Contemporary Art Underground

MTA Arts & Design New York

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Hardcover, 264 pages

English language

Published April 24, 2024 by The Monacelli Press.

ISBN:
978-1-58093-642-2
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A celebration of more than 100 major public art commissions throughout the New York transit system.

Contemporary Art Underground presents more than 100 permanent projects completed between 2015 and 2023 by MTA Arts & Design. This ground-breaking program of site-specific projects by a broad spectrum of well-known and emerging contemporary artists has helped to create a sense of character and place at subway and commuter rail stations throughout the MTA system. Among the featured artists are Yayoi Kusama, Kiki Smith, Nick Cave, Ann Hamilton, Xenobia Bailey, Jim Hodges, Alex Katz, Sarah Sze, and Vik Muniz.

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reviewed Contemporary Art Underground by Sandra Bloodworth

Public art at its best

If you're a fan of public art, or mosaics, or New York City, or transit, this could be your book. Contemporary Art Underground is a beautiful, weighty coffee-table book with photos from across the MTA universe, encompassing all boroughs (yes, and Staten Island too) and all of MTA's transit systems. The subway is front and center, but LIRR, Metro-North, and the buses are represented.

William Wegman's dogs lord over the 23 St F/M station; Yayoi Kusama has an impossibly long mosaic work running the length of the new LIRR station at Grand Central; Nick Cave's Soundsuits lines a new, narrow connector that links Times Square station to 42 St-Bryant Park.

Definitely worth a look, the book and the stations both.

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