--- title: 2022_Sam Van Aken_The New Yorker date: 2022-04-20T15:22:00-04:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2022/2022-sam-van-aken-the-new-yorker" section: News --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [Sam Van Aken](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) The Four-Hundred-Year-Old Fruit That Built New York The New Yorker Apr 11, 2022 Sam Van Aken cultivates fruit, binges on fruit, and searches for long-lost fruit, so naturally he has opinions on fruit. His favorite is a lumpy brown apple called the Ashmead’s Kernel. “It looks like somebody taped a potato to the tree,” he said recently, while tending to his nursery, on Governors Island. “But you bite into it and it has this floral bouquet. It’s not like a Gala or a Fuji—industrialized apples.” The Ashmead’s, which used to grow in New York, has three distinct flavors, like a Bordeaux. “I always thought wine tasting was pretentious,” he said. “Now I’m talking about fruit this way.” **[Read more here.](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/18/the-four-hundred-year-old-fruit-that-built-new-york)** Related News & Press Jan 10, 2022 [ ![Osorio Badge of Honor 1995 front of store 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Osorio-Badge-of-Honor-1995-front-of-store_1.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2022/2022-osorio-moma-magazine) Jan 10, 2022 MoMA Magazine [Pepón Osorio](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/pep%C3%B3n-osorio) [Grief, Trauma, Love: A Discussion between Nicole Fleetwood and Pepón Osorio](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2022/2022-osorio-moma-magazine) Jan 01, 2022 [ ![Wilke So Help Me Hannah 1978 coming up stairs through stair grid](/assets/exhibition_images/Wilke-So-Help-Me-Hannah-1978-coming-up-stairs-through-stair-grid.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2022/2022-wilke-artforum) Jan 01, 2022 Artforum [Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) [Daniel Kraus on Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2022/2022-wilke-artforum) Nov 01, 2021 [ ![Hannah Wilke with Ponder r rosa 4](/assets/exhibition_images/Hannah-Wilke-with-Ponder-r-rosa-4.jpeg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021/2021-wilke-newcity-art) Nov 01, 2021 [Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) [Subject and Object: Rethinking Feminist Icon Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021/2021-wilke-newcity-art) Oct 20, 2021 [ ![Wilke Intra Venus 4 July 261992 February 19 1992 Edit](/assets/exhibition_images/Wilke-Intra-Venus-4-July-261992-February-19-1992-Edit.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021/2021-wilke-art-in-america-online) Oct 20, 2021 Art in America [Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) [Hannah Wilke: Living as Art](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021/2021-wilke-art-in-america-online) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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