Intuit Dome Unveils $11 Million Public Art Collection

Art in sports venues is nothing new. There are dozens of parks around the country with heroic, larger-than-life sculptures of sports stars from Hank Aaron in Atlanta to Kobe Bryant at downtown’s Crypto.com Arena. Contemporary fine art is a little harder to find, but the new multbillion-dollar Intuit Dome in Inglewood hopes to be a center of it.

The 18,000-seat arena will open next month with works by seven artists ranging from a mixed media installation made of colorful basketball backboards resembling the sails of a tall ship to porcelain enamel to neon art, and even an AI “data sculpture” as big as a brontosaurus.

“The whole goal at Intuit Dome is community, says Clippers spokesperson Quinn Corrigan. “We want it to be more than a basketball game. [Owner] Steve [Ballmer] loves basketball and wants fans in seats watching the game, but we want them to experience stuff off the court and make it an immersive experience.”

Ruth Berson, formerly of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, curated the $11 million collection, which includes works by Refik Anadol, Charles Gaines, Kyungmi Shin, Jennifer Steinkamp and Southern California natives Glenn Kaino, Patrick Martinez and Michael Massenburg.

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“We designed Intuit Dome to be a place that brings people together,” Gillian Zucker, CEO of the Clippers’ parent company Halo Sports & Entertainment, said in a statement. “When it came to our public art, we wanted to deliver a collection that is as compelling to people well-versed in art as it is to a novice viewer.

The Intuit Dome officially opens with a Bruno Mars concert on Aug. 15.

Read more about the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles magazine’s July cover story .