Author: Charles Reinhardt

Identity, Belonging and the MTA – The Art of Asma A. Shikoh

Asma Ahmed Shikoh is a Pakistani-American artist currently based in New York City whose work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art, Ceres Gallery, Exit Art, Austrian Cultural Forum, and the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center. A professional artist for over ten years, she has been profiled in The New York Times and on the BBC, and has been recognized for her singular take on identity and geography. Born and raised in Pakistan, her pieces have a hybrid sensibility, blending diverse cultural icons and affects into a synthesis of images that transcends the simplistic dichotomy of East and West.

Mrs. Shikoh’s main New York-based collections “Home” (2005) and “Liberated” (2007) both contain original reinterpretations of MTA maps and Metrocards. In these collections, Mrs. Shikoh rewrites the text of these basic transit tools in Urdu, a Hindi dialect spoken in Pakistan, rendering the subway system and its affects into an almost universal signpost of participation and belonging in modern society. In 2009, her work was published in Tracy Fitzpatrick’s “Art and the Subway”, a comprehensive overview of the history of subway art. We caught up with Mrs. Shikoh to ask her about her life, her art and their intersection with New York public transit. Continue reading “Identity, Belonging and the MTA – The Art of Asma A. Shikoh”

The Next Best Thing

The graffiti-covered subway train is fixed in our imagination as an icon of New York culture. Indeed, newcomers and visitors are often somewhat dismayed to discover the semi-pristine condition of present-day MTA subway cars.

To remedy this, Smart Crew, a graffiti outfit based in Queens, created a nostalgic tribute to the lost art of train tagging: a tractor-trailer painted like a subway car from the 7 line, replete with old school 70’s style tags and bubble letters.

For greater  verisimilitude, the “train” even has an American flag and train number, the latter corresponding to last year, when the train design was first painted.

The design of the graffiti is distinctly old school, and presumably a real treat for graff connoisseurs.
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The truck belongs to a Greenpoint pallet company.

Photos courtesy scoutingny.com

They Walk Among Us

These sinister stickers from 6th Avenue station seem to suggest that actors, accountants and even journalists are not human. It’s either a warning message sent back in time by John Connor . . . or some talented sticker-making satirists.

The proportionality of the cyborg eye vis-a-vis Jason Sudeikis’s face is a particularly nice touch.

The suggestion that newscasters are secretly cyborgs is unsettlingly credible.
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This sticker was discovered on the L line. It’s particularly appropriate for tax season, when all of us feel at the mercy of some inhuman machine . . .

If anyone knows anything about these clever little stickers, please get in touch with us!

Photos by Charles Reinhardt.