Brothel become art studios
The red light continues to shine in a small room at one of Amsterdam's inner city streets, but left the bed, and some artists work in the creative installations in which prostitutes to talk with customers.
As part of efforts to revitalize the center and extended the red light district, the city of Amsterdam in collaboration with Association of Housing has acquired a number of former public house, and they rented rooms artists' studios.
Cleaning
Some clients are still catching up with the changes.
"Is Patricia here?" The old man asked in Spanish, after knocking at the window of a newly renovated studio.
"They do not know about the prostitutes have disappeared," says Niels Vis Dutch artist after the break.
Combating organized crime and clean up the city center of Amsterdam plan authorities, the number of brothels and selling marijuana cafes, which are an important incentive for tourists to the city, and reduced to limit prostitution to certain areas.
Said last week, the government plans further measures to combat forced prostitution and human trafficking, such as a registration requirement for sex workers and stricter rules for the approval of the brothels, escort agencies and massage parlors.
Better than fashion
However, despite the union to be less enthusiastic about a prostitute, a project that appears in the designer clothes and bags in the old windows, a spokesman for the Union said that prostitutes and artists used side by side.
"Prostitutes and artists can live together, as it was in Paris in the 19th century," said Metje Blaak, a spokesman for the Union of Rhode Draad, although they added that they do not want to see artists taking the whole neighborhood.
Prostitutes and their experience is often inspired artists, including the 19 century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris prostitutes used as models for his posters and paintings.
In mid-1970 the Serbian artist Marina Abramovic reels with a prostitute in Amsterdam in a few hours and have shared their expertise and experiences of prostitutes for an exhibition of photographs.
Red Artists-in-residence (Air Red) project offers Dutch and foreign artists with a space in projects to study the role of art in the urban areas to work with the conversion.
These projects include turning a former prostitute in a room in your public library, and shows photographs of modern architecture in another window, as well as the creation of posters and buttons with provocative statements like "I will rise."
Red Air is planning a final show in the second half of this year and is part of the concept of the city Redlight - A program to diversify the area, which was also in fashion and jewelry design project depends.
As part of efforts to revitalize the center and extended the red light district, the city of Amsterdam in collaboration with Association of Housing has acquired a number of former public house, and they rented rooms artists' studios.
Cleaning
Some clients are still catching up with the changes.
"Is Patricia here?" The old man asked in Spanish, after knocking at the window of a newly renovated studio.
"They do not know about the prostitutes have disappeared," says Niels Vis Dutch artist after the break.
Combating organized crime and clean up the city center of Amsterdam plan authorities, the number of brothels and selling marijuana cafes, which are an important incentive for tourists to the city, and reduced to limit prostitution to certain areas.
Said last week, the government plans further measures to combat forced prostitution and human trafficking, such as a registration requirement for sex workers and stricter rules for the approval of the brothels, escort agencies and massage parlors.
Better than fashion
However, despite the union to be less enthusiastic about a prostitute, a project that appears in the designer clothes and bags in the old windows, a spokesman for the Union said that prostitutes and artists used side by side.
"Prostitutes and artists can live together, as it was in Paris in the 19th century," said Metje Blaak, a spokesman for the Union of Rhode Draad, although they added that they do not want to see artists taking the whole neighborhood.
Prostitutes and their experience is often inspired artists, including the 19 century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris prostitutes used as models for his posters and paintings.
In mid-1970 the Serbian artist Marina Abramovic reels with a prostitute in Amsterdam in a few hours and have shared their expertise and experiences of prostitutes for an exhibition of photographs.
Red Artists-in-residence (Air Red) project offers Dutch and foreign artists with a space in projects to study the role of art in the urban areas to work with the conversion.
These projects include turning a former prostitute in a room in your public library, and shows photographs of modern architecture in another window, as well as the creation of posters and buttons with provocative statements like "I will rise."
Red Air is planning a final show in the second half of this year and is part of the concept of the city Redlight - A program to diversify the area, which was also in fashion and jewelry design project depends.
