mark1447 Posted March 15, 2012 Share #1 Posted March 15, 2012 For many years the most underrated art museum in New York City has also, oddly, been the one with by far the most visitors, millions a day: the subway system. Since 1985, the Arts for Transit program of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has commissioned permanent works by both well-known and lesser-known artists for the subway and also the commuter rail system. But finding these works, in a system that can sometimes feel like a lab-mouse maze designed by a sadistic scientist, has never been easy. So several months ago the authority began working with Meridian, a mobile software company based in Portland, Ore., and on Thursday it plans to announce its first licensed app to serve as a guide to the 186 permanent works installed throughout the stations, and to a few dozen more in the Metro North and Long Island Rail Road systems. Looking for Robert Wilson? He’s in Coney Island. Maya Lin? Penn Station. Doug and Mike Starn? South Ferry. Vito Acconci (some of whose early performance pieces were so notorious they might as well have been performed in the subway in the middle of the night)? You can find him in two places, including the Yankee Stadium station at 161st Street in the Bronx, where his 2002 piece “Wall-Slide” makes the station look as if it is turning itself into an archaeological dig. More... http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/mta-to-introduce-public-art-app/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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