Art is Magic: A Conversation with Jeremy Deller and Hamza Walker

British artist Jeremy Deller and Los Angeles–based curator Hamza Walker (The Brick) come together for a conversation on monuments, memory, and the public imagination. Anchored in MONUMENTS, the current exhibition at The Brick and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles—co-curated by Walker—which reassesses Confederate monuments amid a recent wave of removals, and in Deller’s career-survey book Art is Magic, the program reflects on how histories are constructed, contested, and performed through sites, symbols, and collective experience. From ancient gathering places to newly imagined landmarks, the discussion considers how artists intervene in the stories that define civic life—and the role of art in rethinking historical narratives.