Hmmm! ARE ARTISTES UNDER ATTACK?

Artist enclaves seem to be the start of gentrification and you see hand made pottery, hand made bulky (and usually ugly) apparel, etc. and eons ago Second City defined the output as One you pissed on and One you pissed in!

 

 

The case of the missing benches

 

Much-loved Kensington Market hangout gets mysteriously stripped of its sacred seating

 

 

Liberty losing its cool

Revamped city rules shut down artists’ studios that made up the nabe’s cultural heart