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Fresh public art at LAX TBIT

07/26/15

Three new – hard to miss – public art pieces are fully installed in the Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) at Los Angeles International Airport. Bell Tower, above, by Mark Bradford, is on the mezzanine level of the terminal’s Departures Hall, and is suspended from a skylight above the TSA security screening area. The artist →

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Travel Tidbits: airports offer art, history & music

07/09/15

Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport has a new piece of art – a kinetic work by Tim Prentice called Slalom in the baggage claim area. The piece includes a gently undulating ribbon of reflective kinetic elements that float overhead and weave through the building’s support columns and will create an “ever-changing sequence of varied and →

Just Plane Fun returns to PHL Airport

07/07/15

Philadelphia International Airport has brought back its popular “Just Plane Fun” series of summertime customer appreciation events ranging from product demonstrations and live music to make-overs and a variety of events with prizes. The schedule changes weekly, but this week’s events include beauty makeovers and skin consultations for men and women – along with free →

Critters at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport

06/09/15

A new critter-filled exhibition titled “Creature Feature” is on display at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in the Terminal 4 gallery, on level 3. The exhibition feature paintings and sculptures of strange species and curious critters – most seemingly friendly – by six Arizona artists that have taken their inspiration from the natural world. →

Fresh art at Boston Logan Int’l Airport

06/04/15

There’s a new aviation-themed piece of public art in the United Airlines Terminal B at Boston Logan International Airport. Created by Jacob Kulin and called “Flyby,” the sculpture pays homage to flight and themes of movement and is 18 feet tall and 26 feet long. It’s made of anodized aluminum, powder coated steel, stainless steel →

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Toy exhibit at Austin Airport

05/27/15

A great selection of 20th century dolls and toys, including cast metal figures, wind-ups, electric trains and action figures from the (yet to open) Austin Toy Museum are on display in the east and west food courts at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. There’s a Kewpie doll from 1925, a Lionel streamlined steam locomotive with tender from →

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Treat for Pearl Jam fans at Sea-Tac Airport

05/27/15

There’s a treat in store for fans of the Seattle-born band Pearl Jam at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. An exhibit of Pearl Jam’s classic and now-historical poster art opens today at SEA, with 85 posters made over the years by more 30 artists including the Ames Bros., Brad Klausen, Munk One, Ward Sutton, and others. PUSH →

Does PIT Airport need a robot repair shop?

05/21/15

A kickstarter crowd funding campaign is underway to bring a robot repair shop to Pittsburgh International Airport. It’s not to help out all the PIT passengers who break their robots in transit. It’s to give a new home to a popular public art installation that was once in downtown Pittsburgh. Toby Atticus Fraley’s original Robot →

Monsters move in to SFO Airport

05/19/15

The newest offering from the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport is an exhibition about monsters. Not the kind that live under the bed, but the monsters made famous by Universal Pictures, which pretty much invented the monster movie genre in 1923 with the Hunchback of Notre Dame and the Phantom of the Opera, →

Fresh art at Miami International Airport

05/12/15

Miami International Airport and Agencia EFE, the world’s largest Spanish-language news agency, are presenting an exhibition of 30 images by EFE photographers from the last decade titled Latin America: Celebrating the Joy of Life (Latinoamérica: Fiestas Populares, Tradición y Fiestas). The exhibition, located pre-security on the departures level between MIA’s North and Central terminals, celebrates →

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