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Tied up at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport

02/23/13

The bolo tie is the official state tie of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas (didn’t know states had official ties, did ya?) and from now through June there’s an exhibition of more than 250 vintage and contemporary bolo ties at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Bolo ties became popular in the 1940s and were a →

Southwest Florida Int’l Airport gets major artwork

02/12/13

An intriguing, unusual and important sculpture by noted artist Louise Nevelson has been moved from Florida’s Naples Museum of Art to the Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW) in Ft. Myers. The giant sculpture, Nevelson’s last major work, is called Dawn’s Forest, and is a seven piece, all-white, abstract work made of balsa plywood. The work →

Comic strip “Nancy” celebrated at Nashville Int’l Airport

02/10/13

On February 13, Nashville International Airport (BNA) will celebrate 80 years of of the comic strip “Nancy” with a new exhibit called Nancy Loves Nashville. The exhibit will feature 62 Nancy illustrations created by Nashville, Tenn., resident Guy Gilchrist, a singer-songwriter, author and artist who took over the classic newspaper comic strip in 1995. While →

More ways to celebrate the presidential inauguration – at the airport

01/19/13

If you’re headed to Washington D.C. this weekend – or anytime between now and February 28, 2013, you can see an art exhibit commemorating the presidential inauguration at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. “Hail to the Chiefs: Portraits of United States Presidents and First Ladies,” was created by Morgan Monceaux, who used oil and acrylic →

Fresh art – you can sit on – at Anchorage International Airport

01/16/13

Ron Baron created some cool bronze, baggage-themed sculpture for the permanent art program at Indianapolis International Airport. Now Baron has a set of six new bronze sculptures in Terminal B at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport that include objects he collected during a trip to Alaska. Like the sculptures at the Indianapolis Airport, the →

Fresh art at San Francisco International Airport

12/27/12

A new exhibition at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) features a selection of ninth- to eighteenth-century ceramics from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. On their own, these pieces are lovely. But notes from the SFO Museum explain how these pieces also tell the story of how “the exchange of ceramics, an important trade →

Art made of coffee filters at LAX Airport

12/21/12

Drink up! A new art installation at Los Angeles International Airport is made out of used coffee filters and will be on view in the art display case in the Customs Hall of Tom Bradley International Terminal through March 2013. The work is titled Passage and is by Los Angeles-based artists Sophia Allison and Leanne →

Bridge art coming to Pittsburgh Airport

12/18/12

A intriguing piece of public art, Glenn Kaino’s Arch, will soon be on display inside Pittsburgh International Airport, most likely in the Landside Terminal. The work is a transformer/robot made up of pieces that look like Pittsburgh’s bridges and was originally located in Downtown Pittsburgh’s Cultural District, evidently as a temporary installation celebrating the city’s →

Photo art at LAX celebrates Hollywood’s past and present

12/15/12

Passing through LAX this holiday season? If so, take a moment to check out the exhibition of photographs documenting Hollywood’s past and present. The exhibit, in the Terminal 3 arrival corridor, features large-format Polaroid images depicting pre-World War II era landmarks of Los Angeles and portraits of over fifty Hollywood celebrities. Put together by guest →

Masking tape art at Portland International Airport

12/02/12

It looks like it might be painted on the wall, but Damien Gilley’s ‘Skywalker’, on display at Portland International Airport for the next year, is actually a masking tape creation portraying aiport skybridges. Look for it on Concourse A. Gilley’s temporary exhibit is on display at PDX for one year. →

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