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Subterranean Gallery: A Look Back at the Best Art in the New York Subway System
By Carey Dunne
When your headphones are broken and you left your book at home and your thumbs are exhausted from playing too much Temple Run, sometimes the only thing that makes a claustrophobic subway ride bearable is staring at the MTA-commissioned art decorating the train cars. For thirty years, MTA Arts & Design has commissioned hundreds of artists and designers, including Milton Glaser, Peter Sis, and Sophie Blackall, to create posters, mosaics, and sculptures to liven up commutes and provide a nice counterbalance to all the Dr. Zizmor ads. New York View: MTA Arts & Design Illustrates the City,now showing Society of Illustrators, highlights the best art of the city underground, from Peter Sis’ painting of the island of Manhattan reimagined as a giant whale to George Bates’ psychedelic stained glass.
If you’re an artist or designer, an MTA commission is one of t
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A Look Below the Skyline: NYC's Transit Art Scene
When planning some of the first train stations in early 1899, the developers of New York City’s first subway system, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company,(IRT) made it clear that the transit system would do more than just get people around. In order to ensure that this would always be the case, chief engineer William Barclay Parsons included a clause in the construction contract specifying that all structures that would be exposed to the public would be designed, constructed, and maintained with an eye towards beauty and efficiency. This concept was influenced by the City Beautiful Movement, which promoted the idea that beautification and monumental storhet could improve social conditions.
To ease commuters' concerns about entering steel and concrete tunnels, and to carry out the design mandate, the architectural firm Heins & LaFarge was commissioned to develop New York City transit system’s original sta
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Andrea Dezsö
Represented by Pucker Gallery since 2009
BORN: 1968 in Satu-Mare, Romania
RESIDES: Amherst, Massachusetts and Jackson Heights, New York
Andrea Dezsö’s work encompasses drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, public art, embroidery, cut paper, and artists books. Born in Romania where travel was restricted during communism, Dezsö took to traveling through her imagination and as an artist her work explores terrain including issues of authoritarianism and freedom; gender; myth, superstition and wisdom; folk art and craft; and designing art for public spaces. Dezsö exhibits nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, the Rice Gallery in Texas, the Aldrich Museum in Connecticut, Museum Bellerieve in Switzerland, the Fujikawa Kirie Art Museum in Japan, the Cheongjou Biennale in South Korea, Art Basel Miami, and the New York Armory Show. Her work was also recently included in the exhibition Dread & Del