Inspiring Spaces: 25 Years of MTA Arts for Transit

NEW YORK TRANSIT MUSEUM GALLERY ANNEX

July 26 - October 31, 2010
Grand Central Terminal Shuttle Passage, just off the Main Concourse, next to the Station Master's Office

NEW YORK TRANSIT MUSEUM

July 3, 2010 - March 2011
Brooklyn Heights Corner of Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street

October 5, 2010, 6:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion
25 Years of MTA Arts for Transit:
Revisiting our Roots
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Since 1985, MTA Arts for Transit has been one of the country's most innovative public art programs, creating over 215 projects for the stations and facilities of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), with another 70 currently in production. In celebration of Arts for Transit's 25th anniversary, the New York Transit Museum will present Inspiring Spaces: 25 Years of MTA Arts for Transit. This two-part exhibition on view at Museum locations in Brooklyn and the Gallery Annex at Grand Central Terminal examines the art, artists, and impact of this rich and varied body of work.

The exhibition at the Museum's Gallery Annex at Grand Central Terminal will examine nearly three dozen pieces that embody a key principle of public art?that it is created for a specific space, and in turn alters both the place and people who use it. In Brooklyn Heights, the exhibition explores the recurring themes that inspire artists and their Arts for Transit projects. Both contain introductory essays by Eleanor Heartney, art critic and contributing editor to Art in America. Heartney explores the place of Arts for Transit in the larger context of public art.

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