We Asked Claudia Rankine to Name One Artwork She Considers a “Revelation”

In March of this year, I flew to Los Angeles to see the literally groundbreaking exhibition “Monuments,” curated by Hamza Walker, Bennett Simpson, and Kara Walker and co-presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and the Brick. Because that show engaged many dialogues around the presence and removal of monuments, it had a generative impact on how I consider the role of monuments in our national lives. Once I returned to New York, I wondered what form alternative public sculpt