{"id":425958,"date":"2026-04-30T22:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425958\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:56:18","slug":"sculpture-to-go-where-big-tex-stands-at-fair-park-during-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425958\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculpture to go where\u00a0Big Tex\u00a0stands\u00a0at Fair Park\u00a0during\u00a0World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-foot-tall bronze hand will take Big Tex\u2019s spot at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fair-park\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Fair Park<\/a>\u00a0as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/world-cup\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">FIFA World Cup<\/a>\u00a0festivities\u00a0this summer.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The hand,\u00a0holding\u00a0a globe embellished with license plates from around the\u00a0world, reflects\u00a0the city\u2019s creativity, culture and energy, Dallas\u00a0City\u00a0Manager\u00a0Kimberly\u00a0Bizor\u00a0Tolbert\u00a0said\u00a0in a\u00a0news release.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cBy bringing together art, community, and a global event of this scale, we are creating an experience that celebrates Dallas while connecting us to an international audience,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MM_onlineOnly\" title=\"CCI Online Only\">Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/article\/downtown-dallas-receiving-nearly-1-million-world-22210214.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Almost $1 million spent on downtown Dallas upgrades for World Cup<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fair Park is expected to host a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/fc-dallas\/2026\/03\/09\/dallas-34-day-fifa-world-cup-fan-festival-readies-for-opening-kick\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">34-day fan festival in South Dallas<\/a>, welcoming thousands of soccer fans.\u00a0The temporary installation \u2014 titled\u00a0The World is Ours\u00a0by artists\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.riskrock.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Risk Rock<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mesple.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Mespl\u00e9<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 is one of 11 projects supported by $30,000 grants\u00a0for\u00a0World Cup host cities. It\u00a0will be surrounded by informational signage in languages spoken by countries represented in\u00a0Dallas\u00a0matches,\u00a0according to an announcement from the National Endowment for the Arts,\u00a0which awarded the funding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The grants\u00a0will\u00a0support\u00a0entertainment\u00a0and educational programming\u00a0across the country\u00a0from May to the end of the year.\u00a0The Dallas sculpture is currently on view at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallerydefi.io\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Gallery DeFi in\u00a0West Dallas<\/a>.\u00a0Video of the\u00a0sculpture\u2019s\u00a0assembly\u00a0and its spinning globe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVfTBEPjMUG\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">is on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This reporting is part of the Future of North Texas, a community-funded journalism initiative supported by the Commit Partnership, Communities Foundation of Texas, The Dallas Foundation, the Dallas Mavericks, the Dallas Regional Chamber, Deedie Rose, Lisa and Charles Siegel, the McCune-Losinger Family Fund, The Meadows Foundation, the Perot Foundation, the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas and the University of Texas at Dallas. The News retains full editorial control of this coverage.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 12-foot-tall bronze hand will take Big Tex\u2019s spot at\u00a0Fair Park\u00a0as part of the\u00a0FIFA World Cup\u00a0festivities\u00a0this summer.\u00a0\u00a0The hand,\u00a0holding\u00a0a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,16212,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,26965,186178,186177,186176,168501,186179],"class_list":["post-425958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-entertainment","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-local-government","tag-tp-future-of-north-texas","tag-tp-south-dallas","tag-tp-southern-dallas","tag-tp-visual-arts","tag-tp-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}