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Classic games of chance at SFO International Airport

12/02/09

If Lady Luck is on your side, then your next plane trip will include a long layover at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Thanks to the San Francisco Airport Museums program, SFO always has about two dozen temporary and permanent exhibitions on display to keep travelers entertained. Two of the current shows are thematically linked →

Souvenir Sunday: space stuff from Kona International Airport

11/29/09

The Kona International Airport (KOA), on Hawaii (The Big Island), is charming, but really very tiny. There are ten gates between two terminals and the waiting areas are outside, in small courtyards that offer limited shade. Amenity-wise, there’s not much. Still, you’ll want to arrive at the airport early enough to spend some time at →

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 →

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 →

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Tuscon International Airport’s new art brochure

10/28/09

From now through the end of December, 2009, the Center Gallery at Tucson International Airport (TUS) is featuring Lines.Space.Color, enamel paintings and sculpture by Tucson artist Steven Derks. The exhibit includes two of Derks’ steel sculptures made of items he’s rescued from junkyards and scrap metal bins and Gridspace (below) made of 52 12” by →

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Ancient Greek pots found at SFO airport

10/23/09

Stuck at SFO? Don’t forget that San Francisco International Airport is home to an accredited museum program and has more than 20 exhibits on view at any one time. So don’t just sit there: get some culture. Right now, there’s a new exhibition that includes 40 ceramic vessels from Ancient Greece and its colonies, as →

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Greetings from New Zealand’s Auckland Airport

10/22/09

First impressions are important, especially if you’re a city and you’d like folks who are just passing through to come back and stay awhile. So you’d think every city would want its airport – its front door – to be all pretty and nice. Like, say, Auckland Airport. Check out what greets visitors arriving on →

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 →

Changi Airport celebrates Deepavali with flowers

10/17/09

Deepavali – or The Festival of Lights – is celebrated by Hindus worldwide to mark the victory of good over evil. To commemorate the holiday, you’ll find more than a dozen live garden displays and floral sculptures throughout Singapore’s Changi Airport through October 25th. Here’s a sample of the installations: There are seven displays in →

Signature Art at Raleigh-Durham International Airport

10/16/09

Last year, when North Carolina’s Raleigh-Durham International Airport had an open house to let the public see the new Terminal 2 building, they asked everyone who stopped by to sign their name to a sheet of paper. Artist Dunne Dittman later took those signatures and turned them into a piece of art – Signature Art →

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