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<em>Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit</em>
Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit

Underground Art

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Have you noticed the art museum underground? Works by world famous artists in the subways, there for you to enjoy while you commute? We’ll speak with four contributors to a new subway art collection, and ask what’s your favorite. Also, with twelve days to go until he leaves office, we take a look at Governor Pataki’s legacy.

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Pataki Legacy

Frank Mauro, executive director Fiscal Policy Institute
and
Steve Malanga, contributing editor at the Manhattan Institute's City Journal and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute
- discuss George Pataki's legacy in New York State


Weird Science

Matthew LaClair, a student at Kearny High School in New Jersey
and
Paul LaClair, Matthew's father and a lawyer in New York
-on Matthew's science teacher prostelytizing during class


Back on Track

Jeremy Soffin, vice president for public affairs at the Regional Plan Association
- talks about new funds for extending the LIRR to Grand Central and developing the Second Avenue Subway


Underground Art

William Ayres, chief curator at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook, NY and co-author
and
Sandra Bloodworth, director, Arts in Transit and co-author
and
Mary Miss, sculptor and installation artist whose "Framing Union Square" is part of the 14th Street-Union Square subway station
and
Bing Lee, China born artist whose ceramic tile artwork, "Empress Voyage 2.22 1794" decorates the Canal Street Subway Station
-on the new book Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit and the art gallery that is the New York subway system

Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit is available for purchase at Amazon.com

Mary Miss' work online
Bing Lee's "Empress Voyage 2.22 1794"



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