en ArtA Guide to Art in the MTA Network Rute East 105th Street, NYC Transit subway Michael Ingui Contents Page The founders of the New York City subway believed that every design element in the lines 3 – 4 system should show respect for our customers and enhance their experience of travel. 1 23 2 5 lines 5 As the century-old transportation network is restored and renewed, decorative elements 4 5 6 lines 6 – 7 of the past are preserved and protected even as contemporary art and design are intro- 7 ‡ line 8 duced. Old and new happily coexist. A C Elines 9 – 10 As you travel through the Metropolitan Transportation Authority network, you experience B D F V lines 11 – 12 a first-rate art museum of mosaic, terra cotta, bronze, glass, and mixed-media sculpture. J M Z lines 13 – 14 We invite you to discover and enjoy this diverse and beautiful collection of commissioned L line 15 public artwork installed throughout the region over the past two and a half decades. »0- ®0-∑0-lines 16 œ0line 17 Use this guide and its maps to discover the location of the art contained in this vast S42nd Street Shuttle 18 – 19 collection of work in the subway system of MTA New York City Transit, at many stations of SFranklin Avenue Shuttle 20 MTA Long Island Rail Road and MTA Metro-North Railroad, and at one site at MTA Bridges and MTA Long Island Rail Road 21 – 22 Tunnels. As you visit New York, or as part of your daily commute, stop and visit your MTA Metro-North Railroad 23 – 24 favorite Art en Route. MTA Bridges and Tunnels 25 MTA Subway Map 26 MTA Railroad Map 27 Cover: Times Square-42nd Street, NYC Transit subway Roy Lichtenstein, © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein 1 Since the 1980s, MTA Arts for Transit has commissioned public art that touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of city dwellers as well as national and international visitors. As the MTA rehabilitates the subway and commuter rail stations in New York City and its suburbs through its Capital Programs, it uses a portion of the funds for the installation of permanent works of art. Arts for Transit’s projects create visually unique links to neighborhoods with art that echoes the architectural history and design context of the individual stations. Both well-established and emerging artists contribute to a constantly growing collection of works that use the materials of the system–mosaic, ceramic, tile, bronze, steel, and glass. In addition to permanent art, the program encompasses Music Under New York, a Transit Poster Program, and the Lightbox Project, a series of photography exhibits. To learn more about Arts for Transit projects, visit http://www.mta.info/mta/aft. About This Guide Art en Route helps you view art throughout the MTA system. The sections are organ- ized by subway line, commuter rail stations, and MTA Bridges and Tunnels. This guide is updated periodically as new installations are completed. An asterisk * indicates that the project was not yet installed at the time of printing. (Up-to-date project information is always available on our website http://www.mta.info/mta/aft.) Art en Route includes a fold-out subway and railroad map with a comprehensive listing of all stations with artwork, located at the back of the guide. Enjoy! Above: 233rd Street, NYC Transit subway Skowmon Hastanan Left: Broadway, Long Island Rail Road Jean Shin 2 Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum 66th Street-Lincoln Center Arts for Transit Collaborative Nancy Spero 1 23 lines Nevins Street 2 3 4 5 Christopher Street-Sheridan 72nd Street 1 2 3 Anton van Dalen Square 1 Robert Hickman Crown Heights-Utica Avenue Work & Nature, 1997 Lee Brozgol and students from Laced Canopy, 2002 3 4 Porcelain enamel frieze on P.S. 41 Mosaic glass skylight in north Hugo Consuegra mezzanine walls The Greenwich Village control house Good Morning and Good Murals, 1994 Night, 2004 Clark Street 2 3 Ceramic mosaic on platform 86th Street1 Ceramic tiles on platform Ray Ring walls Grosvenor Neighborhood Clark Street Passage, 1987 House student muralists with walls, bronze medallions 34th Street-Penn Station in gates Terrazzo floor in lower Nitza Tufiño passageway 1 2 3 Westside Views, 1989 Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Elizabeth Grajales Ceramic tile on platform walls Museum 2 3 South Ferry 1 When the animals speak..., 1998 Arts for Transit Collaborative Doug & Mike Starn Ceramic mosaic on 3 platform 96th Street 1 2 3 New York City Architectural See it split, see it change, 2008 walls; handmade ceramic relief Sigi Moeslinger and Artifacts from the Collection of Glass, stone mosaic, and stain- tiles on 1 2 platform walls Masamichi Udagawa less steel on mezzanine walls (Antenna Design New York) the Brooklyn Museum, 2004 50th Street Terra cotta artifacts and glass 1 The Veil of Bloomingdale* Wall Street 2 3 mosaic on mezzanine and Liliana Porter Stainless steel sculpture stairway walls Harry Roseman Alice: The Way Out, 1994 suspended from control Subway Wall, 1990 Glass mosaic on platform walls house ceiling Grand Army Plaza 2 3 Bronze relief on wall in passageway to 60 Wall Street, 66th Street-Lincoln Central Park North 231st Street Felipe Galindo Jane Greengold Center Wings for the IRT: The sponsored by J.P. Morgan 1 (110th Street) 2 3 Irresistible Romance Nancy Spero Maren Hassinger Houston Street 1 of Travel, 1995 Artemis, Acrobats, Divas, Message from Malcolm, 1998 Bronze and terra cotta plaques Deborah Brown and Dancers, 2001 Glass mosaic on stairway walls on mezzanine walls Platform Diving, 1994 Glass and ceramic mosaic on and platform Glass mosaic on platform walls platform walls *to be installed 3 116th Street 2 3 135th Street 2 3 Vincent Smith Willie Birch Minton’s Playhouse (uptown), Harlem Timeline, 1995 The Movers and Shakers Glass mosaic on platform walls (downtown), 1999 Glass mosaic on 137th Street-City College 1 platform walls Steve Wood Fossils, 1988 116th Street-Columbia Bronze relief on platform walls Nevins Street Anton van Dalen University 1 Michelle Greene 191st Street 1 Railrider’s Throne, 1991 Raúl Colón 72nd Street Robert Hickman 135th Street Willie Birch Steel chair on downtown Primavera, 2003 platform Glass mosaic and faceted glass on stairway wall 125th Street 2 3 Faith Ringgold assisted by Dyckman Street 1 Tim Tait Designs Wopo Holup Flying Home: Harlem Heroes Flight, 1991 and Heroines (Downtown and Ceramic relief on Uptown), 1996 mezzanine walls Glass mosaic on 231st Street platform walls 1 Felipe Galindo Magic Realism in Kingsbridge, 2008 Faceted glass in platform Above: South Ferry windscreens Doug & Mike Starn 4 2 5 lines Jackson Avenue 2 5 Freeman Street 2 5 Allerton Avenue 2 5 225th Street2 5 George Crespo Daniel Hauben Michele Brody Nicky Enright Brooklyn College-Flatbush Latin American Stories* The El, 2007 Allerton Mandalas, 2006 Universal City, 2006 Avenue 2 5 Faceted glass in Faceted glass in platform Faceted glass in platform Faceted glass in platform Muriel Castanis platform windscreens windscreens windscreens windscreens Flatbush Floogies, 1996 Bronze reliefs in entrance Prospect Avenue 2 5 174th Street 2 5 Burke Avenue 2 5 233rd Street 2 5 and on platform walls Marina Tsesarskaya Daniel Del Valle Béatrice Coron Skowmon Hastanan Bronx. Four Seasons., 2008 A Trip Up the Bronx River, 2004 Bronx Literature, 2006 Secret Garden: No Place Like Church Avenue 2 5 Faceted glass in Faceted glass in platform Faceted glass in platform Home, 2006 Louis Delsarte platform windscreens windscreens and in window niches windscreen Faceted glass in platform Transitions, 2001 windscreens and mezzanine Glass mosaic on Intervale Avenue 2 5 West Farms Square-East Gun Hill Road 2 5 windows platform walls Michael Kelly Williams Tremont Avenue 2 5 Andrea Arroyo El 2 and El 5, 1992 Naomi Campbell My Sun (Mi Sol), My Planet Nereid Avenue (238th Street) Third Avenue-149th Street Glass mosaic on Animal Tracks, 2005 (Mi Planeta) and My City 2 5 2 5 mezzanine walls Faceted glass in platform (Mi Ciudad), 2006 Noel Copeland José Ortega windscreens Faceted glass in platform Leaf of Life, 2006 Una Raza, Un Mundo, Simpson Street 2 5 windscreen Faceted glass in platform wind- Universo (One Race, One Lisa Amowitz Bronx Park East 2 5 screens World, One Universe), 1996 Urban Renewal, 2008 Candida Alvarez 219th Street 2 Ceramic mosaic on Faceted glass in platform B Is for Birds in the Bronx, 2006 Joseph D’Alesandro Wakefield-241st Street 2 platform walls windscreens Faceted glass in platform Homage, 2006 Alfredo Ceibal windscreens Faceted glass in platform Permanent Residents and windscreens Visitors* Above, top left: Freeman Street Daniel Hauben Pelham Parkway 2 5 Faceted glass in platform Above, top right: Pelham Parkway Tomie Arai Tomie Arai windscreens Above, left to right: 233rd Street Skowmon Hastanan, Back to the Garden, 2007 225th Street Nicky Enright, Nereid Avenue (238th Street) Noel Copeland, Faceted glass in platform 219th Street Joseph D’Alesandro windscreens *to be installed 5 14th Street-Union Square Mary Miss 59th Street Elizabeth Murray 4 5 6 lines Frederick Dana Marsh Astor Place 6 51st Street 6 Lexington 96th Street 6 (1879-1961) Milton Glaser Avenue-53rd Street E V Laura Bradley Atlantic Avenue Marine Grill Murals, ca. 1913; Untitled, 1986 Nina Yankowitz City Suite, 1994 2 3 4 5 B D M N Q R installed 2000 Porcelain enamel on platform Tunnel Vision, 1988 Marble mosaic on platform George Trakas in collaboration Glazed terra cotta murals and walls Ceramic tile in lower walls, ceramic signage, with di Domenico + Partners painted cast iron gates created passageway railings, cut floor tile Hook (Archean Reach), Line for the McAlpin Hotel in 1913; 14th Street-Union Square (Sea House), and Sinker (Mined installed in passageway between 4 5 6 N R Q L W 59th Street 4 5 6 103rd Street 6 Swell), 2004 A C and 4 5 stations.