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Artists Reclaim Amsterdam’s Red Light District

Artists Reclaim Amsterdam’s Red Light District

By Dan Gould on April 30, 2009

In a twist on the age-old practice of artists reclaiming unused and ex-industrial spaces to work in, the Red A.i.R. project is converting former brothels into studios. All this year, Artists-In-Residency In The Redlight are exploring the possibilities of transitory occupations of space within the slowly gentrifying red light district of Amsterdam.

Red Light Art Amsterdam

[via Luxist]

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