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Beatle to Open Up New Stadium

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 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’. The design featured luxury of the kind usually seen in high-dollar steakhouses or mansions.

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.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said recently that 273 of the approximately 300 suites had been sold. The prices range from $100,000 to $500,000 a year, which includes tickets and parking but not food or drinks.

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.

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