Abstractionist Adam Pendleton designed the wrappers for Casa Bosques’ latest chocolate bar line. | Casa Bosques Chocolate In-demand Casa Bosques Chocolate is sold for the first time in D.C. starting Friday, April 4 Art, coffee, and cacao collide this spring inside the Smith sonian’s iconic Hirshhorn museum. Mexico City’s Casa Bosques Chocolate and D.C.-area cafe Dolcezza team up on a limited-edition coffee caramel chocolate bar to celebrate the modern art museum’s new black-and-white exhibit, Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen, which debuts this week. Starting Friday, April 4, the bars will be sold in its lobby-level Dolcezza Cafe and lower-level gift shop — marking the first time Casa Bosques’ chocolates are sold IRL in the nation’s capital. (People can buy them online, as well.) The trendy chocolate line, endorsed by the likes of Vogue, New York Times, and Airmail, is the antithesis of Hershey’s; its two key ingredients are organic cane sugar and heirloom cacao beans, which exclusively come from a small ranch in the southern Mexican region of Pichucalco, Chiapas. Five-year-old Casa Bosques Chocolate is a project by Rafael Prieto, the founder and creative director of Mexico City- and Tribeca-based design firm Savvy Studio, which has a history of collaborating with artists. The Mexico City chocolate store doubles as an art bookshop and inn, and he’s considering adding a walk-in NYC location one day. Photo by Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. From Friday, April 4 to January 3, 2027, the Hirshhorn dedicates its entire second floor to 35 new and recent paintings (and a single-channel video) by Pendleton, which marks the American abstractionist’s first solo exhibit in D.C. The 70-percent dark chocolate bars, infused with Dolcezza coffee, vanilla-scented caramel, and finished with its signature C.B.B. stamp, cost $15 each. Casa Bosques says it created 600 bars for its latest artist series, and more will be made according to demand. The wrapper doubles as a wall-worthy souvenir, sporting Pendleton’s signature black-and-white palette layered with drips, splashes, and sprays. The Richmond, Virginia native designed six collectable chocolate bar wrappers in all, as well as the 10-ounce latte cups that Dolcezza will use for the duration of his show. The stylish cups are also available through Sunday, May 4 at Dolcezza’s six other area locations. Dolcezza is also making a limited-edition soft serve flavor around the exhibit. The circular museum and sculpture garden on the National Mall that turned 50 last year is one of the latest government-funded institutions under attack by the Trump administration; a new executive order announced on Thursday, March 27 aims to remove “anti-American ideology” across its 21 Smithsonian museums (the Hirshhorn was not specifically named, but several others were). A Hirshhorn rep confirms the exhibit opens to the public on Friday, April 4, adding the museum and its cafe stays open 2.5 hours later (until 8 p.m.) that night. Pendleton’s collections have also appeared inside the MoMa and Guggenheim in NYC; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Tate Modern, London. Hirshhorn is also home to Auguste Rodin’s famed “The Burghers of Calais” sculpture, Yayoi Kusama’s infinity mirrors, and a current Basquiat x Banksy exhibit. ...read more read less