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Three new exhibitions at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) are all about the city’s natural and urban geographies.

“Oceano Romantico” was curated by Giorgio Carlevaro and features work by 20 local artists charged with relating how the ocean’s energy “drives their desire to capture its eternal, yet ephemeral beauty.” Look for these pieces in Terminal 1 in the main corridor and along the hallway leading to Gate #2.

“A Place in the Sun: Desert Landscapes,” in Terminal 2, features oil paintings of natural desert elements, such as cactus, rocks, and wildflowers by local artists Judith Amdur and James Griffith.

And in “Alternative Places,” in the Tom Bradley International Terminal Arrivals Lobby, curator Jay Lizo asked 37 local artists to create artwork 12 x 12 inches about a place in Los Angeles. This exhibit is on display through October 19, 2008.

Categories: Art, Exhibits
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Given how stressed we all get over air travel these days, it’s easier than ever for even the most well-mannered traveler to do or say something that gets them in hot water at the airport. But sometimes a mishap or a meltdown can boil over into a potential or actual federal offense.

So it’s a good idea to know where the lines are drawn.

Read about how to stay out of the airport pokey – and how I almost landed there after coming this close to causing an evacuation of Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) – in my Well Mannered Traveler column posted today on MSNBC.com.

(Column illustration by Duane Hoffman, MSNBC.com)

Categories: TSA, Well-Mannered Traveler
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Miami International Airport (MIA) needs help figuring out what to do with 36-acres of real estate. So investors, developers, and entrepreneurs are being invited to submit ideas for how to make over the area around the main entrance of the airport, which is known as Central Boulevard.

This is prime real-estate: “Ninety-six percent of the visitors to Miami – eight million people annually – arrive at MIA, and they all exit the airport on Central Boulevard,” said Miami-Dade Aviation Director José Abreu.

What does the airport have in mind? Amenities such as a conference center, a hotel, a retail and office complex, and a service plaza with a convenience store, gas station and dry cleaners. And maybe one of those pet resorts that seem to be popping up at so many other airports these days.

My ideas: A gym with an outdoor swimming pool, a bowling alley, or a really cool miniature golf course

Not into building something brand new? The airport also needs help figuring out what to do with the 252-room in-terminal MIA Hotel.

You have until October 15 to send in your proposals. Here’s a link for more information.

Categories: Renovations
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In anticipation of the November 8^th re-opening of New York City’s Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, an exhibit about the famed aircraft carrier is on view now in the Central Terminal at LaGuardia Airport.

The exhibit runs through Nov. 8, 2008 and includes memorabilia from the Intrepid, replicas of fighter planes that have launched from the aircraft carrier, interactive educational displays, and an “Art in Motion” program that invites travelers to paint a large model airplane.

The opening of the Intrepid Museum exhibit is part of Aviation Week activities hosted by the Food & Shops at LGA’s Central Terminal. Festivities include a week-long sidewalk sale, food sampling, and free airplane-themed balloons and stickers for kids. Through November 20^th, travelers can also enter a contest to win one of the exhibited model airplanes as well as tickets to the museum.

About The Intrepid

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum re-opens November 8, 2008 at New York City’s new, park-like Pier 86. The complex includes 30 restored aircraft, the former USS Growler submarine and a Concorde airplane.

Categories: Art, Cell Phones
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Today, August 19, is National Aviation Day, observed each year on Orville Wright’s birthday.

Orville and his brother Wilbur are credited with inventing the first airplane to achieve powered, sustained, and controlled flight. All but dropped from the Wright Brothers story, though, is the contribution Katherine Wright, their sister, made to aviation history.

As I reported in a feature I did for National Public Radio in 2003, sadly, it was Orville himself who tried to scrub Katherine from history. Let’s put her back.

Katharine ready to fly with Orville in a Wright Model HS, 1915.

Categories: History
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