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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 […]

New art exhibit at John Wayne Airport (SNA)

05/27/09
A new exhibition at John Wayne Airport (SNA) in Orange County, California includes 56 paintings that became cover art for Westways, the magazine of the Automobile Club of Southern California.  The work includes California watercolor, Pop Art and most of the major movements of California art in the 20th century. (Maynard Dixon’s Clipper Ship) The […]

Airport fans: yes, there are some.

05/25/09
You meet all sorts of kindred souls here on the Internet -and on Twitter!  That’s where I crossed paths with Daniel Incandela who, like me, spends a lot of time in airports, on airplanes, and at museums. Incandela works at the Indianapolis Museum of Art as the Director of New Media and he pointed me […]

Earth to the Universe via Chicago O’Hare Airport

05/21/09
(JUPITER  –  Photo: Travis Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage), Chad Trujillo and the Gemini Altair Team, NOAO / AURA / NSF.) This is the International Year of Astronomy, recognizing the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s use of a telescope to study the heavens. So it’s appropriate that Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and the Alder Planetarium have teamed […]

Art and culture at LAX – and beyond

04/30/09
If you’re heading to or through Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) anytime before May 29th, 2009, seek out the photography exhibit by LA-based artist Marissa Roth in Terminal 1 (pre-security on  the arrivals level). The exhibition includes two separate photography series, “In Hollywood” and “Downtown Los Angeles: Inside-Out.”  Each series has 16 photos and explores […]
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