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The Gentrification Art Show That Inspires ‘Intentional Awkwardness’

Posted on May 19, 2016March 26, 2021 by Kavitha Surana

In New York dingy, overpriced studio apartments manage to command bidding wars, while longtime city-dwellers with sweet rent-regulated deals have come to expect landlord harassment. Meanwhile, archaic affordable-housing…

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Artists Want to Stay Put By Buying a Building Together. This Is Their Blueprint

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Elizabeth Flock

William Powhida, a New York-based artist best known for his 2011 stunt of putting on a “VIP Douchebag”-inspired performance art show at the gallery Marlborough…

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Bushwick Artists: Maybe We Should All Just Buy a Building Together?

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Alexandra Glorioso

Artists: Should we all buy a building?

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