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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
6 months agoThe enormously complex job of moving Confederate statues to Los Angeles for Monuments show
The long-awaited exhibition , which opens this week in Los Angeles at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca) and the Brick, proves heavy in more than one way. It confronts themes of white supremacy and Black subjugation in America by creating dialogues between contemporary art and Confederate monuments that were dethroned and decommissioned during the racial reckonings of recent years. And the monuments themselves, though now in a museum setting instead of a park or public square, still have an unnegotiable, unmoveable sort of heft.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
6 months agoContemporary artists face off with decommissioned Confederate statues in Los Angeles
Decommissioned Confederate monuments are exhibited alongside contemporary artworks to confront and reinterpret their historical and cultural legacies.
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