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Join us for a special conversation with the curator of MONUMENTS, presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and The Brick.
MONUMENTS: Hamza Walker in conversation with Mechtild Widrich
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
SAIC Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Ave.
6:00–7:30 p.m.
The exhibition MONUMENTS, presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and The Brick, finds decommissioned confederate monuments—many formerly displayed in public spaces across the United States—revised, reassembled, and adjusted by leading artists and by the public. By placing these contested and reframed objects in a museum adjacent to other contemporary works of art, the exhibition invites reflection on how historical monuments have furthered dangerous ideologies in the public imagination and how art may rectify this situation by providing alternative images of public memory.
Join us for a special conversation with the exhibition’s curator, who will share insights into the project’s origins, the process of bringing these monuments into a museum setting, the artists involved, and questions the exhibition raises about commemoration, history, and public consciousness.