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Cool new COVID-fighting airport amenities

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Airports are rolling out new COVID-fighting amenities faster than we can keep up with them.

Here are few I’ll be talking about this week during the virtual Travel 2021 Summit taking place on October 7 and 8.

We’ll be talking about airports and airlines on Thursday at 10 a.m. east coast time.

The line-up includes lots of experts talking about what’s going in travel now – and what might happen in the near future. Registration is free.

Use your toes in the elevators at Tucson International Airport

At Tucson International Airport (TUS), elevators are now touch-free. Thanks to the addition of toe tap buttons.

Free gadget cleaning at Toronto Pearson International Airport

It looks like a copy machine. But if you put your gadgets in these machines at Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) they will get zapped by a UV-C light that destroys novel coronavirus cells.

24-hour kiosk stocked with essentials at Edmonton Int’l Airport

This self-serve Rexall Drug Store machine at Edmonton International Airport (EIA) has 85 different items.

Long Beach Airport wants you back

Long Beach Airport (LGB) has a new video out to remind travelers that they’ve got outdoor concourses and other amenities that are reassuring for travelers.

https://twitter.com/LGBAirport/status/1313279134068400128?s=20

Fresh art at Tucson Airport

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Art at Tucson Airport

There are fresh new exhibits to explore in the galleries at Tucson International Airport.

Photographer Patricia Katchur and multi-media sculptor Tim Diggles share the Upper Link Gallery, adjacent to the Frontier Airlines ticket counter, through February 18, 2011.

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From Patricia Katchur's 'Upon Awakening' series

Tim Diggles artwork at Tucson Airport

Electonica IV from the Music Machines series 2004, by Tim Diggles

In the Lower Link Gallery, adjacent to bag belt #7, you’ll find Dreamscapes, which includes encaustic paintings by Karon Leigh, ceramic sculpture by Philip Bellomo, and abstract paintings by Mishcka O’Connor. This show continues through February 11, 2011.

Read about the artists and see more of their work on the Tucson International Airport website.

And while you’re at Tucson Airport, be sure to look around for other temporary exhibits and all the great permanent art in the airport, including this great piece by John Davis titled Closet Under the Stairs.

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Closet Under the Stairs by John Davis

Tidbits for travelers: fresh art at airports in Tucson and Denver

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Next time you’re stuck at the airport don’t just sit there and be irritated.

Look around. It’s a fair bet you’ll find some great artwork just around the corner.

A few fresh examples:

(Terry Bustamante Idolatry)

From now through mid-August you can see work by Terry Bustamante and Jennifer Hill in an exhibit titled Exploring Other Worlds in the Upper Link Gallery at Tucson International Airport (TUS).

(Jennifer Hill: Muchacha con Mascara de Zorro)

In the Tucson airport’s Lower Link Gallery you’ll find a series of paintings  – architectural landscape interpretations – by Judith Kramer.

(Judith A Kramer: Architectural Forms Series#3)

And over at Denver International Airport (DEN) you’ll find Me Rento Para Soñar (I Rent Myself to Dream) and exhibition of paintings, engravings, sculptures, drawings, ceramics and tridimensional pieces by Mexican artist Alvaro Santiago. The work will be on display through Oct. 15 on the Mezzanine Level Gallery in A Concourse.

If you’ve got time to hang out in Denver, keep in mind that throughout July the city is hosting the 2010 Biennial of the Americas.


Two new art exhibits at Tucson International Airport (TUS)

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If you happen to be traveling to or through Tucson International Airport (TUS) anytime soon, make sure to build in some extra time to see the art.

Work by more than 40 regional artists is scattered throughout the airport and there are three galleries that display temporary exhibits.

Two new exhibits recently opened.

(Diana Creighton, Manipulate, oil on canvas, 36″ x 48″, 2008)

In the airport’s Center Gallery, Diana Creighton’s whimsical oil paintings from her Animal World Series are on exhibit through March 31.  Many of these paintings feature anthropomorphic animals and humans just going about everyday business.

(Anne Simmons-Myers, Fountain, 17″ x 22″, 2009)

The second new exhibit (on display next to the Security B checkpoint through May 31, 2010) is work by Anne Simmons-Myers.  The landscape photographs of Japan and Sri Lanka are from her series Prior Vision.

An expert in ‘alternative processes,’ the 19th and early 20th century methods of making photographs, Simmons-Myers combines the old with the new by abrading, over painting and burnishing straight digital photographs.

Look here for more information about the current exhibits on display at Tucson International Airport.  And if you see some great art at an airport, let us know so we can tell others.

Tuscon International Airport’s new art brochure

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From now through the end of December, 2009, the Center Gallery at Tucson International Airport (TUS) is featuring Lines.Space.Color, enamel paintings and sculpture by Tucson artist Steven Derks.

The exhibit includes two of Derks’ steel sculptures made of items he’s rescued from junkyards and scrap metal bins and Gridspace (below) made of 52 12” by 12” panels.

Tucson International Airport DERKS

There’s plenty of other art around Tucson International Airport:  in addition to several other temporary exhibit spaces, the airport owns more than 40 permanent works by area artists.

To see what’s there – and what’s where – download one of the airport’s brand new art brochures.

Tucson International Airport: new art exhibit is a Mystical Journey

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The newest art exhibit at Tucscon International Airport (TUS)  is called Mystical Journey and features the work of three Tucson painters:  Sue Betanzos, Catherine Eyde, and Janet Miller.

Here are some samples, starting with this piece by Sue Betanzos called Canto de Sonora

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This is Catherine Eyde’s After the Rain,

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And here is Janet Miller’s Trans-Sister Radio

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These works, and others, are on display in the Upper Link Gallery at Tucson International Airport.   Enjoy!


New art exhibits at Tucson International Airport

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If you’ll be traveling through Tucson International Airport anytime soon, be sure to leave some time to check out three new art exhibits offered by the airport’s Arts & Culture Program.

Tucson Schwindt Spring Blooms

(Spring Bloom, by David Schwindt)

In the airport’s main gallery, Scene in Arizona: Landscape Traditions presents paintings by Barbara Hill and David Schwindt that depict visions of the Western landscape.

Tucson - Re-create(Re-create, by Elizabeth Quinn-Worral)

In the Upper Link Gallery, an exhibit called It’s all ab0ut Color features paintings by southern Arizona artists Elizabeth Quinn-Worral and Shain LaBarge.  And in the Lower Link Gallery, Continuum Continues features the work of nine artists who are faculty and alumni from the University of Arizona’s School of Art’s new Visual Arts Graduate Research Laboratory.

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Even more airport art worth a look

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My USA TODAY roundup column about some great art exhibits at airports right now generated lots of mail about artwork on display at other airports.

At the Tucson International Airport, five new art installations were part of a recent concourse renovation project. One piece, Another Way To Fly, by glass artist Tom Philabaum, is suspended from the ceiling in the Center Pointe, in the middle of the terminal on the ticketing level.

And two sculptures, Unzipped (below) and Closet Under the Stairs, by John Davis, are tucked under the stairs at the American and Northwest baggage claim belts.

Elsewhere in the airport, there’s a new Native American Gallery with work by tribal artists from southern Arizona, photographs by Tucson photographer David Burckhalter, and pieces from the airport’s collection of more than 75 works by regional artists.

And at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) there are two new exhibits: one features close to 50 paintings from the United States Air Force Art Collection; the other showcases prize-winning images from the annual Governor’s Cup Yacht Race professional photography competition.

Scary air travel stories – just in time for Halloween

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(Illustration by MSNBC.com’s Duane Hoffman)

Earlier this month, TSA officers scanning luggage at the Tucson International Airport (TUS) discovered a human skull inside a passenger’s suitcase. When pulled off the plane and questioned, the woman told police that the skull wasn’t technically hers (it belonged to her boyfriend), that it had been sitting in her garden for years and that it was scheduled to be a Halloween prop.

According to news reports, police searched the woman’s home, a medical examiner confirmed that the skull was “not fresh” (my words, not his) and the woman was allowed to, ahem, head on north to Philadelphia and complete her trip.

The skull stayed behind.


This is just one of the recent scary travel stories, “ripped from the headlines,” included in my Well-Mannered Traveler column on MSNBC.com this week. With Halloween still a week away, I’m asking MSNBC readers – and you – to send in more spooky travel adventure tales.

The best stories will mysteriously show up in next week’s column. I even have a guest curator lined up.