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Monsters move in to SFO Airport

05/19/15

The newest offering from the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport is an exhibition about monsters. Not the kind that live under the bed, but the monsters made famous by Universal Pictures, which pretty much invented the monster movie genre in 1923 with the Hunchback of Notre Dame and the Phantom of the Opera, →

Fresh art at Miami International Airport

05/12/15

Miami International Airport and Agencia EFE, the world’s largest Spanish-language news agency, are presenting an exhibition of 30 images by EFE photographers from the last decade titled Latin America: Celebrating the Joy of Life (Latinoamérica: Fiestas Populares, Tradición y Fiestas). The exhibition, located pre-security on the departures level between MIA’s North and Central terminals, celebrates →

Greetings from: Tokyo Narita Airport

04/09/15

Technically, it is a shop selling gift boxes of Japanese confections. But the Nippon Origami Museum in Terminal 1 at Tokyo’s Narita Airport devotes most of its space displays of creative, offbeat and surprising examples of origami. Here are a few more samples spotted on a short middle-of-the-night layover: The Origami Museum shop is just →

Dallas Love Field gets a piece of Dallas history

03/31/15

The impressive art-collection at Dallas Love Field Airport gets larger with the addition of an important stained glass window rescued from the demolition of an East Dallas church in the summer of 2013. According to the Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, the window is part of a historically-significant work by Dallas artist and teacher Octavio →

Art Deco on exhibit at SFO Airport

03/25/15

A new exhibition at San Francisco International Airport displays fashionable and everyday items that evoke the Art Deco era, from works by French sculptors to airline-shaped cocktail shakers and streamlined radios. Need a quick quick recap on Art Deco? The exhibition notes tell us that this design style popular in the 1920s and ’30s →

“Lagoon” art at MIA Airport

03/21/15

A new set of giant balloon sculptures by Florida artist Jason Hackenwerth is on display at Miami International Airport’s 4th floor South Terminal Gallery. Titled “Lagoon 2” (there was a previous installation) the five sculptures in the “balloon lagoon” are made with thousands interconnected balloons and are meant to evoke the vibrant colors of South →

Quilt & fiber art exhibit at Reno-Tahoe Int’l Airport

03/19/15

You can’t cozy up with them, but you can tour the quilts and fiber art on display in the depARTures gallery at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Created by the 150-member Carson Valley Quilt Guild, the work is on display through April 19, 2015. →

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Hawaiian Air adds art to ground service truck

03/09/15

As Air New Zealand showed us with its Hobbit-themed planes and Alaska Airlines proved with its Salmon Thirty Salmon planes, airplanes can double as great art pallets. Now Hawaiian Airlines is going beyond the airplane livery by having artists paint ground service vehicles. To mark the airline’s second anniversary serving the New Zealand market, Hawaiian →

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eBoy pixorama of Miami International Airport

02/25/15

The Berlin-born pixel artist collective known as eBoy is known for their all-pixel creations, including incredibly-detailed ‘pixoramas’ of Tokyo, Paris, Rio and many other cities. Now they’ve given Miami International Airport the treatment. At 6 feet by 9 feet, the detailed pixorama of MIA airport is the group’s largest such work to date and, lucky →

Fresh art at John Wayne Airport

02/24/15

The new art exhibit at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California shares some ‘hidden treasures’ plucked from the art collections of five Orange County colleges and universities and is on display through August 2015 in the Vi Smith Gallery across from Gates 18-21. The airport’s art program presents intriguing, museum-quality exhibits on a regular →

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