In this week’s Art Dirt podcast, Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson discuss celebrities doing performance art, and the issue of artists gentrifying poor neighborhoods. Also discussed: killing animals for food + favorite music videos from the 80s!
Art Dirt 5: Celebrities Doing Performance Art + Artists and Gentrification
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If we want to reverse gentrification in Montrose and the Third Ward, tear down the Menil and Project Row Houses.
I like this music video (not ’80s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spzGGnS0zt0
Re- gentrification, see, e.g., http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/david-jensen-the-west-dallas-warehouse-guy-gets-screwed-by-city-hall-7490469 , recounting how, at the behest of a developer, the City of Dallas used a bogus excuse to force an artist in W. Dallas to sell the warehouse he’d owned for many years at a below-market price. Artists and others without a lot of political or financial clout can either pay attention and act collectively, or we can let TPTB pick us off one segment at a time.