Art Fair is just around
Art Fair is just around the corner, and you can feel the anticipation. “For 4 days every July, the award-winning Ann Arbor Street Art Fair takes over the streets in the South University area of downtown Ann Arbor as the original and smallest of three concurrent art fairs that span a collective 26 blocks,” the official site announces. “Award-winning” being the part they want you to focus on. “Takes over the streets” and “for 4 days” being the event’s defining characteristics.
Being the enthusiastic city booster that I am, I was all set to camp out on South University for the opening, until a correspondent of mine told me that Art Fair may not be the seamless marriage of art and community to which I was eagerly looking forward.
ART FAIR SUCKS A BIG FAT ONE. I’m proud to say I’ve avoided it at all costs every single year I’ve lived here, and I actually laughed four years ago when there was a massive thunderstorm and people were diving underneath tables to get out of the hail, like that Guns n’ Roses video. It served those stupid, pretentious out-of-towners who sell milk-carton sculptures for $600 right.