Hammer Museum’s New $100,000 Mohn Award To Painter Meleko Mokgosi

The votes are in: Meleko Mokgosi, a 30-year-old painter who was born and raised in Botswana and is now based in Los Angeles, has become the first recipient of the Hammer Museum’s Mohn Award,” whose winner is “[c]hosen through an unusual combination of jury selection and popular vote.”