L.A. Clippers unveil contemporary art commissions for new Intuit Dome arena

Six commissioned public artworks will welcome guests to the new home of the National Basketball Association's LA Clippers, Intuit Dome. Transforming the campus into an inclusive gathering place, the world-class murals, digital installations, and sculpture made specifically for the site will invite visitors into a celebration of community and the power of creative spirit.
A seventh major commissioned artwork, by Charles Gaines, will be unveiled at a later date.
The artworks were unveiled to the public at a ceremony on July 11, 2024, where this video comes from.
The entire surface of the Intuit Dome itself, designed by the architectural firm AECOM, provides the background and material for Jennifer Steinkamp’s digital artwork Swoosh.
Standing in front of the main entrance to Intuit Dome, Glenn Kaino’s massive sculpture Sails, made of painted steel and wood and measuring 41’ 7 ¼” by 28’ 11 ¼” by 58’ 10 ½”, looms in the form of the clipper ships that connected the world via the ocean’s trade routes.
Bordering the Intuit Dome’s plaza, behind the campus’s outdoor community basketball court, stands a new digital artwork by Refik Anadol titled Living Arena, displayed on an LED screen 40 feet tall by 70 feet wide.
Across the plaza from Living Arena will be Patrick Martinez’s sculpture Same Boat. Using one of the modern city’s most common visual forms-the neon sign-Martinez creates an image in glowing light, approximately nine feet square, that reproduces a statement by the late Civil Rights leader Whitney M. Young: “We may have all come on different ships but we’re in the same boat now.”
On a wall adjacent to Same Boat, visitors will find Kyungmi Shin’s stained glass mosaic with stainless steel tracery, Spring to Life. For this work, measuring 22.75 feet by 7.5 feet, Shin drew inspiration from Centinela Springs, the now-vanished water source in South Los Angeles that once supported the Tongva people and the land they cultivated.
For many visitors to the Intuit Dome, or motorists driving by, the first artwork to come into view will be Michael Massenburg’s joyful mural of printed porcelain enamel on steel panel, titled Cultural Playground. Installed so that it faces outward from the campus, the immense montage of the sights and sounds of Los Angeles, 25 feet tall and 100 feet wide, expresses the artist’s belief that “the two most profound things that unite people are the arts and sports.”