Pop-up art galleries fill unused urban spaces

From Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:

From Brooklyn to Britain, even along Philadelphia’s South Street, retail developers and building owners are giving a break to artists during these trying times and opening up their spaces for the creation of ad-hoc art galleries. Providing discounted, short-term leases, low month-to-month rental agreements, and in some cases free rent, utilities or both, to artists for a month, six weeks or even longer to set up temporary art galleries has become an attractive alternative to urban blight and possible crime, while landlords wait for the next wave of paying tenants. The idea of these “pop-up galleries” as they have come to be known began in Britain, spread to New York, and just recently, landed in Pittsburgh.