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# Onion: City Opens Art Jail
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/onion-city-opens-art-jail/
- Published: 2011-07-20T17:53:34.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:19:35.000Z
- Description: Dear Onion, will you please have my baby? Here is their latest brilliance … "Most visitors to the art jail … said they were grateful for the opportunity to see the prisoners, though some acknowledged … [it] was emotionally complicated for them."
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, #image-position-hidden, LOL, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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Dear Onion, will you please have my baby?

Here is their latest brilliance, “[City Opens Art Jail](http://www.theonion.com/articles/city-opens-new-art-jail,20967/?ref=hyperallergic.com)“:

> Most visitors to the art jail on Tuesday said they were grateful for the opportunity to see the prisoners, though some acknowledged the experience was emotionally complicated for them.  
>  
> “My dad’s been in places like this ever since I can remember,” said Jim Rothko, standing outside the Abstract Expressionist cell block. “I always try to come by and see him from time to time, but it’s hard. Deep down, though, I have to admit this is where he belongs.”

Nailed it.

*h/t Nick Riggle*