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Marvelous mosaics in Long Beach Airport

12/01/12

On Wednesday, December 5th, California’s Long Beach Airport (LGB) will unveil an expanded and upgraded passenger concourse in its Art Deco style terminal building, complete with a garden court and new local retail outlets and eateries. Of special interest are the Works Progress Administration (WPA) mosaics by Grace Clements that were (re)discovered when the maintenance →

Travel Tidbits: Power, art and blades

11/22/12

Alaska Airlines has installed 200 extra electrical outlets/USB ports at its gates in Anchorage, Portland and Seattle to match the power outlets in its gate areas in Terminal 6 at Los Angeles International Airport and at Sacramento, San Francisco and San Jose airports. Portland International Airport has a new printmaking exhibit titled “Cut & Print” →

Fresh art at Dulles and Reagan National Airports

11/10/12

If you’re traveling through an airport in the Washington, D.C. area soon, here are two new art exhibits to seek out. Through April 30, 2013 at Dulles International Airport, the “America!” exhibit focuses on panoramic landscape scenes from around the nation taken by members of the American Society of Photographers. Look for it in the →

Beer bottle wall at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport

10/16/12

How many bottles of beer are on the wall at the new St. Louis Brewmasters Tap Room in Terminal 2 (Concourse E) at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport? No one is saying just yet, but you can count them for yourself while waiting for a flight and drinking beers from local, regional and national breweries →

Travel tidbits: fresh art at Madison, Wisconsin’s Dane County Airport

10/13/12

To celebrate the artists of the Wisconsin Arts Board’s Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program, the Dane County Regional Airport(MSN) in Madison, WI is hosting “Wisconsin Folks: Masters of Tradition,” an exhibition that showcases the talents and stories of more than two dozen artists and their cultural heritages; from now through March 31, 2012. →

New Orleans Int’l Airport restoring classic jazz mural

09/29/12

If you’ve been to New Orleans, perhaps you’ve seen this large mural in what’s called the Parabola Lobby at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY). Titled “Louis Armstrong and his Heavenly All-Star Band – What you Loose on Earth Shall Be Loosed in Heaven,” the mural is 28 feet by 41 feet and was →

Museum Monday: Louise Nevelson sculptures at airports

09/24/12

For years, this work by Louise Nevelson titled “Night Flight 1” has been on display at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The work used to be in a very public part of the terminal but, while still accessible, is now located in the lobby area of the airport’s conference center on the south mezzanine. Now another airport →

Grizzlies, Oilers and more: fresh art at Edmonton International Airport

09/17/12

As part of its 2012 expansion project, Canada’s Edmonton International Airport (EIA) has installed some fun, fresh art and a wide variety of new food and retail outlets, including a Belgian Beer Café. Four new art displays, include an ensemble of wood, stone, glass and metalwork sculptures by seven members of the Alberta Craft →

Fun, fab blue jean advertising art at SFO Museum

09/12/12

The SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport has a fun, fab new exhibit featuring advertising used to promote blue jeans from Levi Strauss & Co. as early as 1873. From Art Nouveau to Pop Day-Glo: Levi Strauss Advertising As Art features art and ephemera from the company’s archives, including catalog covers, salesman’s flyers, calendars →

Look down – and around – at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport

09/10/12

Next time you’re at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport look down – and around. The airport has thirty works of art that are part of the building, including 10 floor medallions on the concourse. The one above, titled “Flight,” is by Michele Oka Doner and, like the other floor medallions, may be hard to see →

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