Removed from city-owned locations eight years ago this month, Baltimore’s Confederate monuments will return to public view when a highly-anticipated museum exhibit opens in Los Angeles this fall.
‘MONUMENTS’ is the title of the exhibit, which will open on Oct. 23 and run until April 12, 2026, in TheGeffen Contemporary at MOCA, part of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
The exhibit, eight years in the making, is co-organized and co-presented by MOCA and The Brick, a non-profit visual art space formerly known as LAXART.
According to the organizers, the exhibit will present more than a dozen Confederate monuments from around the U.S. that have been removed from public view and are on loan from cities, museums and other owners. While some are unmarred, others have been splatte