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Fun, fab blue jean advertising art at SFO Museum

09/12/12

The SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport has a fun, fab new exhibit featuring advertising used to promote blue jeans from Levi Strauss & Co. as early as 1873. From Art Nouveau to Pop Day-Glo: Levi Strauss Advertising As Art features art and ephemera from the company’s archives, including catalog covers, salesman’s flyers, calendars […]

Look down – and around – at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport

09/10/12

Next time you’re at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport look down – and around. The airport has thirty works of art that are part of the building, including 10 floor medallions on the concourse. The one above, titled “Flight,” is by Michele Oka Doner and, like the other floor medallions, may be hard to see […]

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Fresh art at Portland International Airport

09/03/12

Oregon’s Portland International Airport is showcasing work from artist Marshall Roemen in the north ticket lobby. Roemen’s site-specific installation is inspired by American author Flannery O’Connor, particularly her collection of short-stories entitled, Everything That Rises Must Converge, which she was working on at the time of her death. Here’s a link to more images from […]

Fresh Art at Miami International Airport

08/25/12

A new exhibit at Miami International Airport (MIA) titled Natural Curiosities features the work of five Miami artists and illustrates both the microscopic and grand wonders of nature. Jennifer Basile, Regina Jestrow, Carrie Sieh, Gerry Stecca and Liza Sylvestre utilize plywood, fabric, copper wire, watercolors and even clothespins to demonstrate the dynamic creativity of nature. Basile’s […]

What every traveler needs: a remover of obstacles

08/22/12

The SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport is presenting an exhibition of Hindu sculptures from the collections of the Asian Art Museum from Saturday August 25th through Sunday, February 24, 2013, post-security in Terminal 3. The exhibited objects range from seventh- and eighth-century temple images carved from stone to elaborately rendered wooden sculptures made […]

Sculpture at Dulles Airport promotes peace and tolerance

08/17/12

The world could use a bit more peace and tolerance and that’s the theme of a sculpture by DC-based artist Anil Revri recently installed at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) in Concourse A/B. Wall for Peace is 7 feet long, 6 ½ feet high and features a four-sided LED screen that displays English translations of […]

Hand-sewn, life-size furniture at Philadelphia Int’l Airport

08/11/12

Philadelphia artist Kay Healy is known for her hand-drawn, hand-sewn, stuffed fabric cutouts of life-size home furnishings. For the past year she’s been holding community sewing days so that others could help make the hand-sewn elements for Coming Home, a 30-foot long installation of 4 rooms – a kitchen, bathroom, dining room, and living room […]

Paintings of currency & postage stamps at John Wayne Airport

08/08/12

75 paintings of currency and postage stamps by pop artist Robert Dowd (1936-1995), on loan from a private collector, are on display through mid-January 2013 at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California. You can see more images from the exhibit here. From the airport notes about the exhibit: Dowd became interested in art in […]

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Coloramas at New York City’s Grand Central Terminal

08/06/12

These days, airports are the major crossroads of modern life. But not too long ago, train stations had that honor. And if you stop in at New York City’s Grand Central Terminal during a busy weekday morning or afternoon, you can still feel some of that ‘everyone is rushing somewhere’ excitement. In addition to the […]

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