Artist Qinmin Liu thinks flying is a pain in the easel.
So she’s created her own airline for artists that will fly only to art events — such as Art Basel in Miami Beach, its maiden destination. She’s calling her art project-business Angelhaha Airline.
On Liu’s Angelhaha Airline website, she says, “Angelhaha pursues a positive spirit: Happiness is ahead of you.”
Its slogan, “Angelhaha Airline promises to only fly to art,” tells at least part of the story: Angelhaha Airline will fly one-way only to art events and has just nine seats.
Presumably, the artists who take Liu up on her offer can book passage home with the non-artisan on American, United, Delta and so forth.
In addition to New York-Miami for Basel on Dec. 6, Angelhaha Airline lists flights to San Francisco for Untitled in January, New York’s Armory Show in March, and Art Basel in Hong Kong in March and Switzerland in June.
“I hate traveling,” Liu told ArtNet News. “Every time I go back home, I spend 14 hours in an airplane, and I’m always thinking about their service — the food, the movies, the quality of attendants, and even the smell, and wondering: Is there something I can do about this?”
So how much is all of this going to cost?
Liu told ArtNet that flights for most destinations will run from $300 to $3,000.
And she says that not only is the art-airline concept her own, but she’s also serving as flight attendant, and the food, drinks, other amenities and smell will be up to her artistic standards.