Photos of unmistakable New York buildings - the green-glass façade of the U.N. On the way in, you move through a lofty corridor where sunlight illuminates Sabine Hornig’s translucent window installation, La Guardia Vistas. The art starts immediately as you walk from the parking garage into Terminal B’s pre-security atrium. ![]() But also, from the passenger’s perspective, it feels like somebody up there actually cares. The architects of LGA’s new public art program mostly sidestepped the twin traps of blandness and kitsch, demonstrating a seriousness that reflects the importance of art (and artists) to the city’s identity. The other city airport offers a perfect example: the New York–themed “ Selfie Station” that JFK revealed last year in Terminal 4, a booth that invited visitors to take selfies with shopping carts full of “Thank You” grocery bags as if lugging around suburban-style carts were a quintessentially New York activity. But mostly, we use “airport art” as a pejorative. There are a few exceptions, like Chicago’s O’Hare airport, home to Michael Hayden’s iconic neon installation, which turns a claustrophobic walkway into a giant kaleidoscope, and SFO, which has 34 employees to oversee its museum-quality collection. This is perhaps why so many might recall the art in airports, if they can recall it all, as bland corporate décor or maddeningly literal, like the giant flamingo in the Tampa airport or the monumental blues guitars in Austin. Most airports don’t have anyone with an M.F.A. Boasting a budget of over $22 million dedicated to art alone, the LGA renovation is one phase in a larger $30 billion revamp of New York’s three commercial airports, projected to finish in 2030. ![]() It’s one of the many large-scale artworks commissioned for LGA’s two new terminals as part of its public art program, which is overseen by curators from the the Public Art Fund in Terminal B and the Queens Museum in Terminal C. Now, when you get out of the taxi and roll your luggage into Terminal B’s gloriously lit, high-ceilinged baggage area, your vision is flooded by artist Laura Owens’s 500-foot mosaic wall, I □ NY, a periwinkle sky dotted with cumulus clouds and pixelated emoji images of New York icons: a pizza slice, the Cyclone, the sign from the Stonewall Inn. The baggage areas suffered from low ceilings and creepy fluorescent lighting the floors and surfaces were built from cheap industrial materials that recalled midtown cubicles the cramped footprint and poor crowd control made you feel like a turkey marching to slaughter. So, unlike those specifically made for waxing brows, they're rectangles you'll have to snip into complementary "brow" shapes if you want to achieve sharper angles.Until last year, traveling through La Guardia Airport was a deeply undignified experience. This brings up the first important note to keep in mind with Flamingo's face kit - it includes no-heat wax strips. I say once, because Flamingo's $9.99 Face Wax Kit gives you everything you need in order to groom, well, anywhere on your face. While most shoppers would've left their brows in the capable hands of professionals, I took it upon myself to master the stubborn, quick-growing patches of hair that once dominated a fair share of my forehead. Since first realizing back in college that with great brows comes great responsibility, I've tried my hand at tweezing, snipping, and microwaving (jars of wax, that is). ![]() My review of Flamingo's Face Wax Kit never altered since the first time I tried it out - it's the best one I've ever been lucky enough to use on my face.Īnd I've sampled my way through quite a few. The most important new addition, though, proved to be its wax strips. Looking back, I can track how each one slowly infiltrated my own body-care routine: I used up the entire bottle of body lotion and swapped out my single-use razor for Flamingo's straight away (the brand offers four-cartridge packs for only $8.99). ![]() Way, way back in 2018 - basically an eon ago, in quarantine time - the hair-removal brand Flamingo sent me a handful of its products shortly after it launched.
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