Jackson to LA: art and politics in the re- and de-contextualize of confederate monuments

LAXART, a LA-based art non-profit, plans to hand over the Jackson statue to two of the country's most influential African-American artists.

Charlottesville City Council appears set to accept a $50,000 offer from LAXART, a LA-based non-profit visual arts organization, for the Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson statue during business at its Monday, December 20 meeting. Indeed, there have been news reports in circulation saying it’s already a done deal. LAXART plans to curate an exhibition called MONUMENTS in the fall of 2023, hosted by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art at the Geffen Gallery in LA. The offer, which was originally $100,000 for both the Jackson and Lee statues [note: the offer made a point of emphasizing that the money was "expressly" for removal cost, and reimbursement, and that "paying for such objects is tantamount to assigning them value, which we do not believe they have."], didn’t get a lot of attention in the local media, and when it did there wasn’t much detail, focused as they were on the Jefferson School's proposed "Swords in Ploughshares" project [you can donate to the project here], a local eff…