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A new exhibit at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) features artwork by nine Los Angeles-based artists.  Titled, “of Intricacy,” the exhibit includes paintings (oil, acrylic and watercolor), wire sculptures, digital media, collages, and fiber sculptures. The exhibition will be on display through October, 2009.  Look for it in Terminal 1 on the Departures Level in
The folks at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport sent along some more information about the airport’s  Burning Man exhibit and how hosting the artwork is helping to build bridges between the community and the “Burners”. According to airport spokesman Brian Kulpin: “For many years, the local community did not embrace the Burning Man event.   But over
Reno-Tahoe International Airport is working its way up the “cool airport” list.  The airport has slot machines, free Wi-Fi, and complimentary “productivity centers” (thank-you Reno-Gazette Journal) complete with electrical outlets and work tables. The airport also offers free local and toll-free calls from phones in the three Productivity Centers (the Main Lobby by Brew Brothers;
A new exhibit featuring seven paintings by Melchior d’Hondecoeter (1636-1695), the most renowned Dutch painter of 17th century ‘bird pieces’, will be on view through October 2009 in the Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam Schiphol airport. Hondecoeter paintings featured geese (Brent, Egyptian and Red-Breasted), partridges, doves, sparrows, Golden Orioles, peacocks, but also African Black-Crowned Cranes, Australian Yellow-Crested