Museum hosts real estate summit, faces live blowback
Members of the Artist Studio Affordability Project (ASAP) capped a day of protest in front of the Brooklyn Museum Tuesday with a satirical installation of couches, chairs and other indoor furniture to highlight the consequences of neighborhood gentrification. The demonstration aimed to call out the fact that rent prices are out of reach for the artists who initiate the transformation of neglected areas from high crime warrens to bohemian communities highly prized by developers.