On the road but no time to visit the art museum? Don’t fret: along with fine dining, boutique shopping and full-service spas, top-notch art collections are now permanent amenities at many airport terminals.
For a slide-show on MSN.com, I pulled together examples of some of the fun stuff you’ll find in 15 airports in North America.
You can see the full slide show by visiting the story on MSN.com Travel: Airports with the Best Artwork, but here’s a preview:
Artwork, some of it Texas-sized, by more than 30 local, national and internationally known artists dots DFW: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Terminal D and the Skylink train stations. Look down to see elaborate medallions in the terrazzo floors, look up to see giant murals and mobiles and look straight ahead to see unusual sculptures such as Anitra Blayton’s 16-foot tall “Standing Ovation,” (above) made from the casts of hundreds of pairs of hands.
At Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) the flying corncob on Concourse E is Craig Nutt’s work: “Corncorde,”
And at Sacramento International Airport (SMF) the big attraction is the supersized “Samson,” a sculpture in the Terminal A baggage-claim area made of two 23-foot tall towers of stacked luggage made of 1,400 pieces of cast-offs donated by area residents.
To see more fun airport art, see the full-length slide show on MSN.com travel: Airport with the Best Artwork.
If I missed some great airport that you especially like, please let me know!
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You mention the medallions in terazzo at DFW, but fail to mention the medallions in the food court area of Concourse A/B at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI). Installed by BAA during the construction of the facilities, the medallions display various local scenes. And some of the tables in the food courts carry the same designs.