Public art in Dallas

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The city of Dallas, Texas has a public art collection of over 300 individual pieces of art. [1] Dallas Love Field Airport has almost 20 pieces of art, [1] and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport has over 30 more. [2] Well known sculptures on public display include Dallas Piece by Henry Moore , Floating Sculpture by Marta Pan and Eye by Tony Tasset. Dallas has at least one Confederate memorial on public display, the Confederate War Memorial, and a memorial to freed slaves, Freedman's Memorial by David Newton, installed in 1999. [3] Dallas Area Rapid Transit has run the DART Station Art & Design Program since 1988, [4] and as of 2007, had about 40 installations at transit stations and Cityplace, Dallas's subway station. [5]

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  1. 1 2 THE DALLAS PUBLIC ART COLLECTION, City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, retrieved 2018-03-24
  2. Art Program (official website), Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, retrieved 2018-03-24
  3. Freedmen's Cemetery Memorial, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, 2016
  4. DART public art (video), Dallas Area Rapid Transit
  5. DART Gallery: A Collection of Public Art (PDF), Dallas Area Rapid Transit, 2007

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