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Hammer Museum awards its Crowdsourced Art Prize to Meleko Mokgosi.
It will provide Mr. Mokgosi, 30, with $100,000 over two years,and will include the publication of a monograph about his work,which often deals with contemporary political and social issues in Africa.A jury of curators selected him and four other finalists from among the 60 artists whose work is included in the exhibition “Made in L.A. 2012,” a new biennial that opened in June at the Hammer. Public voting on the award began June 28 and ended Sunday.