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achived URL: http://americanart.si.edu/calendar/activities...

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start date and time: Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 12:00 PM

end date and time: Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 6:30 PM

categories:   arts & culture

event description:

video webcast -

Artist Zilly Rosen and her team create portraits of Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln using over 5,600 cupcakes at the Smithsonian's Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. The double portrait will be entitled "A New Birth of Freedom."

The event will take place on February 13 and continue on February 14 and visitors to the museum on the evening of the 14th will be able to eat the cupcakes (Lincoln is vanilla with chocolate icing and Obama is chocolate with vanilla icing and the flag is red velvet).

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