Some gets trashed, some gets stored, some gets re-sited in the new terminal.
The old Pittsburgh airport had a huge Calder Mobile- they moved that to the new terminal.
Some art is not made to last, and crumbles when its removed.
Some art is out of fashion, and nobody wants it.
Some art is worth WAAAY more than it was when it was installed- there is a Romare Bearden mural that cost $90,000, and was recently appraised for $15 Million- they may remove it just because its now too expensive to insure.
"Good"?
depends on who made it, and how popular they are now.
Tastes change.
Some of the stuff, like the one you photographed, shouldn't be called art but rather just adornment. When it no longer adorns, then it gets recycled, or whatever
I like it. It took me a while to catch the scale of it -- it's HUGE. Look at the newspaper boxes. I think I'd like it better if it was about three feet across.
The only airport art I ever really notice is that magician mural at Seatac, and only because it is the most horrible thing I've ever seen. It actually shrinks my will to live.
I like it because I'm trying to picture it on a plain surface—those vertical lines and phones and news boxes and random hallway crap really kinda ruin the whole feel of the thing. That giant wall almost isn't big enough for it—and Dan's right, a dark wall would really make this thing... um (first person to say "pop" gets kicked in the Middlebrook.)
I'm sure the Winnipeg airport really gives a shit though.
Heyyyy Winnipeg! I love that mural. It's my lifelong airport friend. Just a beautiful piece of public art. Whatever replaces it will undoubtedly be medicocre. Winnipeg, ironically for a city known for Carol Shields, Guy Maddin and sure, Marcel Dzama, weirdly hates art. I'll never, ever forget how much Winnipeg hates art. Listen to the Weakerthans song "One Great City"--sums up the sentiment.
Actually, "public art" which means art paid for by the public, doesnt get sold at auctions.
There are contracts, ya know- and the contracts give the artist right of first refusal, and often other specific rights as well, regarding what is called in the trade "deacessioning".
Private companies, like some hospitals, are free to dispose of their property, including their art, however they wish- just like BOA did recently with the Sam Francis mural in downtown Seattle.
As for Fnarf- It is perfectly fine with me if you trade your will to live with poor deceased Michael Fajans, who deserves to be here, and didnt make his so called "reputation" making snarky and ignorant comments.
I miss Michael- and I wouldn miss your "erudition" much at all.
Eli Bornstein’s Structurist Relief In Fifteen Parts, which the U of M covets.
KEN GIGLIOTTI / FREE PRESS ARCHIVES Enlarge Image
Eli Bornstein’s Structurist Relief In Fifteen Parts, which the U of M covets.
The University of Manitoba wants to acquire the massive piece of public art adorning the south end of Richardson International Airport -- but the companion work at the north end of the doomed terminal still needs a home.
The U of M is talking with the Winnipeg Airports Authority about obtaining Structurist Relief In Fifteen Parts, one of the two largest artworks commissioned for what was originally Winnipeg International Airport in the 1960s.
John Graham’s Northern Lights, which has no interested parties so far.
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John Graham’s Northern Lights, which has no interested parties so far. (KEN GIGLIOTTI / FREE PRESS ARCHIVES)
Wanted:
Good home for giant artwork. Must be at least two storeys tall.
Appreciation of modernism an asset.
Call the Winnipeg Airports Authority at 987-9400.
The Eli Bornstein work, a series of white panels covered in metal cubes, could find a home at the university after the existing Richardson passenger terminal closes later this year, U of M spokeswoman Leah Janzen confirmed Tuesday.
But John Graham's Northern Lights, the aluminum-and-plexiglass mosaic at the north end of the passenger terminal, has no potential suitor, raising the prospect it could be destroyed when the 46-year-old structure that houses it is demolished.
The Winnipeg Airports Authority plans to knock down the airport's existing glass-and-steel passenger terminal, which architects consider a rare example of mid-20th-century modern design, when the airport's new passenger terminal opens later this year. The airport is in the midst of a $672-million expansion that includes a passenger terminal designed by Cesar Pelli, whose credits include the Petronas Towers in Malaysia.
The Winnipeg Airports Authority decided to demolish the existing terminal after a request for proposals to reuse the building failed to yield a single plan. Last year, the WAA cancelled plans to assess the historic and artistic value of the terminal after the private corporation learned it was not subject to rules that require federally owned buildings to undergo heritage assessments.
The only proposal for the property is a Western Canada Aviation Museum plan to build itself a new home on the site of the former terminal.
The Heritage Canada Foundation, an Ottawa-based non-profit group, has been lobbying Transport Canada to save the terminal and its artwork, to no avail.
"We continue to advocate finding an adaptive reuse for the terminal," executive director Natalie Bull said Tuesday. "It's really one big art installation. The terminal and the art are inseparable. The art will lessen in value if it's removed from its context."
No plans have been made for the two large murals at either end of the terminal, said WAA spokeswoman Christine Alongi, who declined to comment on the U of M's interest in the Bornstein piece.
The airports authority is trying to find some means of reusing building materials from the existing terminal, she said. No demolition plans have been filed with the City of Winnipeg, a property department spokeswoman confirmed.
The Richardson passenger terminal is the most significant modernist building facing demolition in Winnipeg, said Bull, whose organization placed the structure on a top-10 list of endangered Canadian buildings in 2008.
The brutalist-style Public Safety Building on Princess Street could also face the wrecking ball after the Winnipeg Police Service moves into its new home on Graham Avenue later this decade.
Winnipeg, which boasts an unusual collection of architecturally significant modernist buildings, must broaden its notion of what constitutes heritage buildings, Bull said.
According to her organization, the only modernist buildings to enjoy some level of heritage protection in this city are downtown's Winnipeg Clinic and the Manitoba Theatre Centre in the East Exchange.
@23 - that'd be interesting. Dan was at the UofM last time (I made time off work for it). Maybe you could trade another showing for it if that happens.
The rest of the 25 are here:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainmen….
The old Pittsburgh airport had a huge Calder Mobile- they moved that to the new terminal.
Some art is not made to last, and crumbles when its removed.
Some art is out of fashion, and nobody wants it.
Some art is worth WAAAY more than it was when it was installed- there is a Romare Bearden mural that cost $90,000, and was recently appraised for $15 Million- they may remove it just because its now too expensive to insure.
"Good"?
depends on who made it, and how popular they are now.
Tastes change.
http://www.portseattle.org/seatac/art/on…
The only airport art I ever really notice is that magician mural at Seatac, and only because it is the most horrible thing I've ever seen. It actually shrinks my will to live.
http://www.michaelfajans.com/highwire.as…
I'm sure the Winnipeg airport really gives a shit though.
Is it art? Sure. Why not?
There are contracts, ya know- and the contracts give the artist right of first refusal, and often other specific rights as well, regarding what is called in the trade "deacessioning".
Private companies, like some hospitals, are free to dispose of their property, including their art, however they wish- just like BOA did recently with the Sam Francis mural in downtown Seattle.
As for Fnarf- It is perfectly fine with me if you trade your will to live with poor deceased Michael Fajans, who deserves to be here, and didnt make his so called "reputation" making snarky and ignorant comments.
I miss Michael- and I wouldn miss your "erudition" much at all.
Eli Bornstein’s Structurist Relief In Fifteen Parts, which the U of M covets.
KEN GIGLIOTTI / FREE PRESS ARCHIVES Enlarge Image
Eli Bornstein’s Structurist Relief In Fifteen Parts, which the U of M covets.
The University of Manitoba wants to acquire the massive piece of public art adorning the south end of Richardson International Airport -- but the companion work at the north end of the doomed terminal still needs a home.
The U of M is talking with the Winnipeg Airports Authority about obtaining Structurist Relief In Fifteen Parts, one of the two largest artworks commissioned for what was originally Winnipeg International Airport in the 1960s.
John Graham’s Northern Lights, which has no interested parties so far.
Enlarge Image
John Graham’s Northern Lights, which has no interested parties so far. (KEN GIGLIOTTI / FREE PRESS ARCHIVES)
Wanted:
Good home for giant artwork. Must be at least two storeys tall.
Appreciation of modernism an asset.
Call the Winnipeg Airports Authority at 987-9400.
The Eli Bornstein work, a series of white panels covered in metal cubes, could find a home at the university after the existing Richardson passenger terminal closes later this year, U of M spokeswoman Leah Janzen confirmed Tuesday.
But John Graham's Northern Lights, the aluminum-and-plexiglass mosaic at the north end of the passenger terminal, has no potential suitor, raising the prospect it could be destroyed when the 46-year-old structure that houses it is demolished.
The Winnipeg Airports Authority plans to knock down the airport's existing glass-and-steel passenger terminal, which architects consider a rare example of mid-20th-century modern design, when the airport's new passenger terminal opens later this year. The airport is in the midst of a $672-million expansion that includes a passenger terminal designed by Cesar Pelli, whose credits include the Petronas Towers in Malaysia.
The Winnipeg Airports Authority decided to demolish the existing terminal after a request for proposals to reuse the building failed to yield a single plan. Last year, the WAA cancelled plans to assess the historic and artistic value of the terminal after the private corporation learned it was not subject to rules that require federally owned buildings to undergo heritage assessments.
The only proposal for the property is a Western Canada Aviation Museum plan to build itself a new home on the site of the former terminal.
The Heritage Canada Foundation, an Ottawa-based non-profit group, has been lobbying Transport Canada to save the terminal and its artwork, to no avail.
"We continue to advocate finding an adaptive reuse for the terminal," executive director Natalie Bull said Tuesday. "It's really one big art installation. The terminal and the art are inseparable. The art will lessen in value if it's removed from its context."
No plans have been made for the two large murals at either end of the terminal, said WAA spokeswoman Christine Alongi, who declined to comment on the U of M's interest in the Bornstein piece.
The airports authority is trying to find some means of reusing building materials from the existing terminal, she said. No demolition plans have been filed with the City of Winnipeg, a property department spokeswoman confirmed.
The Richardson passenger terminal is the most significant modernist building facing demolition in Winnipeg, said Bull, whose organization placed the structure on a top-10 list of endangered Canadian buildings in 2008.
The brutalist-style Public Safety Building on Princess Street could also face the wrecking ball after the Winnipeg Police Service moves into its new home on Graham Avenue later this decade.
Winnipeg, which boasts an unusual collection of architecturally significant modernist buildings, must broaden its notion of what constitutes heritage buildings, Bull said.
According to her organization, the only modernist buildings to enjoy some level of heritage protection in this city are downtown's Winnipeg Clinic and the Manitoba Theatre Centre in the East Exchange.