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Dallas Love Field gets a piece of Dallas history

03/31/15

The impressive art-collection at Dallas Love Field Airport gets larger with the addition of an important stained glass window rescued from the demolition of an East Dallas church in the summer of 2013. According to the Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, the window is part of a historically-significant work by Dallas artist and teacher Octavio →

Art Deco on exhibit at SFO Airport

03/25/15

A new exhibition at San Francisco International Airport displays fashionable and everyday items that evoke the Art Deco era, from works by French sculptors to airline-shaped cocktail shakers and streamlined radios. Need a quick quick recap on Art Deco? The exhibition notes tell us that this design style popular in the 1920s and ’30s →

“Lagoon” art at MIA Airport

03/21/15

A new set of giant balloon sculptures by Florida artist Jason Hackenwerth is on display at Miami International Airport’s 4th floor South Terminal Gallery. Titled “Lagoon 2” (there was a previous installation) the five sculptures in the “balloon lagoon” are made with thousands interconnected balloons and are meant to evoke the vibrant colors of South →

Quilt & fiber art exhibit at Reno-Tahoe Int’l Airport

03/19/15

You can’t cozy up with them, but you can tour the quilts and fiber art on display in the depARTures gallery at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Created by the 150-member Carson Valley Quilt Guild, the work is on display through April 19, 2015. →

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eBoy pixorama of Miami International Airport

02/25/15

The Berlin-born pixel artist collective known as eBoy is known for their all-pixel creations, including incredibly-detailed ‘pixoramas’ of Tokyo, Paris, Rio and many other cities. Now they’ve given Miami International Airport the treatment. At 6 feet by 9 feet, the detailed pixorama of MIA airport is the group’s largest such work to date and, lucky →

Fresh art at John Wayne Airport

02/24/15

The new art exhibit at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California shares some ‘hidden treasures’ plucked from the art collections of five Orange County colleges and universities and is on display through August 2015 in the Vi Smith Gallery across from Gates 18-21. The airport’s art program presents intriguing, museum-quality exhibits on a regular →

Free digital magazine from Miami Int’l Airport

02/20/15

Here’s a nice free perk from Miami International Airport: a lovely e-magazine – in English and Spanish – that offers tips on dining, shipping and entertainment inside the airport and out in the community. You can view the digital magazine for free inside the airport on the airport Wi-Fi network (www.MIAConnex.com). or from anywhere else →

Art made from the roof of Lambert-St. Louis Int’l Airport

01/22/15

Here’s a great – and rare – way to get a work of art made from a piece of an airport. Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is offering limited edition prints made of reclaimed copper from the airport’s historic Terminal 1 roof. This one is my favorite: Three St. Louis presses – The Firecracker Press, Pele →

Fresh art at Miami International Airport

01/14/15

Next time you’re at Miami International Airport, look for Meltdown, a new art mural by Miami artist Jen Stark that creates a waterfall of oozing colors in the airport’s North Terminal on the third floor from the parking garage or the MIA Mover station. →

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/Art

Giant cuckoo clock for Portland Int’l Airport

12/19/14

A giant chainsaw-carved cuckoo clock is helping to keep Portland, Oregon – and its airport – weird. A project of Travel Portland and created for a winter tourism campaign, this cuckoo clock is 24-feet-tall, nine-and-a-half-feet wide and weighs in at 7000 pounds, making it the largest freestanding cuckoo clock in the United States. The impossible →

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