The Un-Private Collection: Catherine Opie + Christopher Hawthorne + Carolina A. Miranda
Date: Thursday, January 20th
Time: 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Location: Live streamed on Youtube
Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWnEBKVAC-qqUVE-DlTMFEA
Description:
The Broad presents an Un-Private Collection conversation with artist Catherine Opie and Los Angeles Chief Design Officer Christopher Hawthorne, moderated by urban design columnist for the Los Angeles Times Carolina A. Miranda.
The conversation will explore Opie’s practice of representing contemporary built landscapes and often overlooked communities and its resonances with the work of the City of Los Angeles’s Civic Memory Working Group which Hawthorne helped to convene and was established to rethink how Los Angeles commemorates significant events. Opie’s monument/monumental (2020) is a suite of seven photographs recently acquired by the museum that were taken during a road trip from Los Angeles to Richmond, Virginia, where Black Lives Matter demonstrators had reclaimed a Confederate statue of Robert E. Lee as a site of protest for racial justice. The work is featured in Since Unveiling: Selected Acquisitions of a Decade, on view through April 3, 2022.
The event will be livestreamed on YouTube.
