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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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” […]
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 […]