Breathtaking, unsettling, healing a new exhibit by Black US artists transforms Confederate monuments
3 months in The guardian
The sweeping exhibition Monuments opens in Los Angeles on 23 October and is on view through MayIn 2021, the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, finally removed the Confederate statues that had inspired a series of violent and eventually deadly white supremacist rallies in 2017.The statue of Robert E Lee, which had been surrounded by white men with torches in a famous far-right propaganda image, was melted down. But the statue of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, which stood at the heart of a 2017 Ku Klux Klan rally, was given to a California-based arts non-profit, which pledged to use it for “transformation, not further veneration”. Continue reading...
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