Art Joins Nets at Barclays Center

September 20, 2012, 5:56 pm

By PATRICIA COHEN

The Barclays Center, home of the Brooklyn Nets, is now also the site of a few ambitious art projects that include a giant vinyl mural of Brooklyn's cityscape by Mickalene Thomas (part of which is shown above) and a 70-foot-long painting by the local artist José Parlá. A collaboration of three digital artists - Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar and Paul Kaiser - who call themselves OpenEndedGroup, will also get prime placement on the center's 3,000-square-foot, 360-degree LED marquee outside the main entrance. “The works by Mickalene Thomas, José Parlá and OpenEndedGroup are just the beginning,” Bruce Ratner, a co-owner of the center, said. Arnold L. Lehman, director of the Brooklyn Museum, and Eugenie Tsai , a curator of contemporary art there, are serving as advisers for the center's arts program.