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An inside look at events and happenings in the contemporary art world.

Top row: Tyna Adebowale, Abbesi Akhamie and Delali Ayivor. Bottom row: Mbali Dhlamini, Abdi Farah and Moses Hamborg. Courtesy Black Rock Senegal.

Kehinde Wiley Residency Program
Esteemed artist Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal artist residency program has announced the 2021 artists who will have the opportunity to travel to the West African city of Dakar, Senegal. Hailing from across the world the 16 participants will receive room and board, individual studio space and a stipend, spending several weeks in Wiley’s studio along the volcanic rock-lined shore by which the residency program gets its name. This year’s artists-in-residence are Tyna Adebowale, Abbesi Akhamie, Delali Ayivor, Hilary Balu, Mbali Dhlamini, Abdi Farah, Moses Hamborg, Arinze Ifeakandu, Cristiano Mangovo, Esmaa Mohamoud, Stephanie J. Woods, Katherina Olschbaur, Irene Antonia Diane Reece, Curtis Talwst Santiago and Darryl DeAngelo Terrell.

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Helice Wen, On the Nature of Daydreaming No. 3, acrylic, oil and metallic foil on wood panel, 24 x 18"

Diverse Works
On view through April 3, Corey Helford Gallery in downtown Los Angeles presents a seven-artist exhibition, each of whom will be presenting a new series of works. The artists, working in a wide range of genres from figurative to abstraction to conceptual sculpture, include Andy Adamson, Helice Wen, kozyndan, Rodolfo Loaiza, Travis Lampe, Yang Cao and Zoé Byland. The opening of the show will be celebrated with a livestream event on Instagram at @coreyhelfordgallery.

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The LA Art Show is one of the many Los Angeles-based arts organizations and events that will benefit from the multimillion dollar gift.

LA Arts Recovery Fund
Los Angeles County receives assistance from the LA Arts Recovery Fund, a $38.5 million fund to assist arts organizations impacted by the pandemic. The immensely important fund comes together as a result of collaboration between Los Angeles-based and national philanthropic organizations, several of which include the J. Paul Getty Trust, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Vladimir and Araxia Buckhantz Foundation, Robert Lovelace and Alicia Miñana, and many others.

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Lorraine O’Grady, Rivers, First Draft: The Woman in White eats coconut and looks away from the action, 1982/2015, digital chromogenic print from Kodachrome 35mm slides in 48 parts, 16 x 20". Edition of 8 + 2 AP. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York. © Lorraine O’Grady / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Lorraine O’Grady Retrospective
The Brooklyn Museum in New York hosts the first-ever retrospective for one of the most important contemporary artists today working in conceptual, feminist and performance art—Lorraine O’Grady. Within her work, O’Grady addresses themes of cultural interconnection and challenges ideas of the fixed position of self. The exhibition, Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And, features 12 major projects O’Grady has produced over her four-decade career, as well as the debut of a highly anticipated new installation. It will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum through July 18. —