'I like a place that feels haunted': a Brooklyn brownstone filled with stories and art
06-06-2020 12:00 via theguardian.com

'I like a place that feels haunted': a Brooklyn brownstone filled with stories and art

Chilean artist Maria Gracia Donoso employed a shaman to cleanse her home, then transformed it into a vibrant place for art loversBrooklyn brownstones have handsome bones, but are notorious for their lack of daylight. Some of their elongated rooms also have a shadowy history. “By American standards, a building like this, from the 19th century, is very old,” says Maria Gracia Donoso, an artist who grew up with six brothers in Chile during the dictatorship of the 1970s and 80s. “P
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