Arts in airports

Fresh airport art in Austin and Miami

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Convergence / Austin is a new site-responsive work at Austin – Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) by Austin-based artists, Beili Liu Studio.

The work spans 16 feet by 12 feet, includes 400 vertical strands holding 3,200 elements, and fills the high bay triangular area across from Gate 15 in the main AUS Barbara Jordan Terminal.


Quilt exhibit at MIA Airport

(Courtesy of MIA Galleries, Miami International Airport)

Curious Geometries is the newest art exhibition at the Gate D31 Gallery at Miami International Airport (MIA).

On display through March 9, 2026, the exhibition features large-scale, sewn and quilted artwork by local artist Regina Durante Jestrow, who uses repurposed fabrics from Miami and other locations.

Art Tour Of The New Kansas City International Airport (MCI)

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Courtesy Clark Weitz Clarkson.

When the new 1-million-square-foot terminal at Kansas City International Airport (MCI) officially opens on February 28, $5.6 million in newly commissioned art will be on display.

Here are images of some of the key pieces:

“Fountain (KCI)” by Leo Villareal

“Molten Swing” by Soo Sunny Park

Credit Clark Weitz Clarkson

“The Air Up There” by Nick Cave

Credit Clark Weitz Clarkson

“Ornithology” by Willie Cole

Credit Clark Weitz Clarkson

“Let The Music Take You” by George Rodriguez

Credit-Harriet Baskas”

“Wings” by John Balistreri

Courtesy of the artist

“Cloud Gazing” by SOFTlab

Credit – Clark Weitz Clarkson

Airports, airplanes & Alexander Calder

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Courtesy Calder Foundation

July 22 was artist Alexander Calder’s birthday, giving us an excuse to share some photos of his work in airports and on airplanes.

The photo above is of Calder in 1957 inspecting the installation of his work originally titled .125, after the gauge of the aluminum elements in Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport (then Idlewild Airport). The piece was later redubbed Flight.

Courtesy Library of Congress

Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) also has a work by Alexander Calder in its collection. This piece is titled, appropriately enough, Pittsburgh.

Courtesy Pittsburgh International Airport

Calder’s work also appeared on Braniff International Airways airplanes in the mid-1970s.

The first was a Douglas DC-8 known as Flying Colors of South America. The second was a Boeing 727-200 named Flying Colors of the United States.

Courtesy of the Calder Foundation

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To learn more about the airplanes Calder painted for Braniff, see this article from 2020 by Chris Sloan in Airways Magazine.