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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Visual Art The Art at Cowboys Stadium

Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:14 PM

Al Roker likes it.

Richard Lacayo, art critic of Time, is less impressed with the entire spirit of the place, art and architecture alike. He sums up the attitude of billionaire team owner Jerry Jones in creating it.

Though Jones wanted his new stadium to be an icon, he stopped short of hiring name architects like Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster or Herzog & de Meuron, the guys who have added star power to stadium design over the past few years. Why butt heads with a big thinker when you've got some big thoughts of your own? "We really knew what this building was going to look like," Jones says. "What I needed was a good listener."

(Via MAN.)

And speaking of stadium designers and artists, you've heard that Ai Weiwei (artist and onetime designer of the Beijing Olympic's Bird's Nest stadium) has been hospitalized after being attacked by Chinese authorities, right?

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I'm convinced Jerry Jones could have performed a human sacrifice on the 50-yard line during halftime and no one would have batted an eye. There was even a shot of him during the game, waving like Nero to his subjects. I think the Holy Trinity in Texas is God, Jerry Jones, and Tom Landry, not necessarily in that order.

Posted by laterite on September 23, 2009 at 2:17 PM