A regular dispatch of essays, criticism, and (pop) cultural ephemera, compiled and mixed by Norman Brannon.

2.5.2010

As a commentary on the national housing and foreclosure crisis, Gregory Holm and Matthew Radune took one of Detroit’s 20,000 abandoned houses and froze it. It makes for good art, sure. But there’s also a humanitarian slant: ”The artists picked the house, which had been slated for demolition, from the state’s land bank,” according to the New York Times. “In return, they agreed to pay the back taxes on another foreclosed house so that a Detroit woman could move in.”

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