Posts in the category "Art":

It’s been just about a year since a tornado blew through Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.

Now a restored and upgraded Concourse C, which was heavily damaged in the storm, is set to reopen April 2nd, with a “tiled corridor, brighter ceilings, oval ‘cloud’ lighting, fully renovated restrooms, new signage, digital directory maps and five sets of art glass screens created by local artists.”

There will also be new and renewed shops and eateries, including Beer Bar and Grill (C1), by local brewer Schlafly,  La Tapenade Mediterranean Café (C8) and Chili’s Too.  Brooks Brothers is back and soon Bookmark Inmotion will open.

Also set to open at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is Sky High Tea: A Teapot Exhibition, in the airport’s new Meeting Place Gallery. On display through July 8, 2012 are teapots made of glass, clay, metal and fiber by 19 regional artists.

Anne Coddington Rast, Inside Out Teapot, Fiber, 2012

The Meeting Place Gallery is located in the Terminal 1 Bag Claim at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.

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Former skateboard champion Victor Perez now has an art gallery in Philadelphia where he creates and sells Sk8Lamps - lamps made from broken and damaged skateboards.

Part of the ‘upcycling” trends, “the lamps are constructed of used or rejected decks, wheels and trucks that have either fulfilled or cannot fulfill their intended purposes. The electrical pieces are removed from devices no longer deemed aesthetically pleasing and given extended life.”

Sound intriguing? A selection of Sk8Lamps will be on view at the Philadelphia International Airport, between Terminals A-East and B, through September 2012

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If you’re headed to Miami International Airport anytime soon, be sure to take a few moments to enjoy the paintings in the airport Central Terminal Gallery, located post-security in Concourse E.

In an exhibition titled The Masterpieces, Kristen Thiele has taken classical paintings and humorously re-created them with cats and dogs replacing people.

Each piece is painted on the back of a discarded window pane using the 15th century German painting technique known as hinter glas malerei, which translates to: “behind glass painting.” So what we see from left to right was actually painted from right to left in reverse.

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If you’re passing through Reagan Washington National Airport on Monday morning, February 27, 2012, around 10 a.m. then make your way to the historic lobby of Terminal A for a poetry slam.

The event is part of the airport’s Black History Month celebration and the local high school students competing will be judged by  a panel that includes Nikki Giovanni, a well-known poet and a New York Times Bestsellers List author; Amy Young, poet laureate from Alexandria, Va.; and Vincent Young, published author, artist and Airports Authority employee.

Following the Poetry Slam, Nikki Giovanni will read selections from her works and answer questions from the audience. A real treat!

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Just in time for the Academy Awards… Boston Logan International Airport has installed a new art exhibit with 30 movie posters celebrating many of the major Hollywood studio films shot in Massachusetts over the last 45 years.

The exhibit is hung chronologically by year, starting with a poster from “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” which was shot in Northampton and released in 1966. The posters continue through to “The Town,” which was shot in Boston, Cambridge, Melrose and Somerville and released in 2010.

Plaques next to each poster contain the year of the film’s release and many of the Massachusetts locations used in the film.

 When additional films are shot in the state, they will be added to the exhibit.

Look for the Massachusetts movie posters in the walkway between Terminal C and Terminal B.

Here are the films featured:

The Town

The Social Network

The Fighter

Bride Wars

Knight and Day

21

The Proposal

The Women

Gone Baby Gone

Good Will Hunting

Shutter Island

The Perfect Storm

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Mall Cop

The Verdict

A Civil Action

The Departed

Mystic River

Malice

The Crucible

Glory

The Cider House Rules

The Witches of Eastwick

The Firm

School Ties

The Boondock Saints

The Brink’s Job

Jaws

The Thomas Crown Affair

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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