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Toronto's Nuit Blanche has only been around since 2006, but it has rapidly become one of the city's premier art events. As mentioned in our nocturnal live coverage and post-mortem roundup, Nuit Blanche has a lot going for it, but it's still got obvious room to grow. For an event that most people sleep through, however, everyone's got an opinion on whether or not it lives up to the hype.
For some, the works are underwhelming and too few and far between, yet for others, it's one of the few times when Toronto steps outside its dreary box—and that's reason enough to celebrate. You may think it makes modern art accessible to the masses, but perhaps you feel that the installations could be better. Cast a vote, and then head over to last year's poll to see how it compares.
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So Nuit Blanche (pronounced, variously, Newee, Nooie, Nooee, Nooit, and my favourite, Newitt, by Toronto’s blatantly uni-lingual news announcers) the Scotiabank-sponsored “free all night contemporary art thing” is over for another year. Everyone has stumbled home to bed in the early morning hours after having absorbed more culture in one night than they are likely to see for the next 364 days combined.
But fear not; in the spirit of shameless imitation and capitalizing on something that works well, the city of Toronto is presenting the following “Nuit” events with the hope of making huge profits:
-Nuit pooey, the art that was too bad to show at Nuit Blanche
-Nuit Huey, Dewey and Louie, Disney’s tribute to Donald Duck’s nephews
-Nuit Louis-the ROM’s tribute to French royalty
-Nuit Boo-ey, the special scary Hallowe’en version.
-Nuit Shoe-ey, a celebration of footwear.
-Nuit Huey Lewis, a celebration of the greatest Rock ‘n’ Roller of the 80’s.
-Nuit Moo-ey, celebrating the art of dairy farming
-Nuit Stew-ey, dedicated to gravy-based meat and vegetable dishes
-Nuit Chop Suey, to ensure racial equality of the food theme
And finally:
-Nuit Nuit, David Miller’s attempt at saving hydro by turning out all the lights in the Toronto, making it really, really dark, the way night was meant to be.
It was like you were channelling James McIntyre!
Wow, Spacejack, thanks for bringing him to my attention. The Cheese Poet!! Never heard of him before, but it seems that what he did to poetry I can do to humour! And I thought this was going to be a dull day.
Bwah!
Also: Nuit Ratatouille and Nuit Screwy (when sh*t happens).
Comment #1 is the lamest comment in history.
Okay, that was pretty harsh. But really.
Everyone's a critic!
The first comment was pretty awful.
would make a great installment for next year's NB.
there were more people who stunk like weed than interesting installments. what a complete bore
There's a special skill in hiding one's true talents and producing a piece like that. Thank you for noticing.
sense of humour and self deprecation mixed with a dash of healthy criticism...i love comment no. 1....
You are too kind--and you have great taste. Thank you.