WNYC culture is exploring how New York commutes. Visit WNYC's Door to Door project where you can watch some video profiles of commuters and listen to other WNYC segments in the series.
Tracy Fitzpatrick explains how New York City’s subway has captured the imaginations for people around the world. In Art and the Subway: New York Underground, she explores the paintings, photographs, performance art, graffiti, and public art by artists such as Walker Evans, Bruce Davidson, Keith Haring, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Murray, and others, and looks at representations of the subway in film and art.
Tracy Fitzpatrick explains how New York City’s subway has captured the imaginations for people around the world. In Art and the Subway: New York Underground, she explores the paintings, photographs, performance art, graffiti, and public art by artists such as Walker Evans, Bruce Davidson, Keith Haring, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Murray, and others, and looks at representations of the subway in film and art.
Event: Tracy Fitzpatrick is going to take some listeners on a tour to see some subway art
Friday, September 25th, at 5:00 pm
We can only accommodate a limited number of listeners for the tour, but if you are interested in joining, RSVP at culture@wnyc.org.
Guests:
Tracy Fitzpatrick
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Comments [6]
The tone of the graffiti talk is quite patronizing. When graffiti rose in the NYC subways, it was because the city was falling apart. Why not tag up a car if the place is falling apart>
Nowadays, the city is not as bad, but the subways are still an open sore in this city. Outside of the new train cars, the stations themselves are really nasty, never clean even when they are cleaned, and I've seen rats as large as cats and human waste all over the place.
So while the discussion of art in the subway is valid, let's not blame graffiti as some bad thing. I'd take a tagged up car any day compared to dodging a rat or pile of poo on the steps.
My father-in-law, Hugh Mesibov, is a well known WPA artist who did many beautiful paintings, prints and sketches of the subway. You can see a sample of his work at www.Mesibov.net. He is 92 and still creating work.
When I rode the #7 train to Flushing Meadows to attend the US Open, I discovered the wonderful stained-glass windows in many of the above-ground stops along the way. Who did those and how long have they been installed?
oh I love the art in the subways, especially the bear in the red dress. who did that one?
I've been taking pictures of subway poster defacing in NYC subways for the last 3 years. Just wanted to share the blog where I've been putting this collection. I've haven't updated it in a while, but I'm reviving it soon.
www.subwaydeface.com
It's fun! :)
The infamous Michael Alig of Party Monster threw a few outlaw parties with drinks and music on the subway. Meeting places and times were planned for party goers they converged on a particular station where they caught the train and turned an entire car into a brief party. I don't know if this rises to art but at the time it felt like it.
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