DEAL IN BROOKLYN SUPREME COURT FOR OUTSIDER-ART HOUSE

Artist Arthur Wood, seventy-five, and his wife, Cynthia, sixty-nine, were evicted from their Brooklyn home–cum–outsider-art project, dubbed the Broken Angel, on October 17. A rooftop fire had led city inspectors to find the house in violation of building codes. Now Robin Pogrebin reports for the New York Times that yesterday, in a conference with the Brooklyn Supreme Court, the Woods agreed to submit engineering plans by next Wednesday to dismantle the building’s forty-foot rooftop structure, the main violation. The Woods have also entered into a tentative agreement to share ownership with a local developer, Shahn Andersen, who would turn most of the building into condominiums. The Broken Angel would include some form of community space, along with living and studio space for the Woods. For more information, see Gothamist or these photos from the Woods’ son.