Since then, Kadlubek has proved a natural leader, steering Meow Wolf from the brink of extinction to multimillion-dollar rounds of fundraising. “I can honestly say I’ve not stolen a thing in six years.” “After that, I was like, ‘I’m done with this,’ ” Kadlubek tells Rolling Stone.
He testified in court the charges against Kadlubek were dropped. It was too late for the sympathetic cop to let him off, but Kadlubek claims the officer vowed to get him out as fast as he could. Kadlubek pleaded with him to look the other way - he was teaching a class the following morning and would miss it if he was in jail. “Nobody had money.”Ī Santa Fe police officer caught him and called it in. “That was the first time that I had really tried to steal anything as a way of making money,” he says.
Then it’s on to Denver, where it’ll hatch a $60 million, 90,000-square-foot immersive art park in 2020 followed by a permanent exhibit in Washington, D.C. That starts in the coming months, as Meow Wolf readies its first expansion: an “experience shopping mall” set in a trippy art bazaar in Las Vegas called Area 15, poised to open next year. In two years, the House has transformed Meow Wolf from a cadre of broke creatives into a 400-employee-strong organization with a fundraising clip on par with tech startups - and a shot at upending the art and entertainment industries as we know them. Telaportative fridges, a Flintstones-style mastodon skeleton marimba, impromptu trapeze shows - it’s all commonplace in the House of Eternal Return, a 20,000-square-foot, wormhole-riddled art playhouse from Meow Wolf, the scrappy Santa Fe, New Mexico, art-collective-turned-conglomerate that’s poised to plunge the country into the multiverse, one WTF moment at a time. “Are you coming to The Gathering?” she smiles.
As the door begins to creak shut, a young woman in a polka-dot skirt skips up to catch it. A family walks up to it and is swallowed whole by its comforting glow. A roomful of strangers are milling around the kitchen of an austere Victorian home when the first portal opens.
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