I’ll leave this open for interpretation. Taken at the Bowery station.
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Thursday, November 18th, 2010 | Author: Jowy Romano
This is functional street art at its best.
These compasses created a lot of buzz when they first started appearing outside train stations over the summer. It looks as if the artist behind these (known only as IM Pi) has recently created a new stencil with easier-to-read cardinal directions. As you can see below, the original is a bit more ambiguous.
Projects like these help improve street art’s reputation with the public. Keep them coming!
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010 | Author: Jowy Romano
The MTA has many problems, but getting you where you need to go on time ain’t one!
Photo by awesome graffiti photographer Luna Park. Taken at Spring Street on the 6 line.
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 | Author: Jowy Romano
Another straphanger has taken the beatification of the subway into her own hands! The artist behind the work above (who wishes to remain anonymous) has made several of these sculptures, but for the first time decided to display one in the subway and was very pleased with the results. “I make these sculptures a lot, and was amazed by how wonderful it was to see it there in the subway. It gave it a new life, it was perfect,” she said. Expect to see more of these spring up. Our heroine says she is encouraged to make more and is currently looking for ways to make them last longer.
Saturday, November 13th, 2010 | Author: Jowy Romano
This one has a little story behind it.
NY1, a cable news channel here in New York, ran a piece on found art in the subway. For the story they interviewed Maureen Cooter about her subway tile paintings, Jen and Alli at Why Are You on My Train? about their videos and myself about the abstractions I find underground.
The last shot in the video is of me taking the photo above inside the 23rd street station. You can watch this and what little of our interviews did not hit the cutting room floor on NY1′s website here: NY1 – Subway Art Hard to Miss, Easy to Uncover.
Thursday, November 11th, 2010 | Author: Jowy Romano
Hello ladies.
Harry, you are looking rather bloated today.
…THE DARK.
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 | Author: Jowy Romano
As part of its special Subway Issue, The New York Times invited artists and readers to design their own personalized version of New York’s subway map. Several designs were published including a couple by well known graffiti legends—one by Lady Pink (top) and another by Stay High 149 (below). As it were, The Times also featured this blog in the same spread. What would your subway map look like?
