Artist Julie Mehretu has an installation that will debut at the re-opening of Detroit Institute of Arts later this month. She spoke with the
New York Times about the museum, Detroit and the Diego Rivera murals by which she was inspired.
Excerpt:
For the artist Julie Mehretu, who grew up largely in East Lansing,
Mich., the Detroit Institute of Arts and other vintage downtown
landmarks have the cast of magnificent relics.
"For me the
issues that come up with Detroit — as this Modernist city that is in
many ways abandoned or erased, all the changes it’s gone through and
the very different kinds of communities that have affected that — are
really interesting," she said in an interview at her studio in New
York.
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