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Pop Art: For Some Local Artists, the Bad Economy Is Good News
Pop Art: For Some Local Artists, the Bad Economy Is Good News
By Niki D'Andrea Thursday, June 24 2010
(Phoenix New Times)...continued from page 3 The pop-up gallery trend started in Los Angeles in the 1990s, but really took off in London last summer, when painter Simon Tarrant, who had never shown at a gallery, persuaded the owners of a vacant building on affluent Fulham Road in Chelsea to let him use the space temporarily.
...The success of London and New York's pop-up galleries inspired other cities, like Chicago, where the Chicago Loop Alliance launched a program called Pop-Up Art Loop last November. Under the initiative, owners of empty spaces allow artists to move in on short-term leases, often with a provision that they can kick them out with 10 days' notice. The "for rent" signs remain in the windows, and artists can be usurped by a full-paying tenant at any time. In the meantime, formerly unused spaces house places like the Wabash Gallery and the Chicago Photography Collective.
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