Eat Art

Culture vultures will love this art tour/dinner party twofer. Spend an hour following museum educators Eleanor Whitney and Tracy Candido around the Brooklyn Museum, checking out local artists—like Fred Wilson and Valerie Hegarty—who use classical ideas to explore modern social issues. Then, hightail it to a private home in nearby Prospect Heights, where you can compare notes over a five-course dinner prepared by your tour guides, blogger Sharif Hassan (2cooksinthekitchen.com) and NYU Food Studies graduate Meghan Boledovich. Argue aesthetics over dishes like warm salad of frisée and radicchio with baby lettuce with buttermilk-bacon dressing, and beer-braised andouille sausage with root vegetable mash and horseradish cream. Two drinks are included in the ticket price: Choose between Bellwether Hard Cider or a Maine Bee Sting cocktail (vodka, Maine honey, lemon and chili).