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"Condo Craze fills TO Galleries this Week"

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Anonymous Nicholas Brown said...

Not sure if you've mentioned this already, but the Danish and Nordic Pavillions exhibition "The Collectors," curated by Elmgreen and Dragset, is on a similar wavelength:
http://www.danish-nordic-pavilions.com/

Really, really well executed and (albeit cynical) was a high point in an otherwise tepid Venice Biennale.

July 22, 2009 at 12:58 AM

Blogger Leah Sandals said...

Hey Nick,

Thanks for noting that. I do feel like artists have been riffing on condo stuff for a while now, but it is interesting when so much of it converges.

I wish I had seen that pavilion -- it did sound pretty cool.

July 22, 2009 at 7:51 PM

Anonymous m.m. said...

note on the artscape lofts ... these are actually the end result of a long-term negotiation (read: fight) with the developers over community benefit undertaken by Active 18 ... Artscape is indeed undertaking the administration of the project, but it really is a result of community engagement ensuring that artists, in this case, don't lose everything in the process of gentrification.

July 24, 2009 at 12:04 AM

Blogger Leah Sandals said...

Hi MM -

I did some research on the Artscape dev't for a story a couple years back and I'm not trying to imply they're bad in trying to create affordable housing of any kind.

What I am suggesting is that they present a problem to those artists opposed to condo development in principle.

Also -- I should clarify! -- Borins and Marman actually created a *mall construction* like environment, which I took for a *condo construction* environment, in part because I live across from a condo construction site and I've come to associate all drywall and construction mess with condos. Apologies to the artists.

July 25, 2009 at 6:40 PM

Anonymous MM said...

Point taken re: resistence to condo dev't in principle. Personally, I'm not against it in principle. Only in application. In this particular case, West Side Lofts (or whatever their current name is for that particular project) stepped up to the plate and paid back some to the pre-existing community unlike other players in that particular sections of WQW.

I think an important thing I was trying to note, however, is that Artscape was not an instigator in this wrinkle, they are only an administrator.

July 27, 2009 at 1:10 PM

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