L.A. Story

LOS ANGELES occupies a NEAR-MYTHOLOGICAL PLACE in the psyche of the AMERICAN ART WORLD. But for some of the city’s most compelling ARTISTS and CULTURE SHIFTERS, it represents a different kind of CREATIVE TRADITION—one that’s shaped it from the GROUND UP.

Story by STEPHEN MOOALLEM

LAUREN HALSEY ARTIST Halsey, whose collages, sculptures, and installations draw upon elements of Afrofuturism, pharaonic architecture, and the history and culture of South Central, is preparing for upcoming shows in 2024 at both Gagosian’s Paris outpost and London’s Serpentine Galleries. “It’s not enough to just REPRESENT.… I have to equally commit to the DEVELOPMENT, TRANSCENDENCE, and GROWTH of PEOPLE here.” Even before Lauren Halsey’s artwork was installed this past spring on the rooftop of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, she knew it would one day wind up back in Los Angeles. The piece, a sculptural work titled the eastside of south central los angeles hieroglyph prototype architecture (I), is a 22-foot-high, open-air structure modeled on aspects of the Egyptian Temple of Dendur on view in the museum’s galleries and commissioned as part of…

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