Top artists sign on for Destination Crenshaw, a 1.3-mile monument to Black L.A.

When the $100-million Destination Crenshaw opens as L.A.'s new art corridor in fall 2022, it will feature a towering sculpture by Kehinde Wiley — the latest work in the artist’s “Rumors of War” series, a response to Confederate statues still standing despite the national reckoning on race.

Just as Wiley’s bronze figure of a Black man heroically posed atop a horse rises outside the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the new piece for Los Angeles will feature a Black woman on horseback, riding off into battle. Both works address race, power and historical inequities in cultural monuments, but the L.A. work broadens the lens, the artist said in an interview.

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