It is black and white, weighs 600 pounds and is 28 feet long and equally wide. And it will be impossible to miss at Pittsburgh International Airport’s new landside terminal.
“Pittsburgh,” the kinetic mobile by famed artist Alexander Calder that has dangled from ceilings in the region’s airport terminals, on and off, for almost 70 years, is being re-installed this month in the brand-new terminal’s atrium to serve as a both a gently waving welcome and farewell. First installed in 1959 over the rotunda of the Greater Pittsburgh Airport terminal that opened in 1952, the mobile spent some time at the Carnegie Museum of Art before moving to the current PIT terminal in 1992.
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Originally published: September 4, 2025
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