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New art exhibit at LAX

06/19/09
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 […]

More about the Burning Man exhibit at Reno-Tahoe International Airport

06/15/09
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 […]

Burning Man exhibit, free Wi-Fi and free local calls at Reno Airport

06/13/09
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; […]

New (renewed) murals coming to Miami Airport

06/10/09
If you traveled through JFK on American Airlines anytime after 1960 and anytime before the airline demolished it’s old terminal in order to build it’s swanky new one, then you may recognize the mural in this photo: Brazilian artist Carybé painted two murals, each more than 50 feet long, directly onto the terminal walls back […]

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport: for the birds

06/03/09
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 […]
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