are giving the phrase fast food a whole new meaning at this year’s @Clerkenwell13

With design consultancy Very Good and Proper at the wheel, the project sees a contemporary reproduction of a vintage mobile canteen. First appearing on London’s streets in the 1940s as a meals on wheels service for the TFL workforce, Canteen will be reviving the original fare including butties, pie and mash and onion puds.

When - Tuesday 21st - Thursday 23rd May
Where - Farmiloe building on 34-36, St John Street, EC1M 4AY

San Francisco’s foggy reputation is being embraced by hands-on science institution, The Exploratorium, where artist Fujiko Nakaya is harnessing the haze in new installation “Fog Bridge”.

Arrested Development’s frozen banana stand is now real; there’s always money in it…

“In an effort to get you even more excited than Buster after drinking a whole jug of “juice” for the new batch of Arrested Development episodes dropping May 26, Netflix has opened up an exact replica of the show’s frozen banana stand in London. It’ll be popping up around the city for the next two weeks before it moves to New York and L.A., allowing millions to gorge on chocolate-dipped ‘nanas while hitting on their cousins”.

Via Thrillist

Glazed over: Violence, paranoia and buttercream frosting define Scott Hove’s latest exhibition “Guns and Ecstasy”.

“Between wedding cakes bursting with fangs and icing-piped assault rifles, it’s not hard to see why the art of Scott Hove has gained such a strong following. A new exhibition and installation at Spoke Art in San Francisco called “Guns and Ecstasy” looks to cement his reputation of fusing fantasies with nightmares. Playing with social paranoia and our appetite for the absurd, Hove delivers an entertaining and immersive experience”.

Text via Cool Hunting 

Lactose Tolerant: A new, free to all contemporary art space opens in Bloomsbury, London with an exhibition by Swiss artist John Armleder http://

http://dairyartcentre.org.uk/

Get a piece of the action: Watch the Met Gala Red Carpet live on @voguemagazine  from 7 EST, 6 May @metmuseum 

http://www.vogue.com/vogue-daily/article/watch-the-2013-met-gala-red-carpet-live-stream/#1

“The future of no future.” Counting the days until @metmuseum ‘s new exhibit “Punk: Chaos to Couture” 

http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/press-room/exhibitions/2012/punk-chaos-to-couture

WIN 2 tickets for Spin LDN the world’s first urban focused Bicycle festival.

Set in the historic hotbed of consumer cool & street culture at The Old Truman Brewery in East London, SPIN London promises to be the hottest ticket the city has to offer for cycle traders, enthusiasts & the general public.

To enter please send your name and contact to comps@crane.tv and the winner will be selected at random on Monday 29th April at 5pm.

AND THE WINNER IS: RUPERT COMRIE! 

Good Luck!

When: May 4th & 5th open to public all day

Where: The Old Truman Brewery - Brick Lane – London

More info: http://spinldn.com/

“If “BOWIEVIRUS” was an actual communicable disease, we would eagerly sacrifice our immune systems for whatever wild symptoms might accompany the Ziggy Stardust-related illness. Alas, the clever title is not a known medical condition derived from Rock ‘N’ Roll icon David Bowie, it is simply the name of a new exhibit rolling into London’s Institute of Contemporary Art later this month.

Based on an issue of the UK fashion magazine Arena Homme Plus, BOWIEVIRUS was realized by famed photographer David Sims. The issue featured a gaggle of doppelgängers meant to serve as re-contextualized versions of the mercurial pop star”.

The issue will take physical form in the ICA’s exhibition which opens tomorrow 25^th April”.

 Text via The Huffington Post  |  By Katherine Brooks

Chef Ben Spalding’s outdoor dining concept Stripped Back is to become a regular feature at Street Feast, the night food market in Dalston. 

Ben Spalding is no newcomer to the culinary scene. He spent the last 10 years working in some of the world’s most renowned Michelin-starred restaurants including The Fat Duck, L’Autre Pied and Roganic. Expanding on the success of last year’s outdoor pop-up, Stripped Back has returned for a summer stint winning over punters with its raw (not literally) and personal approach.

Pitching up every Friday night the Street Feast market includes a collection of London’s best street food traders, pop up bars, art exhibitions and film screenings.

Food personalities take centre stage in new events series Food & Film launching at the Charlotte Street Hotel next week. A mix of celebrity chefs and food critics will each introduce a film that has influenced their work and passion for food. Expect an intimate screening (food related of course), followed by a three course meal designed by Firmdale’s executive chef Robin Read. And kicking the event off is food aficionado Jonathan Phang, with his chosen flick ‘What’s Cooking’, a comedy about four ethnically diverse families on Thanksgiving.

Date: Starts April 29
Time: 7pm – 10pm
Venue: Charlotte Street Hotel