#confederate-monuments

#confederate-monuments

If there's a controversial statue commemorating a dead white supremacist out there, there's a good chance the president has gone to bat for it. Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments, Trump tweeted in 2017, in response to a push to remove Confederate monuments. You can't change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish! Trump added.

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.