Over the weekend, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture announced that it wouldn't be buying the two murals in the lobby of the Paul Williams-designed Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company building in Adams-Normandie. The LA Conservancy had objected to the $750,000 sale because the Smithsonian would've removed the Charles Alston and Hale Woodruff murals and taken them to Washington. At a hearing today, it was decided that Golden State's archive will go to UCLA, but the fate of the murals is still up in the air. [LAT/NYT/KPCC]
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