Art Boozel: Cocktails Inspired by Modern and Contemporary Artists

Raise a glass to the world's most exciting modern and contemporary artists in this inspired cocktail book with over 50 tribute recipes, including:

Frida Kahlo used her joys and sorrows to create one of art history’s most brilliant and imaginative bodies of work. Known for wildly colorful self-portraits that combined traditional Mexican folk art with surreal symbolism, she approached both art and life with a rare originality. Her last painting depicted watermelons, and her cocktail pairs them with tequila for a drink as fearless and beautiful as its namesake.

Melting watches, swarming ants, elephants with long, spindly limbs, and other hallucinatory images haunt the works of Salvador Dalí. His cocktail is also a supreme pleasure, and a little peculiar. It makes use of Spanish oloroso sherry, washed with sesame oil, and is garnished with a surreal trail of black sesame seeds that, at a glance, could be ants.

With her plump neon pumpkins and fairy-lit, cosmic dream worlds, the Japanese Pop artist Yayoi Kusama is a perfect fit for the social-media era—the millions of selfies taken in her ethereal mirrorscape installations have been an Instagram staple for years. But Kusama is more than just a meme: Now in her nineties, she’s one of the most important living artists. Kusama’s drink riffs on her beloved pumpkins, with their sweetness balancing out the tartness of lime and grapefruit.