{"id":2097,"date":"2007-07-16T08:41:04","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T12:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:51:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:51:35","slug":"honest-ed-retailer-placemaker-dadaist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/07\/16\/honest-ed-retailer-placemaker-dadaist\/","title":{"rendered":"“Honest” Ed: Retailer, Placemaker, Dadaist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Okay, so there’s been immense coverage this past week about Ed Mirvish and his varied impacts on our city. But what are his impacts in the public space realm, good or bad? I know it can go both ways here; some people love that crazy sign, others hate it. I know it’s certainly a useful marker for people newly arrived to the city–though, of course, once you’re inside it’s hard to know where the heck you are. Then there’s the whole Mirvish village thing… it’s a pretty nice block but feels a bit strange that it exists just because the Mirvishes happen to own all the buildings there.
\nOne thing that has provoked a mixed reaction of both horror and enjoyment in me are the low-rent Ed’s window displays. Seriously absurdist; if they were in a gallery context–which is a very different context, granted–all I can say is that they would be seriously like Arte Povera for the 21st century. The good ones at least. They also represent, likely in an unintentionally public way, a very different class demographic than the window displays further east on Bloor.<\/p>\n

I had an opportunity<\/a> in the Sunday Star to talk a little bit about way the Honest Ed’s window displays add a certain kitschy je ne sais quoi to the corner of Bathurst and Bloor, but I’m interested if there’s any other way that people think about the impact of Mirvish’s store and life on the city, good and bad.<\/p>\n

photo by Little Dragon<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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