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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 […]

Steampunk exhibit at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport

02/18/15

A new exhibit at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX) features six display cases filled with steampunk creations that combine science fiction, history and art. On display are about 50 different objects, including “period-looking costumes complete with top hats or bustles, and fanciful gadgets created from random bits and bobs” as well as a navigator […]

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Sculptures made of Starbucks cups at JFK Airport

02/05/15

As part of Delta Air Lines’ announcement that it will now be serving Starbucks coffee on board its airplanes, the airline commissioned artists in London, New York and Sao Paulo to create sculptures using Starbucks cups. Look for the cup sculptures, which depict Big Ben in London, Tokyo’s Sensoji Temple in the historic district of […]

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Art made from the roof of Lambert-St. Louis Int’l Airport

01/22/15

Here’s a great – and rare – way to get a work of art made from a piece of an airport. Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is offering limited edition prints made of reclaimed copper from the airport’s historic Terminal 1 roof. This one is my favorite: Three St. Louis presses – The Firecracker Press, Pele […]

Fresh art at Miami International Airport

01/14/15

Next time you’re at Miami International Airport, look for Meltdown, a new art mural by Miami artist Jen Stark that creates a waterfall of oozing colors in the airport’s North Terminal on the third floor from the parking garage or the MIA Mover station.

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Vending machine full-o-art at Kansas City Int’l Airport

12/31/14

Here’s a fun new airport amenity that should soon spread to more airports around the country: Kansas City International Airport has a vending machine that dispenses locally made art and souvenirs. . Curated by SouveNEAR, a company that produces and sells authentic local goods, the machine is located in the Southwest Airlines area of KCI’s […]

Giant cuckoo clock for Portland Int’l Airport

12/19/14

A giant chainsaw-carved cuckoo clock is helping to keep Portland, Oregon – and its airport – weird. A project of Travel Portland and created for a winter tourism campaign, this cuckoo clock is 24-feet-tall, nine-and-a-half-feet wide and weighs in at 7000 pounds, making it the largest freestanding cuckoo clock in the United States. The impossible […]

In Miami and St. Louis: fresh art at the airport

12/04/14

The 2015 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, is underway through December 7 and Miami International Airport is doing its part by offering Sisterhood – a new series of portrait/landscape paintings by Miami-based Argentine artist Nina Surel that will remain on display through February 2015 in the Central Terminal Gallery, just beyond the Concourse E […]

Fresh art at Chicago’s O’Hare Int’l Airport

11/16/14

There’s a new art installation called “City Windows” at O’Hare International Airport that covers 15 windows and was created in traditional Chinese paper cut style. Look for it by Gate B19. Created by artist Qiao Xiaoguang, Director of the Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Center at the Central Academy for Fine Arts in Beijing, the […]

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