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, which is located at the heart of historically Black Inglewood.
Now a letter sent to the city of Inglewood lays out one artist's frustrations with the stadium and the lack of clarity about the timeline and process.
