New York’s powerhouse art institutions are teaming up to give travelers a welcome like no other. As part of the $4.2 billion redevelopment of John F. Kennedy Airport’s Terminal 6’s, a new list of names have joined Port Authority and JFK Millennium Partners’ $22 million USD public art initiative, which will transform the arrivals corridor into a miniature New York arts district.
The project brings together four of the city’s most celebrated cultural establishments — the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts — each contributing major installations drawn from their collection and creative partnerships.
Highlights include a new project from MoMA in collaboration with Yoko Ono, expanding on her 2019 installation Peace is Power; while the Lincoln Center is expected to contribute a 140-foot mural capturing the breadth of its music, theater, dance and opera programming. The Met is readying a range of works, with each representing one of its 17 curatorial collections spanning 5,000 years of art.
Funded by JFK Millennium Partners, the consortium behind LaGuardia’s art transformation, the initiative will also feature 19 permanent site-specific works curated by Public Art Fund, alongside rotating presentations of local talent organized by Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. In total, contributions from 18 New York–based and international artists, including Barbara Kruger, Charles Gaines, Eddie Martinez, Laure Prouvost and Haegue Yang.
“Thanks to the collaboration with four of New York’s premier cultural institutions, Terminal 6 will offer arriving visitors from around the world a unique New York experience before they leave the terminal,” said Rick Cotton, Port Authority’s executive director, in a statement.
