{"id":50256,"date":"2025-07-09T02:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/50256\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T02:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:19:09","slug":"lorna-simpsons-former-home-and-art-studio-hits-the-market-for-6-5-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/50256\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorna Simpson’s Former Home and Art Studio Hits the Market for $6.5 M."},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn a city known for artists repurposing disused spaces into studios, those wishing to glimpse Lorna Simpson<\/a>\u2018s former Brooklyn\u2013based home studio now have the chance to see it.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe four-story, 22-foot-wide building located at 208 Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn\u2019s Fort Greene neighborhood was designed in 2006 by British architect David Adjaye\u00a0for Simpson and her now ex-husband, the photographer James Casebere.<\/p>\n

\n\tPitch Black<\/a>, as the architect dubbed it, boasts a sleek design with the front featuring black polypropylene panels and the back made almost entirely of glass windows that lead out to more than 800-square-feet of garden space. <\/p>\n

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\n\tInside, the home features three bedrooms and two-and-a-half baths that previously served as a bedroom and separate studio spaces for the artists across roughly 3,300-square-feet.<\/p>\n

\n\tThough Simpson relocated a few years ago to a larger commercial space close by, the building has still served as archival and storage space, as well as a spot for hosting and entertaining guests.<\/p>\n

\n\tSimpson opted to create the space when she couldn\u2019t find one that suited her. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI could not find something that I liked that felt spacious and that did not feel like a tight traditional townhouse domestic space with limited free-wall space,\u201d Simpson told the New York Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe outdoor space is tranquil day or night,\u201d Simpson added, explaining that the \u201cnatural light throughout the building is extraordinary. I could work until the daylight fades.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the cost of an artist\u2019s dream might be priceless, the townhouse is currently on the market with the Corcoran Group<\/a> for a whopping $6.5 million, with annual property taxes coming in at just above $12,000.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe property is situated among Fort Greene Park and other notable art locales like the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and Pratt Institute.<\/p>\n

\n\tSimpson is known for her alluring and elusive surfaces that form images of Black women in an exploration of gender, race, and culture. She rose to prominence during the 1980s and \u201990s with her photography on the same subjects. Her work is currently on view in the exhibition \u201cSource Notes\u201d at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York<\/a> through November 2.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is hardly the first notable artist\u2019s studio to hit the market within recent years. Andy Warhol<\/a>\u2018s former New York studio and apartment,\u00a0where\u00a0Jean-Michel Basquiat<\/a>\u00a0lived and worked from 1983 until his death in 1988, was up for grabs in late 2022 before it was taken over by Atelier Jolie<\/a> in 2023. In 2021, the Gramercy Park home and studio of\u00a0Anselm Kiefer,\u00a0and subsequently\u00a0Julian Schnabel, also appeared on the market for $10 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a city known for artists repurposing disused spaces into studios, those wishing to glimpse Lorna Simpson\u2018s former…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,37982,4329,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-50256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-lorna-simpson","13":"tag-real-estate","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114820885077926315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}