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Fallen Confederate Statues Take Center Stage in the Year’s Boldest Show

倒下的南方邦联雕像成为今年最引人注目的焦点

Kara Walker’s sculpture “Unmanned Drone,” created from rearranged parts of a decommissioned equestrian statue of the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, is the centerpiece of “Monuments,” opening Oct. 23 in Los Angeles.

Kara Walker’s sculpture “Unmanned Drone,” created from rearranged parts of a decommissioned equestrian statue of the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, is the centerpiece of “Monuments,” opening Oct. 23 in Los Angeles.

2025-10-20  1900  晦涩
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It’s titled “Unmanned Drone.” Walker completed it in 2023, though its constituent parts are much older: They belonged to a monumental equestrian statue of the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, which stood for a century in Charlottesville, Va. After the “Unite the Right” rally of 2017, which began with neo-Nazis marching with torches and ended with a woman’s death, the City Council voted to bring the statue down. There were hearings. There were lawsuits. Walker got her hands on it almost five years later.

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