Don’t Tear It Down. Tear It Apart

Architect Magazine: What do we remember and how? Those are the key questions to which two exhibitions of signal importance and achievement on view in Los Angeles right now provide very concrete answers. Presented at the Geffen Contemporary site of Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) (through May 3) and at the independent art space The Brick (through May 7), Monuments focuses on how we remember the struggle to liberate black people in this country, a still ongoing conflict in which it has been until recently only the supposed losers of Civil War have erected physical reminders.