Texas rules: abstraction in a football stadium

Only in Texas do both reactionary politics and advanced art dominate.

Exhibit A is the Dallas Cowboys Art Program in its recently completed stadium. Instead of tapping LeRoy Neiman, somebody the state’s most famous politician is sure to have heard of, aritsts in the lineup are largely but not exclusively abstract or text based:  Franz Ackermann, Annette Lawrence, Olafur Eliasson Ricci Albenda, Mel Bochner, Daniel Buren, Teresita Fernandez, Terry Haggerty, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Jim Isermann, Dave Muller, Matthew Ritchie, Gary Simmons, Lawrence Weiner, Doug Aitken, Wayne Gonzales, and Jacqueline Humphries.

I’m dazzled. There’s a press tour Aug. 11. Press release here.