Just Like Taco Trucks, Art Takes to the Road

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By ALYSON KRUEGER

The Rodi Gallery, parked in Astoria Park in Queens.

NEW YORK---Around the United States, art is on the roll. Inspired by the success of food trucks, gallery owners like the Grahams, who are based in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., have been taking their show on the road. For the last year, they have traveled to populated spots like the meatpacking district of Manhattan, the Peekskill train station and Astoria Park in Queens.  In interviews, mobile owners say they are trying to avoid the confines — and politics — of the gallery system; to help people think about art in different ways; or to reach more communities, especially those with young and old people who tend not to visit art districts. But art critics, scholars and gallery owners ask: Is it possible to become a force within the art world without commercial representation? [link]