Galapagos now has a Galapagos Detroit website with more details.
http://www.galapagosdetroit.com/
Includes a hefty slap in the face as to how the NY real estate craziness is killing the arts...
Decades ago I contemplated moving the NYC to do my art there. Many Detroit artists of the old Cass Corridor art scene had done so mostly moving to Tribeca, then a still moderately-priced place [by NY standards not Detroit] and still on Manhattan.WHY IS GALAPAGOS MOVING TO DETROIT?
Simply put, New York City has become too expensive to continue incubating young artists. The white-hot real estate market burning through affordable cultural habit is no longer a crisis, it's a conclusion.
You can’t paint at night in your kitchen and hope to be a good artist. It doesn’t work that way.
The canaries in New York City's real estate gold mine and the basis population of its creative ecosystem - its young artists and thinkers - are no longer talking about the next show they hope to land. They’re talking about the next city they can land in once their current lease runs out.
What I found was what was described above - they were all scuffling with low-paying jobs to pay the rent on some fleabag accommodation that could they could be squeezed out of by some developer at any minute. I came back to the D where I lived [and later bought] in a sumptuous house for next to nothing and worked a good paying part time job and had plenty of time to paint.
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