Monday, October 05, 2009

The women come and go, talking of Michelangelo

Autumn's all night contemporary art thing has been celebrated, criticized, attended, boycotted, and declared irrelevant. Everyone has an opinion on Nuit Blanche. It has been called over-branded, over-crowded, and too-905 friendly. It has also lined our streets with smiling faces and out-of-towners who, for once, have something positive to say about Toronto.

I weighed in with my own experience already, but decided to assemble what Toronto's Twitterati had to say about this year's Nuit Blanche. Parties, crowds and criticism follows:

The art kids were prepared to party, regardless of what nature had to say

And some developed a bit of a crush on Toronto's all-night arts-thing

Not everyone was a fan of Koons' commercial centerpiece (namely this Disney actor tweeting to Degrassi's Lauren Collins)

And even when the art was good, the crowds were overkill

Of the traffic: it was easy to tell the patrons from the party-goers

Torontoist and Art Stars provided live coverage, including the social observations of Ms. Ashley Carter

Morale seemed up, even if what the city saw, well, sucked, as party-boy promoter Matt Sims thinks it did

For some, like Shirk Magazine's Brittney, the night had a movie script ending

But by the time the festival settled, most just wanted sleep

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