{"id":3678,"date":"2008-10-07T10:51:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T14:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/10\/07\/dept-of-funny-signs-allergic-to-art\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:54:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:54:19","slug":"dept-of-funny-signs-allergic-to-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/10\/07\/dept-of-funny-signs-allergic-to-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Dept. of Funny Signs: allergic to art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3186\/2915146283_2244382d55.jpg?v=0\" title=\"Art allergy warning\" alt=\"Art allergy warning\" height=\"179\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I find the idea of that it&#8217;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&#8217;s pretending to be allergic to all art, and is counting on voters to feel the same way.\u00a0 But it seems hard to claim that it&#8217;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: <em>Sniff, lick, pinch, nibble, swallow<\/em>, by Noni Kaur, in an alleyway in Liberty Village. It was made with coloured dessicated coconut.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3073\/2915991782_09248cc1ac.jpg?v=0\" title=\"Coconut art (Sniff, lick, pinch, nibble, swallow, by Noni Kaur), Liberty Village\" alt=\"Coconut art (Sniff, lick, pinch, nibble, swallow, by Noni Kaur), Liberty Village\" height=\"383\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find the idea of that it&#8217;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. 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