Arts for Transit
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)
- Best of 2008 Awards, Myrtle-Wyckoff Station Rehabilitation, New York Construction
- 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)
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