Is there an "art installation" (as Barclays Center claims) emerging at Ticketmaster Plaza, or is it New York Liberty marketing?

Updated July 2.

There was something a bit cryptic in the July 2025 event calendar circulated yesterday, June 30, to neighbors. (My coverage.)

The notice also alerted readers to "an art installation on the Plaza"--which for these purposes they choose not to describe as Ticketmaster Plaza--starting Sunday June 29 at 5 am through Thursday July 3 at 12 noon. 

That suggests they were ready to send out the notice before June 29, but chose not to do so, perhaps because it was delayed. Indeed, as of the evening of July 1, it still wasn't finished, but it was clearly an homage of some sort to the New York Liberty roster: at the center-right is forward Leonie Fiebich.

Photo: July 1 evening

As of Sunday, June 29, the installation was barely in process, truncating a good part of pedestrian access to this "public" space.

Photo: June 29

So it's supposed to last through an unspecified "private event" Wednesday 12 noon to 2 pm, and would be removed in time for entry to the New York Liberty game at 7 pm on Thursday. (Unless it is supposed to stay through midnight, past the game?)

Photo: July 1

What's going on?

Photos from the morning July 1, mostly taken inside the fence, suggest that the "art installation" has to do with the Liberty.

So it's marketing, perhaps with an element of social justice (if related to the Social Justice Fund of arena company/team owner Joe and Clara Wu Tsai), more than public education. 

They could've just told us about the "private event." 

The photo at right, which is a close-up of an image in the wide photo below, shows, I believe (based on my perusal of Google images), Liberty player Kennedy Burke with her father, in Los Angeles' Balboa Sports Center.

One of the banners in the backdrop names Burke as part of a team that was a regional champ and a city finalist in 2007, when she was ten years old.

So, given the photo up top, the "art installation" looks not to be an homage to a broader roster.

Photo: July 1 morning

Note that activity as of July 1 morning remains behind a fence. Photo: July 1

Photo: July 1 morning