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Video game history on exhibit at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport

11/20/09
A new exhibit at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS)  is all about the history of the video game industry and includes some original video-game-related art and artifacts related to the Austin-based development of such video game classics as Wing Commander, The Black Gate and Thief: Deadly Shadows. (Pen and ink concept art drawing by Denis Loubet […]

Art made from soil – yes soil – at John Wayne Airport

11/06/09
A new exhibition featuring artwork made from soil collected from 38 United Nations countries is now on display at the John Wayne Airport (SNA) in Orange County, California. “Commonground191” includes 14 paintings that Gary Simpson created with soil collected from 38 different countries, along with samples of the soils and information explaining how the soil […]

New exhibit at Miami International Airport’s mia Gallery

10/29/09
This looks fun: Free Arranger, a collection of works by five contemporary visual artists is on display until January 2010 at Miami International Airport’s Central Terminal mia Gallery. That’s post-security on level 2 of Concourse E. Pop-up Interior by Michelle Weinberg “Artists Dimitry Saïd Chamy, Theresa Hackett, Judith Robertson, Michelle Weinberg and Elizabeth Cheatham Wild […]

Dia de Muertos celebration at Kelowna International Airport

10/26/09
Kelowna International Airport (YLW) is a small(ish) airport in British Columbia, Canada that serves about one million passengers a year.   It’s about an hour from Vancouver, with a kid’s play area, some intriguing art and history exhibits and, starting November 1st, 2009, non-stop flights to Mexico. To help spread the word, the airport is having […]

Meeting Aviation Pioneer Jean Batten in Rotorua, New Zealand

10/20/09
Earlier this week, my short flight from New Zealand’s Rotorua Regional Airport to Auckland was canceled, so I ended up stuck at that tiny airport for a while. Good thing.  The delay gave me a chance to look around.  In addition to finding more than a half-dozen giant statues, I was able to learn a […]
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