Lauren Halsey Fuses Ancient Egypt With South Central in a Monumental New Installation

Ancient Egypt, Los Angeles or New York City? Lauren Halsey has conflated the three in a monumental new installation on the garden rooftop of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Entitled the eastside of south central los angeles hieroglyph prototype architecture (I), the temple-sized artwork was made using 750 glass-fiber-reinforced concrete tiles that size as high as 22-feet. At the core of the installation, as with much of her oeuvre, is a focus on the culture and community of South Central, Los Ang...