MTA Arts for Transit was created to oversee the selection of artists and installation of permanent artworks in subway and commuter rail stations. Discover and enjoy this diverse and beautiful collection of commissioned public artwork installed throughout the subway and commuter rail stations of the MTA. For more information on other installations, visit mta.info/mta/aft.
Discover and enjoy this diverse and beautiful collection of commissioned public artwork installed throughout the subway and commuter rail stations by artists including Faith Ringgold, Tom Otterness, Milton Glaser, Bill Brand, Andrea Dezsö and Elizabeth Murray.
"Passage" was designed by Tom Patti in tandem with the architects, FX + FOWLE, as an integral part of the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street - Broadway station.
Bill Brand's "Masstransiscope" turns the subway into a movie machine, presenting a colorful, animated "moving picture" to commuters as the train moves through the tunnel.
The scores of figures created by Tom Otterness for "Life Underground" invigorate and transforms the transit environment into a place of joy and whimsy. His small-scale sculptures invoke the subway and lore of the city and include an alligator rising out of a sewer to devour a man.
Jason Middlebrook's mosaic installation, "Brooklyn Seeds," is a monumentally-scaled garden of wildflowers climbing up the stair wall extending from Avenue U to the elevated train platform. Created in glass mosaic, with the help of experienced subway mosaicist Stephen Miotto, the choice of plants is based upon local wildflowers that grow in unlikely places, through cracks in the sidewalk, alleys and walls. Middlebrook's work explores the place where the urban and manmade intersect with the natural ...
"Community Garden" is a glass mosaic mural that fills the entire mezzanine wall at the Bedford Park Boulevard subway station. The imagery depicts a lush fantasy garden of colorful, oversized fruit, vines, insects and animals. In Dezsö's garden, the community can experience the artist's lush imagination through her colors and animal forms that have an enchanting quality. Her garden is intended to delight commuters, inspiring them with the playful images and intense colors.
Milton Glaser, widely known as a pioneering graphic designer (including the I ♥ New York logo) and print maker, created artwork for the Astor Place station that complements the existing historic fabric while making a bold and modern statement. The station holds excellent examples of terra cotta and mosaics, particularly the Grueby Facience Company's plaques that depict beavers, a source of the Astor family wealth from fur trading.
Riders at this station are treated to the joyous burst of color and shapes that is "Blooming." The mosaics defy the corners of the space as the imagery wraps around corners, down steps and through doorways."Blooming" takes its title from Bloomingdale's, located above the station upstairs. The artist views the subway as a "dreamy underworld" and also a place to wake up. Her pink trees, red shoes and yellow mugs with steaming coffee succeed in ...
"Flying Home" is a mosaic mural that honors Harlem notables and makes them fly. The mural on one platform depicts performers, painters and sports figures like Dinah Washington, Sugar Ray Robinson and Josephine Baker. The opposite platform shows leaders like Malcolm X and writer Zora Neale Hurston, brought to life in mosaics that recall the cultural zenith of Harlem. The title is based on a Lionel Hampton song which Faith Ringgold heard as a child. ...
"Flying Home" is a mosaic mural that honors Harlem notables and makes them fly. The mural on one platform depicts performers, painters and sports figures like Dinah Washington, Sugar Ray Robinson and Josephine Baker. The opposite platform shows leaders like Malcolm X and writer Zora Neale Hurston, brought to life ...
Riders at this station are treated to the joyous burst of color and shapes that is "Blooming." The mosaics defy the corners of the space as the imagery wraps around corners, down steps and through doorways."Blooming" takes its title from Bloomingdale's, located above the station upstairs. The artist views the ...
Milton Glaser, widely known as a pioneering graphic designer (including the I ♥ New York logo) and print maker, created artwork for the Astor Place station that complements the existing historic fabric while making a bold and modern statement. The station holds excellent examples of terra cotta and mosaics, particularly the Grueby ...
"Community Garden" is a glass mosaic mural that fills the entire mezzanine wall at the Bedford Park Boulevard subway station. The imagery depicts a lush fantasy garden of colorful, oversized fruit, vines, insects and animals. In Dezsö's garden, the community can experience the artist's lush imagination through her colors and ...
Jason Middlebrook's mosaic installation, "Brooklyn Seeds," is a monumentally-scaled garden of wildflowers climbing up the stair wall extending from Avenue U to the elevated train platform. Created in glass mosaic, with the help of experienced subway mosaicist Stephen Miotto, the choice of plants is based upon local wildflowers that grow ...
The scores of figures created by Tom Otterness for "Life Underground" invigorate and transforms the transit environment into a place of joy and whimsy. His small-scale sculptures invoke the subway and lore of the city and include an alligator rising out of a sewer to devour a man.
Bill Brand's "Masstransiscope" turns the subway into a movie machine, presenting a colorful, animated "moving picture" to commuters as the train moves through the tunnel.