The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art says it will maintain its Geffen contemporary space throughout the weekend as the National Guard continues to confront anti-ice protesters nearby.
Moca closed Geffen contemporary space this past Sunday and currently hosted the Olafur Eliasson show. Since then, the venue has been closed. The museum said Wednesday that the closure will remain in place.
“Given the evolving conditions in downtown Los Angeles and the contemporary of MOCA’s proximity to ongoing demonstrations and adding to military activity near the federal federal detention center in Los Angeles, we are making some adjustments to the operational hours to prioritize the safety and well-being of staff and visitors,” the museum wrote on Instagram.
The museum’s main street building will remain open, but regular late night hours scheduled on Thursday have been cancelled. The area around the museum is under a curfew that begins at 8 p.m., but the museum has not provided a precise reason for canceling late night time in its statement.
On the weekend, Moca got publicity Police State The arrest occurred outside the museum. To perform, Tolokonnikova transformed part of Geffen’s contemporary people into a space similar to prison cells, with artworks of Russians, Belarusians and Americans who were previously incarcerated. Later, she joined the protest outside the museum walls.
The museum said Torokonikova’s continued performance is expected to last until Saturday, but the rest will be postponed. The artist commented on Moca’s Instagram post, writing: “See you on the street this Saturday”, followed by chain emojis, police car emojis and fire emojis. She also wrote: “Immigration makes America great.”
The protests began last Friday as ICE searched Los Angeles locations and they claimed that people they claimed had no records entered the United States. The next day, Trump ordered the deployment of the National Guard to quell the protests and protect immigration agents, which Governor Gavin Newsom called “illegal” in a lawsuit against the president. According to Mayor Karen Bass, there were many arrests in the protests and more than 200 people were detained last night for breaching the curfew.
Some protesters have damaged certain locations, including the MOCA’s exterior walls. A museum spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment for vandalism earlier this week.
Although Moca itself was not protested, it occupies an important position in the demonstrations. Barbara Kruger’s 1990 mural questionThis is a work commissioned by the museum and permanently exhibited near Gaifen Contemporary, which has appeared in many protest photos, so much so that Los Angeles Times A post about the significance of the work was published in this week’s sense.
question Text reading: “Who surpasses the law? Who is bought and sold? Who is free to choose? Who is whose time? Who follows the order? Who pays the longest time? Who has the greatest voice prayer? Who dies in the first place? Who laughs?”
There Los Angeles Times “This provocation gives Trump what he wants: the moment he can declare martial law. It seems like this is not working yet,” Kruger said of the protests.
