Recent Press Coverage

Featuring AFT programs, artists, and artworks in MTA's subway and rail systems:

• Second Avenue Subway Line
  • Famous Artists Tapped for Second Avenue Subway Station Installations, DNAinfo.com (May 11, 2012)
  • Second Avenue Subway Stations to be Beautified With public Art, NY.Curbed (May 14, 2012)
  • Second Avenue Subway Art, The New York Times (May 10, 2012)
• Poetry in Motion
  • Renewed and Improved: Poetry in Motion Returns to NYC Subways, The Best American Poetry (March 28, 2012)
  • MTA Brings Back Poetry In Motion Program, CBS New York (March 27, 2012)
  • "Poetry In Motion" Gets Another Ride in City Transit System, NY1 (March 27, 2012)
  • Subways Getting New Lines, Wall Street Journal (March 27, 2012)
  • Poetry in Motion: Verse Has Returned to New York's Subways, The Village Voice (March 27, 2012)
  • Poetry in Motion Returns to Subways, The Epoch Times (March 27, 2012)
  • Poetry in Motion is Coming Back to Brighten Your Commute, Gothamist (March 27, 2012)
  • Poetry to Grace the Back of MetroCards, DNAinfo (March 27, 2012)
  • Poetry to regain prominence in MTA subways, on MetroCards, am New York (March 27, 2012)
  • Poetry back in motion on the subway, Metro (March 27, 2012)
  • MTA brings back 'Poetry in Motion' campaign, New York Post (March 27, 2012)
  • Answering Cries of Longing for Poetry's Return to the Subway, The New York Times (March 27, 2012)
• MTA Arts for Transit App
  • An App for NYC Subway Art, Bangstyle (March 22, 2012)
  • There's an App for That: NYC Subway Art, MediaBistro (March 19, 2012)
  • Let This App Be Your Guide to New York's Subway Art, The Atlantic Cities (March 19, 2012)
  • MTA Launches Subway Art App, Calls Public Transit System a 'World Class Art Museum', The L Magazine (March 16, 2012)
  • New app turns New York’s subway stations into art museums, Smart Planet (March 16, 2012)
  • NYC just built an app for finding art in its largest gallery: The subway system, The Next Web (March 16, 2012)
  • MTA launches app for New York City transit art, ABC7 (March 15, 2012)
  • MTA Launches App that Shows Artwork in the Transit System, DNAinfo.com (March 15, 2012)
  • An App For Finding NYC Subway Art, Transportation Nation (March 15, 2012)
  • App Launched for NYC Transit Art, New Jersey Herald (March 15, 2012)
  • LOOK | A Slideshow of Underground Subway Art, WNYC (March 15, 2012)
  • MTA to Release App Guide for Its Art, GalleristNY (March 14, 2012)
  • Transit Art Gets New App, The Wall Street Journal (March 14, 2012)
  • New MTA App Brings Subway Art to Smartphones, The Village Voice (March 14, 2012)
  • MTA to Introduce Public Art App, The New York Times, Arts Beat (March 14, 2012)
• Art Cards
  • Big Apple Taps Top Kids' Book Illustrators to Brighten Up Its Subway System, School Library Journal (March 5, 2012)
• Second Avenue Subway Line
  • A Preview of the MTA's Ultra-Contemporary Public Art for New York's Second Avenue Subway Line, Blouin ARTINFO (February 6, 2012)
• Callie Hirsch, Vast, 2011
  • Beach 105 Station Features Callie Hirsch's Artwork, The Wave (January 20, 2012)
• Simon Levenson, The Beaches of New York City, 2011
  • Artist Simon Levenson On Display At Beach 60 Street Station, The Wave (January 13, 2012)
• Fulton Street Transit Center
  • A peek into the Fulton Street Transit Center, Downtown Express (January 4, 2012)
• Music Under New York
  • Dozens Audition to Be Subway Musicians, NBC New York (May 18, 2011)
  • Musicians Vie For Subway Spots, The Epoch Times (May 17, 2011)
  • Buskers Audition to Play Music Underground, WNYC Culture (May 17, 2011)
  • Aspiring Subway Performers Audition for the MTA, DNAinfo (May 17, 2011)
• Amy Bennett, Haydays, 2011
  • Bay Ridge straphangers divided on new mural, The Brooklyn Spectator (May 13, 2011)
  • Now that's a gorgeous mosaic!, The Brooklyn Paper (May 4, 2011)
  • Scenic Bay Ridge Mural Placed in 86th Street Station, Brooklyn Daily Eagle (April, 22, 2011)
• Art Lovers on a Budget During Armory Week? Head to 77th Street Station, DNAinfo (March 2, 2011)
• Antenna Design, Bloemendaal, 2010
  • Stainless Steel Flowers Bloom Amid Construction at 96th Street Subway Station, DNAinfo (July 9, 2010)
• Underground Art, The New York Observer (July 6, 2010)
• Inspiring Spaces: 25 Years of MTA Arts for Transit, Time Out New York (June 28, 2010)
• Under Broadway: New York Holds Subway Auditions, All Things Considered, NPR (June 1, 2010)
• Reed Seifer, optimism, 2009
  • MetroCard as Art, The New York Times (November 20, 2009)
  • Your MetroCard May Be Sending You a Secret Message, The New York Times (November 20, 2009)
  • The Days May Be Grim, but Here's a Good Word to Put in Your Pocket, The New York Times (November 19, 2009)
• Art and the Subway, The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC (September 18, 2009)
• Sol LeWitt, Whirls and twirls (MTA), 2009
  • Subway Riders Are Greeted by a Blast of Sol LeWitt Color, The New York Times (September 13, 2009)
  • Sol LeWitt's "Whirls and Twirls", WNYC (September 16, 2009)
  • Subway mural gives New Yorkers a splash of color, Time Out New York Kids (September 14, 2009)
• Next Stop-Underground ART!, msnbc.com
• Taking Subway Directions, Literally, From a Song of the City, The New York Times (April 30, 2009)
• Jean Shin, Celadon Remnants, 2008
  • Art in the Everyday, The New York Times (April 12, 2009)
  • Because Everyone Deserves a Trophy, The New York Times (April 12, 2009)
• Ebony Hillbillies, Music Under New York
  • One in 8 Million, New York Characters in Sound and Images, The New York Times   (January 30, 2009)
• New York Voices: Music Under New York (Thirteen/WNET) receives 2008 Cine Golden Eagle Award.
• Nitza Tufiño, Westside Views, 1989
  • 20 Years Later, Subway Mural Project Is Still a Source of Pride for the Artists, The New York Times   (January 5, 2009)
• Cadence Giersbach, From Earth to Sky, 2006, Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenues
  • Best of 2008 Awards, Myrtle-Wyckoff Station Rehabilitation, New York Construction
    (December 2008)
• Bill Brand, Masstransiscope, 1980 (Restored 2008), DeKalb Avenue
  • Attention Passengers! To Your Right, This Trip Is About to Become Trippy, The New York Times   (January 1, 2009)
• Doug & Mike Starn, See it split, see it change, 2008, South Ferry
  • Crit: South Ferry Terminal, The Architect's Newspaper (January 21, 2009)
  • See it Split, See it Change, and See it All for the Price of a Subway Ticket, Metropolis (January 15, 2009)
  • Making Artistic Connections at a Subway Station, The New York Times (December 14, 2008)
• Daniel Hauben, The El, 2007, Freeman Street
  • Set in Glass, Artist's Ode to Bronx Life Is Acclaimed, The New York Times (August 13, 2008)
  • Bronx Subway Station's Successful Public Art Work, Gothamist (August 13, 2008)
• Takayo Noda, The Habitat for the Yellow Bird, 2007, Sutter Avenue
  • Beautifying Brownsville With Stained Glass, The New York Sun (July 14, 2008)