Richmond Confederate statues removed in 2020 head to LA

Driving the news: The Valentine announced Monday that the Confederate States president's statue, displayed at the Richmond museum for over three years, is headed to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art on Aug. 17.

• Then on Tuesday, the Black History Museum in Jackson Ward said it's also loaning the LA exhibit Confederate-era monuments that the city took down in 2020.
• These include the "Vindicatrix" sculpture known as "Miss Confederacy" that sat atop the Davis monument, the Matthew Fontaine Maury statue and globe, and granite slabs from different Confederate monument bases.
• The pieces will be "recontextualized" in the exhibit to "foster critical dialogue about their historical significance and the ideologies they represent," the museum said in a news release.

Zoom out: The exhibit, which runs from October to April, starts months after the Trump administration ordered a federal review of the statues toppled in the wake of George Floyd's murder.

• The city owns the land where the Confederate monuments in Richmond, the former capital of the Confederacy, once stood.

• And most of the taken-down monuments remain in the city's wastewater treatment plant.

What's next: The Valentine is closing its survey about people's feelings regarding the monuments' removal, and where they should be moved, on Aug. 18. Results will be shared by the end of October.

Go deeper:

• Confederate statues are gone, but few see progress since 2020
• Trump order could return toppled Confederate monuments, but not likely in Richmond