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I'm currently trying to get an artist friend of mine to move to Detroit from NYC. He's a working artist who makes OK money off his shows and sales. OK money sucks balls in NYC, but would be perfectly suited to Detroit. There's no reason a working artist, who has to travel all over anyway, can't live where ever they want. My goal is to convince him that it would be awesome to buy an abandoned building here in the city to fix up and turn into a loft and studio. There are literally dozens of buildings right downtown that are abandoned that I bet we could get at a tax auction for $10-20k. That in itself would be an awesome art project.
You should show your friend Theaster Gates: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/magazine/chicagos-opportun...
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