Lauren Halsey makes South Central Los Angeles monumental on the Met roof

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

Elaine Velie’s Hyperallergic report explored Lauren Halsey’s roof commission at the Metropolitan Museum. Egyptian architectural forms carried portraits of people close to the artist and inscriptions drawn from South Central Los Angeles. Built from hundreds of tiles, the installation connected Afrofuturist imagination with the preservation of a neighbourhood’s everyday language, asking whose culture museums make permanent while communities face the pressures of gentrification.

Summarised from Hyperallergic · Elaine Velie. AFROSCOPE Daily has not independently reported this story.