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Artist Remixes "If You See Something, Say Something" Posters in NYC Subway
The very subtly tweaked posters encourage riders to "stay aware, not afraid."
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Data-Driven Music for the Disharmony of New York's Income Inequality
As the 2 train travels from Brooklyn through Manhattan up to the Bronx, it journeys along 49 stations of neighborhoods as varied as Flatbush, the Financial District, and Wakefield.
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NYPD Crackdown Has Subway Performers Risking Jail Time
Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that arrests on New York's subways were up 300% over 2013, the result of police commissioner Bill Bratton's zealous focus on the transit system as part of his approach to policing the city.
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Why Won't the MTA Allow This Artist to Make Art? [UPDATE]
One February evening, Brooklyn-based artist Enrico Miguel Thomas carried his drawing board a few paces away from where he had been illustrating from a counter in Grand Central — leaving behind a bag full of markers and a folded-up easel. After a brief moment of gathering the necessary detail on his
Opinion
The Man Who Led 1990s Art Censorship Scandal Is Running for NYC Mayor
The name Joseph J. Lhota may not be a household one (yet), but the current Republican mayoral candidate has done a lot in his time in New York City politics. Art worlders may remember him as the man who led the Giuliani administration's push to bully the Brooklyn Museum into censoring an artwork fro
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MTA Rejects Advertising for Looking Too Much Like Graffiti
The Museum of Modern Art may be one step closer to recognizing graffiti as a legitimate art form, but New York City is not. Writer Adam Mansbach, who took part in last week's "Writers and Writers" event at MoMA, has a post on the Awl about being denied subway advertising space that he was prepared t
Opinion
A New, Even More Graphic Anti-Islamic Subway Ad
Remember that subway poster that compared Muslims to savages and called for supporting Israel in order to "defeat Jihad"? The group behind that sloganeering, the American Defense Freedom Initiative (AFDI), is back with a second, even more inflammatory ad that the MTA is explicitly disavowing.
Opinion
A Subway Platform Becomes a Front Porch
I've always enjoyed riding the subway impossible distances — out to Coney Island, say, or the Far Rockaways — largely because the cityscape and the scenery change so much along the way. Traveling out to the ends of various lines transports you away from the New York City you know.
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New York MTA to Roll Out a Public Art App
LOS ANGELES — The New York subway has always featured a host of great public art. From Tom Otterness's famous figurines causing mischief at 14th Street and Eighth Avenue to the performers at Union Square and Times Square, the MTA'a Arts for Transit program provides a welcome respite from the usual g