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Look, you’re probably not headed to Intuit Dome just to see the artwork. First and foremost, the soon-to-open Inglewood arena will be the home of the Los Angeles Clippers when the NBA season starts in the fall. And even before it’s time for basketball, the 17,700-plus-seat venue will welcome concertgoers, starting with Bruno Mars in August .

But don’t be surprised if you come away from your first visit with just as many photos of the art as the event. That’s because the Clippers have assembled an all-star team of L.A.



and Inglewood artists to craft site-specific installations for its new home, which Gillian Zucker, president of business operations for the Clippers, calls a basketball palazzo, music mecca and urban oasis. We were invited this week to preview the first half-dozen installations to be unveiled at Intuit Dome, including works by Refik Anadol, Glenn Kaino, Patrick Martinez, Michael Massenburg, Kyungmi Shin and Jennifer Steinkamp. As the arena’s art consultant Ruth Berson explains, the team didn’t solicit proposals for its pieces but instead specifically approached all of these artists for their commissions (after being selected from a shortlist hatched by museum curators, art historians and the local arts community).

After three years of discussion, planning, fabrication and installation, the resulting pieces manage to, in our opinion, successfully accomplish something seemingly pretty tricky: to create large-scale installations that are both obviously .

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