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Dallas Love Field airport adds more public art to burgeoning collection

If you're one of the thousands of people stranded at Dallas Love Field airport this weekend, take heart. There are two new public art exhibits on display thanks to the Love Field Art Program: Tom Orr’s Intersected Passage and Diana Goldberg and Julie Cohn’s Luminaria.

Public art has been a part of Dallas Love Field since 1961, but it wasn't until the renovations the airport has been undergoing since 2009 that they really got serious about it.

Intersected Passage, a sculpture by the Dallas-based Orr, was inspired by the original 1958 entrance sign to Love Field, a sign that was recently restored and reinstalled earlier this year. The sculpture, arching over the entrance ramp to the terminal, is 17 feet tall and made of colored and mirrored aluminum.

Diana Goldberg and Julie Cohn’s Luminaria is a series of 10-foot-tall stainless steel cylinders with interior lighting located in the entrance garden area. The pieces are reminiscent of luminarias that crop up during the holiday season. But Goldberg and Cohn want the designs in each cylinder to evoke something different, namely computer technology, weather and mapping, routing, thermodynamics, Bernoulli’s Principle, and physics.

The installation of the new artworks, most of which can be seen without actually entering the terminal, means that nine of the 11 works that were commissioned in 2009 have now been installed.

Two more — a work from Stephen T. Johnson to be installed in the west tunnel from the baggage claim and one by Tim Prentice that will be put somewhere in the main lobby or terminal — will be installed by the time renovations to the airport are finished in 2014.

Tom Orr's Intersected Passage at Dallas Love Field.

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Tom Orr's Intersected Passage at Dallas Love Field.

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Museum News

National Medal of Honor Museum offers preview at downtown Dallas event

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The AT&T Discovery District hosted a mobile museum pop-up.

A high-profile museum opening in 2025 offered a preview in downtown Dallas: It's The National Medal of Honor Museum, slated to open in Arlington, at Nolan Ryan Expressway and AT&T Way in the Stadium district in spring 2025.

To give folks a preview of coming attractions, the institution dispatched a mobile museum to make a visit to the AT&T Discovery District on November 20, during lunchtime when foot traffic is brisk.

Imagine the sense of wonder and amazement that downtown Dallas denizens must have felt upon the sight of a double decker bus, parked in the District, equipped with video and historical information about the Medal of Honor award, stories of the recipients, and a rendering of how the museum in Arlington will look.

The National Medal of Honor MuseumCourtesy rendering

The goal of The National Medal of Honor Museum is to inspire Americans by honoring and preserving the history of the highest military decoration awarded for valor in combat.

They hope it will serve as a national landmark, illustrating the historical thread of sacrifice and patriotism that runs through all U.S. military service members, past and present.

Beyond its state-of-the-art, interactive experiences, a critical part of the Museum’s mission will be to use the stories of Medal of Honor recipients to inspire their fellow Americans.

It will incorporate the AT&T Virtual Recipient Theater, an augmented reality experience where visitors can interact with with Medal of Honor recipients. The space will be equipped with cutting-edge conversational AI technology complete with voice recognition to allow museum goers to have a conversation in a 3D format with medal of honor recipients living and past.

It will also have AT&T Branded Wi-Fi throughput the museum.

Interior of the mobile Medal of Honor Museum.AT&T