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24 Exceptional Subway Artworks to See in NYC
You don’t need to visit a gallery or museum to experience the works of well-known artists, from Romare Bearden in the Bronx to Katherine Bradford in Manhattan.
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Craving Spring? Head to the 163rd Street Subway Stop in Washington Heights
A newly installed artwork at the 163rd Street MTA station vividly depicts flora from the Northeast and the Caribbean.
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From Chuck Close to Sarah Sze, a Ride Through the Art of the Second Avenue Subway
New York's Second Avenue Subway opened on January 1 after almost a century of planning, with new art installations by Chuck Close, Sarah Sze, Vik Muniz, and Jean Shin.
Books
A New Guide to New York's Subterranean Art
There are over 250 art projects lodged in the transit infrastructure of New York City. Some are garish or grand mosaics that cover whole subway tunnels, others you might walk by for years without recognition. A new book compiles them in a guide to city's subterranean galleries.
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New Subway Art Installation Brings the Home into the Commute
Three stations on the M subway line in Ridgewood, Queens now have permanent art installations that bring moments of home into the commute.
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The Persistence of Time at Grand Central Terminal
For meditations on time, there are few places more frenetic with marking the seconds than Grand Central Terminal. The hundreds of thousands of people that pass through the station each day create a constant motion around the gold clock that sits calmly ticking away the moments in the center of the G
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Nick Cave’s Equine Exercise in Puppet Magic
I first learned about Nick Cave's work in an undergraduate puppetry class. Puppetry, like architecture and some other disciplines, is the synthesis of a myriad of techniques both artistic and mechanical, attracting sculptors, dancers, and engineers in equal number. Similarly, Cave's 30-strong herd o