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Carolina A. Miranda: SoFi Stadium's art plan left Black artists in limbo. 'Used as a pawn' says artist rep

A view of SoFi Stadium from the Lake Park Overlook on Dec. 17, 2021. The stadium's fritted roof, made from ETFE panels appears to change color in the light throughout the day. SoFi was designed by a team of architects led by Lance Evans at HKS, with landscape design by Studio-MLA.

LOS ANGELES — When SoFi Stadium hosted the Super Bowl in February, the new stadium may have looked spiffy, but its public art program remained incomplete — largely at the expense of Black artists in the program. Two major installations by a pair of prominent Black artists not only remained uninstalled, but at the time it was unknown whether the stadium was going to even begin the process of getting sites prepped and the pieces fabricated. This included a site-specific land piece by prominent African American sculptor Maren Hassinger, as well as a pair of architectonic installations by Afro Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea.

As I noted back in February, it was not a good look for SoFi,

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