If you attended Nuit Blanche last fall and noticed pairs of police officers dancing the tango in the streets, apparently swept away by music pouring out of cars parked nearby, then you're already familiar with the charming and often funny work of Toronto artist Diane Borsato. It's conceptual art, but you don't need a degree in art theory to appreciate it. In 2003's "Warm Things to Chew On for the Dead," she placed "warm, succulent things from bakeries, rotisseries, and restaurants" on very old graves in a cemetery in Nice, France. In 2002, recovering from surgery and feeling blue, she fit herself into a garbage bag, nestled into a curbside pile of garbage, and had herself photographed.
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Newsstand: November 27, 2009