Angelo Brocato Neon Sign
New Orleans LA, 2007.
Eater has pretty pics with their post from May.
Airport Art
I came home from New England and Canada via the Philadelphia airport — they had a fair amount of art around, like these knitting-covered rocking chairs for the public to sit in at a terminal bank of windows
and this display of Charlotte Lindley Martin’s Rococo Revived:
Are the Joe Peragine ant sculptures, Brute Neighbors, back at the Atlanta airport? More pics from the artist’s site here.
Whitespace 814, an Atlanta gallery, is currently hosting Joe Peragine’s looped animation called “Funtown” about the Jersey shore after dark scene.
Artnet did a piece last year on airports with the best art and among those included, Sky’s the Limit (1987) by Michael Hayden at Chicago’s O’Hare, Chalchiuhtlicue (2020) by Marela Zacarías at Sea-Tac, Leap (2011) by Lawrence Argent at Sacramento Intl, and they give an honorable mention (but don’t mention the artist) to Learning How to Ride My Grandfather’s Bike, and as I Grab Hold of The Handlebar, the Bike Turned Into A Raging Bull at BHM — I need to take a peek the next time I’m in Terminal B but the title sounds like Lonnie Holley.
Not certain if these are currently at BHM, but in the past, I’ve seen
Earth, Wind, and Water: The Landscape of Alabama by Murray Johnston
and this Frank Fleming Fisherman, 1992
Artnet also referenced this NYT article, Ready When You Are, Terminal C Is Now an Art Destination at La Guardia.
“Airports are gateways to a region — travelers should know where they are,” said Rick Cotton, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates La Guardia. “Public art is at the core of that aspect of building a new civic structure.”
Large-scale permanent installations by Mariam Ghani, Rashid Johnson, Aliza Nisenbaum, Virginia Overton, Ronny Quevedo and Fred Wilson — all artists living and working in New York — are poised to become new city landmarks throughout the terminal.
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