"I momentarily stepped away, maybe eight feet," from his two bags – a large, flat artist's portfolio and a backpack full of his Sharpie markers – in the terminal's main concourse near the big clock to get a better vantage point, and began sketching.
Graffiti-splashed Liebigstrasse 14 had ten flats, artists' studios, two washing-machines and 25 tenants who found room in Berlin for a way of life centred on sharing rather than striving.
"It's flat, and artists like a horizon, don't they?" But years of being laughed at by outsiders – famously, the book Crap Towns once called it Britain's "worst place to live" – has left its mark.
Grandiose, richly decorated apartment blocks were built lining wide, Haussmannesque boulevards; enormous resources were diverted into skyscraping luxury hotels, or grace-and-favour flats for artists and bureaucrats.
When iconic venues continually close to make way for unaffordable flats, emerging artists and creatives lose the ability to develop their craft because they only work to survive.
He was referring to his basilica's future in changing neighborhoods, including NoLIta, Little Italy and SoHo, where immigrants once crowded into cold-water flats and artists found refuge in spacious lofts.
Geddes established an informal informal college of tenement flats for artists at Ramsay Garden on Castle Hill in Edinburgh in the 1890s.
Here and there throughout the exhibition videos on little flat screens show artists demonstrating watercolor techniques used in nearby paintings.
The curators visit LatinArte's galleries and are paid a flat fee per artist (they are required to choose between five and ten of the artist's best works to post on the site).
What ought to be shocking — squeezing past two naked bodies, say — falls flat, without the artist's ferocious charisma to animate the event.
