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Article: ART ALL AROUND US
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2002
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[A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS STORY.]
BUT IS IT art? The question has been debated since man first put
paint on canvas - or maybe before - and the answer from Boston's Oni
Gallery probably has the purists decrying the decline of
civilization.
There, on the fourth floor of a ramshackle ghost of a Chinatown
garment factory that is undergoing renovations, hangs a display of
Mat Brown's cartoon covers from Building 19 advertising circulars.
Why? Because they're laugh-out-loud funny - and because the
gallery likes to make art accessible to people who can't tell a
Rembrandt from a van Gogh.
Museums with a sense of humor - and marketing - have also been
enticing the art-phobic ...