Nuit Blanche... That's French for "Art All Over the Place"

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Nuit Blanche in video

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I was lucky enough to visit Toronto during Nuit Blanche, a newly-annual free celebration of contemporary art. Throughout the downtown core, galleries and museums threw wide their doors aaaaaaallllll night long to throngs of passersby, and exterior walls and windows became canvasses and screens for paintings and projections. Bands played, singers sang, and pedestrians wandered into traffic, eyes glued to the windows of the surprising number of galleries dotting the landscape.

I was in Zone C (West Queen West), which had a much more DIY feel, including graffiti murals, hijacked billboards, and strange things done with plastic. Sculpture, set pieces, paintings and so much more were on display. Spliff-smoking hipsters, Champagne-swirling art snobs, bemused tourists, and folks just trying to get to their local through the massive crowds all found themselves brushing shoulders from dusk until dawn.

Meanwhile, in another part of town, some folks were moving their furniture to a new house "piece by piece". Sure, it fulfills the terms of the lease... but is it art?

 To the right is a hastily-compiled video montage of what was on display.

Nuit Blanche... c'est hyper-chic!