Why the NFL is painting a giant mural on the end zones of this football field

To reach the arts crowd, the NFL is bringing a work by Jammie Holmes to a football field in Paris.

Jammie Holmes [Photo: Courtesy NFL]

Jammie Holmes’s Untitled (2024) is a painting that explores the fleeting nature of beauty and success through the depiction of a child emerging from morning glory flowers. As I write this, a giant version of the work, which has been painstakingly hand-painted onto strips of football field turf, is on a plane flying from New York City to Paris. 

The turf version of Holmes’s Untitled was commissioned by the NFL for a new initiative called Color Field. The supersized artwork will be rolled........

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