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A Melbourne Art Student currently loitering out front of the the world’s largest art museum and historic monument in Paris, says everything inside is just so lame compared to Brunswick’s contemporary artistic video scene.

Charlotte Parkinson-Singleton (21) says after observing approximately 38,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century exhibited over the 72,735 square metre Louvre Museum, she can’t really see the appeal or relevance.

“I can’t really see how this place has 7.3 million visitors a year” she says.

“Like, I get it… Majority of people don’t know what good art is. I just think it’s a bit overrated”

Charlotte, who lives between an eight person sharehouse and her parent’s Victorian 18-bedder in Toorak says this is why the Melbourne art scene needs more funding.

“Like, how does this stuff get so much praise and I’m here filling out forms for grants just so I can finished my eighteen video of a genderless human form laying a cube-shaped egg”

“It’s a pretty basic concept, but it shits all over this stuff”

“Don’t get me started on the lack of intersectionality and gender equality in the earliest manifestation of the general European Renaissance”

“Like, I know it was a period of great cultural change and achievement between the 14th century and 17th century, but I just think these walls reek of white male privilege”

“Just sit there and look pretty, Mona Lisa”

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