You never get a second chance to make a good first impression. Someone at New York's JFK airport has clearly taken that well-worn phrase to heart and enlisted some of the city's biggest artistic names for its multi-billion-dollar makeover.
Yoko Ono is among the artists whose work will greet international travelers arriving at the $4.2 billion Terminal 6 when it opens next year alongside installations from the American Museum of Natural History, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ono's work is a collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) inspired by her 2019 installation PEACE is POWER which was commissioned by the museum for its re-opening that year.
The Met has chosen images of objects, including a medieval tapestry and a Dior-designed outfit, from its huge collection to go on show, while the Lincoln Center is contributing a 140-foot mural featuring performers on stage and in the streets of New York and exhibits from the natural history museum will feature in a "tapestry of images from its halls".
The airport's arrivals plaza will feature 19 site-specific permanent installations, by artists including
Laure Prouvost, Kambui Olujimi and Charline von Heyl, as well as a rotating cast of work by local artists.