I wish the Cowboys would put better art at AT&T Stadium

[Red Dragon]

Disclaimer: I have not been to AT&T Stadium since January 2019, so I don't know what they have there now.

But when I attended that Seahawks playoff game, there was all kinds of modernist art - big sploshes of orange, red, blue, yellow paint that looks like nothing - and meaningless slogans on the walls such as "Moving Towards a Resolution of Mass." Stuff that might belong in an art museum about Salvadore Dali or something like that, but not in a football stadium.

When I go to a Cowboys stadium, I want to see massive banners of Cowboys playing in legendary moments - perhaps some hundred-foot long banner photo of Staubach's Hail Mary to Pearson, or Aikman throwing that slant to Harper - all kinds of huge wall posters of Emmitt, Romo, Irvin, Haley, Landry, Jimmy, Dorsett, etc. I don't want to see big sploshes of meaningless paint that is completely unrelated to football.

 

[cern]

We've gone from football critics to art critics.

 

[Scotman]

I've only been to the stadium a few times. And even though we won every game I attended, the whole experience was ruined because of the overall choice of artwork. Great games, a raucous crowd, amazing views, the cheerleaders...none of that was enough to overcome Jones' curation of art.

 

[ShortRound]

Gawd

 

[aria]

We've gone from football critics to art critics.

to grammar and spelling kritics. How much worst will it get?

 

[RodeoJake]

to grammar and spelling kritics. How much worst will it get?

You have an acerbic wit.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Are you intentionally trying to piss Eugenia off?

 

[ChuckA1]

Art is subjective, Amigo. No way they can ever please everyone, so the important thing is for the buyer to please themselves.

 

[Red Dragon]

It's the offseason, guys. Every topic in the world is OK for minute dissection.

 

[Scotman]

It's the offseason, guys. Every topic in the world is OK for minute dissection.

I'll admit, at least it was a new topic.

 

[Cowboys22]

That stuff should have been reserved for the suites and suite level. The layman with regular seats wants to be surrounded by Cowboys football images and history. They could have commissioned some modern art with Dallas colors and themes. Maybe they did, I haven’t been. All the gushing over the artwork always seemed misplaced to me and I wondered why it was a big deal for a football stadium. That’s the last thing I would be concerned with if I ever go.

 

[Red Dragon]

All the gushing over the artwork always seemed misplaced to me and I wondered why it was a big deal for a football stadium. That’s the last thing I would be concerned with if I ever go.

That, and........it's not even good art.

If it were some magnificent photography of the Dallas skyline, or Texas country prairies in golden sunset, or a rustic cattle ranch, or something.....I'd be OK, even if I still want to see football stuff in a football stadium.

But instead we get awful looking splabs of garish yellow, orange and red paint that looks like that modernistic paint slopped from buckets that somehow calls itself art.

 

[ChuckA1]

That stuff should have been reserved for the suites and suite level. The layman with regular seats wants to be surrounded by Cowboys football images and history. They could have commissioned some modern art with Dallas colors and themes. Maybe they did, I haven’t been. All the gushing over the artwork always seemed misplaced to me and I wondered why it was a big deal for a football stadium. That’s the last thing I would be concerned with if I ever go.

I disagree 100%... and there you have it.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Wait, did you really think Jerry's Monument to Himself was about football?

 

[The Quest for Six]

"I wish the Cowboys would put better art at AT&T Stadium"

I wish they'd put a better football team on the field!!

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

I know some artists who can help with that.

 

[Ranched]

I don't want to see big sploshes of meaningless paint that is completely unrelated to football.

Reds, you know as well as everyone else that's called Art. It speaks to you. It's simply saying/displaying what the Cowboys franchise has been like for the past 20 years.

We've gone from football critics to art critics.

 

[reddyuta]

i cant understand modern art,the art in the building more be atrocious but i would never know.

 

[jujoboys]

Forget what kind of art they have displayed. I wish they would sell better brands of beer. Miller products leave a lot to be desired.

 

[Jake]

Disclaimer: I have not been to AT&T Stadium since January 2019, so I don't know what they have there now.

But when I attended that Seahawks playoff game, there was all kinds of modernist art - big sploshes of orange, red, blue, yellow paint that looks like nothing - and meaningless slogans on the walls such as "Moving Towards a Resolution of Mass." Stuff that might belong in an art museum about Salvadore Dali or something like that, but not in a football stadium.

When I go to a Cowboys stadium, I want to see massive banners of Cowboys playing in legendary moments - perhaps some hundred-foot long banner photo of Staubach's Hail Mary to Pearson, or Aikman throwing that slant to Harper - all kinds of huge wall posters of Emmitt, Romo, Irvin, Haley, Landry, Jimmy, Dorsett, etc. I don't want to see big sploshes of meaningless paint that is completely unrelated to football.

I agree. I'd like to see some large photos of Cowboys players from this century lifting a Super Bowl trophy.