Lt. Dan, I can appreciate your cynicism.
Usually, when someone self-indulgently paints an abandoned building, their work is derided as graffiti. I guess if you are from New York or San Francisco and backed by serious dollars, then you can call yourself an artist when you paint on an abandoned building.
Couldn't that money have been used in a better way? The sites on which those houses sit will remain brown fields for some time to come. With the time, energy and money expended on this project, how many homes in that neighborhood could have been rehabbed? Though I'm glad those artists enjoyed a nice little vacation in Detroit painting on our blank canvas of a city to the tune of $180,000, I would have been more edified to see that money given to Detroiters to build or maintain a useful structure.
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