New Stadium Has Many Surprises

Owned by the City of Arlington and developed by the Jones Family, Cowboys Stadium is the largest, most technologically advanced entertainment venue in the world. Features of the stadium include seating for 80,000 (expandable to 100,000), 300 luxury suites, club seating on multiple levels, and the Dallas Cowboys Pro Shop.

The program launches with 14 commissioned artworks, which will be installed in prominent locations throughout the Stadium. Franz Ackermann, Annette Lawrence, and Olafur Eliasson are among those who have created new work for the program.

The commissions will be installed in locations with the highest pedestrian traffic, including four of the principal entries, the two monumental staircases and two pedestrian ramps that connect the seating decks (22-by-70 feet and 39-by-32 feet), and on huge walls above the main concourse concessions areas (15-by-114 feet).

The Dallas Cowboys offered a peek Monday at how the high-rollers will enjoy football at the team’s new $1.1 billion stadium. Cowboys officials conducted tours of the stadium’s first completed suite: a 700-square-foot, $175,000 room that seats 18. The design featured luxury of the kind usually seen in high-dollar steakhouses or mansions.

In addition to being the new home of the Dallas Cowboys, the stadium will host the 2011 Super Bowl, the 2010 NBA All-Star Game, and the 2014 NCAA men’s basketball Final Four as well as concerts, special events, and high school and college football games. Jerry Jones may have just topped booking U2 this fall.

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.

Tickets for McCartney’s show go on sale July 20 at 10 a.m., though American Express card members can purchase advance tickets on July 13 at 10 a.m. through July 19. The show will be Sir Paul’s first return to Dallas since 2005.

Neven Middlesby has been a fan of the Dallas Cowboys for over thirty years. He maintains a blog that is about the dallas cowboys stadium and will be at every game the Cowboys play. He will blog about each game at the newdallas cowboys stadium.

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