For most New Yorkers, performers on the subway must be endured as part of our daily commutes. However, imagine my surprise this past weekend as I looked up from a conversation with my Tetris-engrossed ...
A New York artist has managed to bring joy to the subway system with her portraits of passengers. She's publishing a book to teach others how to do the same. Eian Kantor Here’s one commuter story with ...
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In the early part of 2014, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority revealed that it would liven up stations along the first phase of the Second Avenue Subway line with tons of public art. Now less ...
A preview presentation of New York’s newest public art installation, the Second Avenue Subway, was held yesterday at the Museum of Modern Art. On hand to give us a sneak peek of this ambitious ...
Working alongside the MTA architecture team in bringing beauty and inspiration into new Second Avenue Subway line is MTA’s Arts for Transit and Urban Design department, led by artist and curator ...
A young portrait artist from the South Bronx has been capturing New Yorkers on the subway for years and has now gone viral for his COVID sketches of people wearing their masks on the subway. News 12 ...
An artist who used his talent to cope with the coronavirus pandemic is now documenting history with his art for a new series he’s called the “Covid mask subway drawings.” Every day for almost a month, ...