Delta Air Lines’s rebuilt Terminal C, expected to open this spring as one of the last big features of La Guardia Airport’s $8 billion transformation, will be defined by six new large-scale, site-specific permanent artworks.
“We want public art to be a significant part of the appeal, inspiration and sense of place at a major new civic facility,” said Rick Cotton, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the airport.
The Port Authority, together with Gov. Kathy Hochul and Delta Air Lines, has partnered with the Queens Museum to commission Mariam Ghani, Rashid Johnson, Aliza Nisenbaum, Virginia Overton, Ronny Quevedo and Fred Wilson — all New York-based artists — to create installations throughout the arrivals and departures hall and associated concourse. The overall budget for Terminal C’s art program is $12 million.
“Delta really wanted us to think about Queens, the most diverse county in the U.S., and find a way to reflect that,” said Sally Tallant, the president of the Queens Museum, a close neighbor to the airport. Tallant’s team guided the selection of the six artists, chosen from an initial pool of several dozen.
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