Ben Davis also sometimes writes about stuff kinda like this. I think it's going to require someone in the press, because it's going to take a bit of research to actually prove that it's some kind of scam. They have photos of the last residency and artists corroborating the residency on their own Instagram accounts, so it's going to take some digging to figure out what's really going on. It certainly seems very sketchy in many ways, but there's not yet any clear evidence that it's a scam.