Art goes underground in NYC
The Museum of Modern Art in New York has decided to take art underground. Literally.
For the next couple of weeks people catching a subway train at a station in Brooklyn will be treated to a display of 50 works from the MOMA collection.
Much nicer than crap buskers and scribbled graffiti tags. Don't you think?
Best of all you can download an MP3 audio tour for your iPod so you get the most out of your subway visit.
I'd love to see something simlar at stations here in Melbourne. Perhaps as part of the Melbourne or Design Festivals. What about you?
posted by Stan Lee at 4:05 am
6 Comments:
Stan, do even catch public Transport??
They have a bit of this already.
would be cool to have large works though.
But the nice thing about underground art is that it's from underground artists.
Mmmmm. or maybe that has to change.
I dunno.
Hey Stan, as a frequent train traveller, I'm quite familiar with this concept. Melbourne does a good job of promoting talented (underground) artists at the Degraves Exit of Flinders Street Station... amongst other city scapes. You should check it out if you haven't already! Maybe what you're referring to more so though is getting popular artworks exhibited in these spaces? Personally, I don't know how well that would work...
Transport travellers in Melbourne get to see more art than any other city in the world. It's called graffiti.
Sometimes it's even in the train as well as outside.
Apologies, wrong link in name above.
Yes you are all absolutely correct. Melbournian transport users get to see plenty of art. I thought it might be nice if our major public galleries got involved.
Actually you are right, Stan. Move all the artworks out of the galleries for a month and let the graffiti artists loose on the gallery walls. Win win.
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