Tyree Guyton’s Heidelberg Project? $100 houses? Matthew Barney’s “Ancient Evenings” project? Crazy artists taking over slums abandoned by corporate American waste and greed?
What do all the above words have in common? Detroit, i tell you. Where a house can be had for $100 these days (i'm still skeptical about that). Where the nations artists are flocking to make their way, make a statement, and live cheaply and in a new way.
I just read THIS op-ed piece in the NYT from a couple of weeks ago about it all. Seriously Steven, maybe we should buy a mountain house in a Detroit crack hood? Or, at least go for a visit and see what it's really like. You think there are entire streets covered with stuffed animals like this?
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OK..those house are just weird...
but weird in a charming, arty kinda way, don't you think? totally reminds me of Howard Finster, the southern artist that plastered everything with everything. Sort of like Victorian polychrome.
America is crazy I thought salvation mountain was as crazy as it got but this shows me diffrent. I want to see these thing but I live in the uk.
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