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Dept. of Funny Signs: allergic to art

Art allergy warning

I find the idea of that it's possible to be allergic to a piece of art inherently funny, but it seems particularly apt at a time when the Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, is using anti-art rhetoric in his election campaign, depicting it as an elitist minority interest. He's pretending to be allergic to all art, and is counting on voters to feel the same way.  But it seems hard to claim that it's an elitist minority interest when hundreds of thousands of people crowded into downtown Toronto on a Saturday night just to enjoy some modern art. The sign above accompanied one of the Nuit Blanche exhibits they could enjoy: Sniff, lick, pinch, nibble, swallow, by Noni Kaur, in an alleyway in Liberty Village. It was made with coloured dessicated coconut.

Coconut art (Sniff, lick, pinch, nibble, swallow, by Noni Kaur), Liberty Village

 

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