Artists are feeling fruity in the Pineapple Show

Botanical historyand, all right, Wikipediaposits that Christopher Columbus brought back the first pineapples to Spain from their native South America, thus making the pineapple the first bromeliad to be introduced by humans outside of the New World. The global cultivation, and symbolic importance, of the ananas comosus is the subject of a summer exhibition opening today at Londons Tiwani Contemporary gallery (8 July-13 August). The Pineapple Show promises to mine, expose and