Just over a year ago, Robert Elmes made waves when he announced that the beloved Brooklyn cultural center he’d founded 20 years prior, Galapagos Art Space, would be closing up shop in New York and moving to Detroit. “Simply put, New York City has become too expensive to continue incubating young artists,” he wrote at the time. “The white-hot real estate market burning through affordable cultural habit is no longer a crisis, it’s a conclusion.”
Galapagos Art Space Founder Attempts to Flip Detroit Building for $6.25 Million



