{"id":887,"date":"2009-08-07T13:53:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T20:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/08\/texas_rules_abstraction_in_a_f\/"},"modified":"2009-08-07T13:53:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T20:53:45","slug":"texas_rules_abstraction_in_a_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/08\/texas_rules_abstraction_in_a_f.html","title":{"rendered":"Texas rules: abstraction in a football stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only in Texas do both reactionary politics and advanced art dominate. <\/p>\n<p>Exhibit A is the Dallas Cowboys Art Program in its recently completed <a href=\"http:\/\/stadium.dallascowboys.com\/\">stadium<\/a>. Instead of tapping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leroyneiman.com\/core.htm\">LeRoy Neiman<\/a>, somebody the state&#8217;s most famous politician is sure to have heard of, aritsts in the lineup are largely but not exclusively abstract or text based:&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitecube.com\/artists\/ackermann\/\">Franz Ackermann<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annettelawrence.net\/main.html\">Annette Lawrence<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/olafur%20eliasson\/\">Olafur Eliasson<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewkreps.com\/artists_portfolio.html?aid=52\">Ricci Albenda<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melbochner.net\/\">Mel Bochner<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielburen.com\/\">Daniel Buren<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lehmannmaupin.com\/#\/artists\/teresita-fernandez\/\">Teresita Fernandez<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hammer.ucla.edu\/exhibitions\/detail\/exhibition_id\/82\">Terry Haggerty<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/art21\/artists\/hancock\/index.html\">Trenton Doyle Hancock<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimisermann.com\/\">Jim Isermann<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blumandpoe.com\/davemuller\/\">Dave Muller<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewritchie.com\/biography.php\">Matthew Ritchie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/interactives\/projects\/1999\/conversations\/gs_f.html\">Gary Simmons<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitney.org\/weiner\/\"> Lawrence Weiner<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dougaitkenworkshop.com\/\">Doug Aitken<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artinfo.com\/galleryguide\/artwork\/11555\/40\/19144\/wayne-gonzales-seated-crowd\/\">Wayne Gonzales<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacquelinehumphries.net\/\">Jacqueline Humphries<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m dazzled. There&#8217;s a press tour Aug. 11. Press release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.resnicowschroeder.com\/media.asp?PR=707\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s most famous politician is sure to have heard of, aritsts in the lineup are largely but not exclusively abstract or text based:&nbsp; Franz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}