A new lounge at Newark Liberty International Airport is providing an artistic – -and kosher — respite for travelers to Israel who might be looking for more than just free Wi-Fi and contemporary furniture while they wait.
"Art & Lounge," in Newark's Terminal B, serves as place to relax but also a gallery for a rotation of Israeli artists, featuring installations curated by Lital Dotan and Eyal Perry, two artists from Tel Aviv who have made a life's practice of turning their homes into live exhibition spaces, and exhibition spaces into their home. (They now operate the Glasshouse Project in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which they describe as an "art-life-lab.")
The couple's first show at the Newark lounge, called "Window Seat," replaces the typical nonstop news broadcast on lounge televisions with a metaphorical airplane window, a video presentation of several landscapes created by four artists: Miriam Cabessa, Oded Hirsch, Shay Kun and Tom Pnini, who each contributed other works as well.
"In the frame of a house," the curators explained in a statement about the exhibition, "a window seat has romantic associations, as they are often identified with luxury of spare time."
In airplanes, they added, the window seat serves as a dimension of psychological space and in an airport terminal it is "a space of transition and restlessness, and manifests a state of in-between, which is why 'Window Seat' offers an invitation to stay, pause, reflect, before moving on to the next destination."
An assortment of healthy and kosher foods, picked by Shmulik Markus, a chef and the chief executive of Restotel, an Israeli hospitality and restaurant company, are also available to visitors, along with a selection of wine and beer.
El Al Airlines has been the first to make use of the lounge since it opened in November, offering free access to its premier passengers. But Luxury Lounges Ltd., the design firm that created the space, hopes to open it up to more travelers for a fee — around $35 — in the near future.
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