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What can a new exhibit tell us about the foreclosure crisis?

Posted by smeddum on August 3, 2010

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A still from Emily Kennerk’s 22-hour video installation, which shows an image of every home foreclosed in 2009 for one second.

By Kristen Peterson (contact)

Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010

LasVagasSun

Once a boomtown, Las Vegas surged with prospectors seeking riches by buying land and selling homes — and the American dream — at a breakneck pace. Now many of those large stucco shells sit vacant, in disrepair, in quiet suburban neighborhoods dotted with mucky pools. Read the rest of this entry »

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