Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Arena Launches Art Program, with Paul Pfeiffer As First Artist-in-Residence
The Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn is launching “Brooklyn Art Encounters,” a multi-year program expanding public art at the arena and introducing an artist-in-residence initiative led first by Paul Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer and artist Shaun Leonardo will run a year-long media workshop for justice-impacted youth and adults, supported by the Social Justice Fund, offering training in video production and storytelling and behind-the-scenes exposure to arena operations such as broadcasting, security, and concessions. Beginning in May, the arena will also start “Art on the Hour,” broadcasting 60-second digital artworks on the “Oculus” LED screen above the plaza. New works planned for the fall include Sarah Sze’s “Wave,” described as suspending over 250 animated projected images in a wave-like sculpture in the entry atrium, paintings by Rashid Johnson and Mark Bradford in the Flatbush Premium entrance, and Kambui Olujimi’s plaza installation “We Always Have Room for One More,” featuring seven bronze figures playing Skelly; the program will be advised by curator Andria Hickey and an advisory group including Thelma Golden, Michael Govan, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Anne Pasternak.
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