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\n\tThe Barclays Center arena in downtown Brooklyn is expanding its arts programming in the service of \u201cBrooklyn Art Encounters,\u201d a new multi-year initiative to continue public art presentations on the building\u2019s high-profile plaza but also move into other realms including an artist-in-residence program to be inaugurated by Paul Pfeiffer. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tPfeiffer, whose work has engaged the spectacle around sports, will lead what a press release describes as \u201ca year-long media workshop engaging justice-impacted youth and adults from surrounding communities\u201d in collaboration with artist Shaun Leonardo. With support from the Social Justice Fund, the two artists will provide training in video production, storytelling, and media practices, as well as behind-the-scenes access to Barclays Center operations during live events, including broadcasting, security, and concessions. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThat begins in May, when a new \u201cArt on the Hour\u201d series of digital artworks will also start broadcasting 60-second artworks on the arena\u2019s looming \u201cOculus\u201d LED screen. In the fall, Sarah Sze will premiere Wave<\/em>, a new commissioned work \u201csuspending over 250 animated projected images in a wave like sculpture\u201d in the Barclays Center\u2019s entry atrium. Around the same time, big paintings by Rashid Johnson and Mark Bradford will go on view in the arena\u2019s \u201cFlatbush Premium\u201d entrance. And Kambui Olujimi will present We Always Have Room for One More<\/em>, a series of \u201cseven bronze historical and fictional characters playing the local street game Skelly\u201d on the arena\u2019s plaza flanked by Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues.<\/p>\n \n\tThe future \u201cBrooklyn Art Encounters\u201d programming follows a presentation last summer for which LaToya Frazier presented large-scale photo portraits of players from the New York Liberty\u2014the celebrated women\u2019s basketball team that shares the Barclays Center with the lowly Brooklyn Nets. Other artists whose work has shown around the Barclays Center include Ursula von Rydingsvard, Adam Pendleton, Mickalene Thomas, Tavares Stachan, and Jos\u00e9 Parl\u00e1.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cBrooklyn Art Encounters\u201d will be overseen in a curatorial adviser role by Andria Hickey, formerly the chief curator of the Shed as well as a curator for Pace Gallery, MOCA Cleveland, and New York\u2019s Public Art Fund. The program\u2019s team of advisors includes Thelma Golden, Michael Govan, Clara Kim, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Anne Pasternak, and Akili Tommasino.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/barclays-center-brooklyn-art-program-1234779742\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GG_070325-006-1.jpg?w=1024″] The Barclays Center arena in downtown Brooklyn is expanding its arts programming in the service of \u201cBrooklyn Art Encounters,\u201d a new multi-year initiative to continue public art presentations on the building\u2019s high-profile plaza but also move into other realms including an artist-in-residence program to be inaugurated by Paul Pfeiffer. \u00a0 Pfeiffer, whose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1865808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1865808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1865808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1865808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1865808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}