The Headlines ROUND TWO. A sculpture at the new David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is once again igniting controversy. Tlali (2026), a large stone work by Pedro Reyes, is similar to another piece by the artist from a 2021 project to replace a Christopher Columbus statue in Mexico City that ended up being canceled. In that instance, Reyes’s sculpture depicting an Indigenous woman was rejected because the artist is himself not Indigenous. A similar controversy is now facing LACMA. In an April 23 letter signed by nearly 80 people that was published by the site Cubo Blanco, LACMA is accused of a lack of “memory” for prominently displaying Tlali. A LACMA spokesperson told the Art Newspaper that the new work is “entirely different in purpose and meaning” from the 2021 work for Mexico City, thanks to “a new location, context, and opportunity for discussion.” Michael Govan, the museum’s director, also suggested the new sculpture may not be a female figure at all. “Poignant, androgynous, fragmentary, and mask-like, the work echoes ancient American fragments in our collection, particularly avian and jaguar motifs characterizing …