The sprawling new US$1.15-billion home of the Dallas Cowboys is nearly sold out for the 2009 season. Team spokesman Brett Daniels says Cowboys Stadium in Arlington is 95 per cent sold out. A few thousand season tickets remain. Daniels on Wednesday told The Associated Press that more than 22,000 “Party Pass” tickets, at US$29 apiece, have been sold.
The ticket is essentially standing-room only, with’0,000 square feet built into the stadium specifically so fans can hang out during games. Much of the space is on decks and patios.
The retractable-roof stadium has capacity of about 100,000 for football, with 300 luxury suites. The Cowboys play their first game in the new stadium on Aug. 21, facing Tennessee in a pre-season matchup.
A number of the commissions wrap around stadium walls. Others are located in entryways and will be visible to fans seated in the stadium. Artists have already begun working with construction crews to install their works, most of which will be in place for the first regular-season game on September 20, 2009, against the New York Giants.
The Dallas Cowboys Art Program was conceived, launched, and funded by Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones and his wife Gene. Their daughter, Charlotte Anderson, and niece, Melissa Meeks, have also played prominent roles in the project.
An Art Council of noted curators and collectors is serving as an advisory committee to evaluate and recommend artists and their works.
Its members include: Michael Auping, Chief Curator, the Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth; Charlie Wylie, Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art, the Dallas Museum of Art; and Texas-based collectors Howard Rachofsky and Gayle Stoffel. Mary Zlot of the art advisory firm Mary Zlot … Associates is providing counsel on the program.
The Art Program also encompasses acquisitions of work for existing sites by Doug Aitken, Wayne Gonzales, Jacqueline Humphries, and a second work by Eliasson.
Neven Middlesby has been a fan of the Dallas Cowboys for over thirty years. He maintains a blog that is about the and will be at every game the Cowboys play. He will blog about each game at the new.
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