If installations work for galleries, why not dance troupes?
In tandem with the opening the museum invited Ms. Mehretu, 36, to address Detroit in some way by creating work for galleries adjacent to the Rivera frescoes.
In recent years even his work for galleries has become overtly political, blurring the boundary between art and activism – at a recent show in Munich, his Remembering installation comprised 9,000 children's backpacks, in reference to the death toll of pupils in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
(For example, capitalizing on the surging number of museums, the popularity of large-scale installation art and the hunger for young artists to build a roster filled with cutting-edge work unsuited for gallery spaces).
"As artists we need to stop making work only for gallery or museum walls, or the coffee tables of collectors.
Artists spend hours making works for galleries that show them to small groups of people.
Recycling found objects, Montoya creates ornate works for galleries and brands, as well as various queer performers.
Instead, she was scooped up by Charles Saatchi, who bought her Glasgow School of Art degree collection and commissioned her to make work for his gallery for the next two years.
His reaction to the end of the war was to explode into his Vache period, when his images became almost comic in their extremes It didn't work for the gallery owners or for the audience, and Magritte soon returned to a more sober style, but also a more ethereal one.
Having moved off the street and onto the museum walls, he can also be seen as a pioneer of the now-accepted trend of street artists producing work for a gallery context.
