Kleenex art
n.— «The historian Antony Beevor, another signatory, alongside the broadcaster Sir Patrick Moore, added: “Meercats would be fine in the Tate, but I’m not sure how suitable they would be at a memorial site. “It depends to what degree you think gimmick art, which has sometimes been referred to as “Kleenex art,” is going to endure.”» —“Boris and Benn form an unlikely plinth alliance” by Arifa Akbar Independent (United Kingdom) Mar. 8, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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