Experiencing Nuit Blanche: A Night of Art and Revelry in Toronto

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One night, every year, over one million people swarm downtown for the biggest contemporary art event Toronto has to offer: Nuit Blanche. As an annual event that has been running for over a decade now, a few things have remained constant throughout the years: chilly weather, drizzles of rain, and hordes of slightly drunken college students meandering through the streets. Some people go for the art. Some people pretend to go for the art, but actually just use the night as an excuse to get really high and really intoxicated. Most of us stand around, scratching our heads in bemusement because, seriously, what is art? I can’t claim to be an arts person. I was walking down the street for a while when my attention was captured by something large and shiny. An exhibit? Cool art?! …No, it was just OCAD University. (Which technically is an arts school, so I guess I’m getting somewhere.) …show more content…

You want to learn about art? You want to become a bona fide cultured city slicker? Listen, it’s not hard at all. The experience of art is all in your mind. One exhibit featured a couple dozen flickering lamps hanging from the ceiling, while an incessant buzzing noise resonated in the room. We stood, transfixed, by …show more content…

“Each Portion,” featured in the Art Gallery of Ontario, showcased a video of an array of strawberry jam stained spoons rumbling past on a conveyor belt, faster and faster, the spoons growing progressively blood red. I thought it represented the corruptness of the food industry, the cruelty of factory farming and excessive usage of pesticides, and how, unless we change our disastrous farming practices, we will all feed from our sick and polluted ways, and suffer terribly because of it. (I know, good right?) But apparently, the exhibit really had to do with how we absorb food along with their stories and

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