Nov 16, 2019
It may be National Button Day but once a year, but to this Weimaraner, every day is button day! Find this buttoned up beauty at the 23rd Street (F/M) station in William Wegman’s “Stationary Figures”.
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It may be National Button Day but once a year, but to this Weimaraner, every day is button day! Find this buttoned up beauty at the 23rd Street (F/M) station in William Wegman’s “Stationary Figures”.
Today we reveal a beautiful new artwork by Diana Al-Hadid installed at 34th Street-Penn Station (1,2,3). The two expansive panels are a meditation on the unique history of Penn Station. "The Arches of Old Penn Station" on the west wall seen when you exit the subway into Penn Station, holds a painterly image of the original 1910 Beaux-Arts Penn Station grand interior, dripping and obscured, suggestive of an image slipping off the surface, but also tied and held to the grid of the surrounding tilework. In "The Arc of Gradiva" on the sixty-foot long south wall, an image of Gradiva, a mythological female character from a novella who “walks through walls” and roams the ancient ruins of Pompeii, appears as a ghostly apparition, with the flowing fabric of her garment stretching the length of the wall. Her footsteps mirror those of the crowds in the station. Both images originate from life-size line drawings on mylar and were translated into shimmering glass mosaic of pearls, aquas, and gold by Mayer of Munich. The gestural lines create ghosted images of the past, coming in and out of focus through the station’s walls. When considered together, one might imagine that Gradiva has come to claim both the original Penn Station in its former glory, as well as stake her presence in the newly improved subway station.
If you love Firelei Báez’s vibrant installation at the 163 Street-Amsterdam Av (C train) station (detail pictured here), then you will be happy to know you can see more of her work in NYC this spring! “A Drexcyan Chronocommons (To win the war you fought it sideways)”, an exhibition of her new work opening tonight at James Cohan Gallery, includes an immersive installation (pictured) and recent paintings, shining a light on black diasporic symbols of nurturing and resistance. You can also see her work in En Plein Air on the Highline (at 20th Street) depicting a Haitian Sans-Souci Palace ruin that appears to sink into the ground.
Free and open to the public! Tomorrow night, artist Ann Hamilton will speak at Columbia University’s Lenfest Center for the Arts about her #MTAArts commissioned work “CHORUS”, a marble mosaic of text (fabricated by Mayer of Munich) from the Declaration of Independence and the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was recently installed at the WTC Cortlandt (1) station.
Register for the event here: https://lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/events/ann-hamilton