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Street Art – Subway Art In NYC
Marcel Dzama’s “No Less Than Everything Comes Together” (2021) at Bedford Avenue station (photo Hakim Bishara/Hyperallergic)
Street Art – Subway Art In NYC.
Marcel Dzama at Bedford Avenue — Located at the mezzanines of this Williamsburg station’s Driggs Avenue and Bedford Avenue entrances, “No Less Than Everything Comes Together” (2021) transports travelers from the subway to Marcel Dzama’s whimsical circus of sorts, complete with dancing ballerinas, anthropomorphic moons and suns, and fantastical beasts that seem straight out of a children’s storybook.
Kiki Smith’s “The Spring” (2022) is one of five mosaics spread throughout the Long Island Railroad terminal. (photo Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic)
“Wall-Slide” (2002) by Vito Acconci (Acconci Studio) at 161 St-Yankee Stadium Station (photo Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic)
Vito Acconci at 161 Street-Yankee Stadium — The MTA commissioned both artist Vito Acconci and an architecture firm to create this 2002 project, which places the station’s structural elements on display through exposed stone and steel while reimagining standard subway platform construction. A row of tiled seats juts out from the wall and a fragmented “161st Street” sign hangs at an odd angle.
Robert Wilson, “My Coney Island Baby” (2004) (© the artist; photo by Rob Wilson, courtesy Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts & Design)
Robert Wilson at Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue — Nostalgic images of hot dogs, amusement park rides, and beachgoers by experimental theater artist and sculptor Robert Wilson are strewn across a massive glass brick wall at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station in this ode to the city’s historic coastal neighborhood. Illuminated by either outside sunlight or the station’s interior fluorescent lights depending on the time of day, Wilson’s installation captures both the dreamy and mysterious spirit of Coney Island in this brightly colored display.
Yoko Ono’s “SKY” (2018) sits below the famed Dakota building in upper Manhattan. (photo Elaine Velie/Hyperallergic)
Yoko Ono at 72nd Street — Yoko Ono’s 973 square-foot mosaic comprises images of blue skies and the words “Remember,” “Dream,” and “Imagine Peace” scrawled throughout. The station lies below the Dakota apartment building that Ono called home for 50 years.