Our subway system gets battered daily, by five million daily riders, by age and weather, by those who carelessly toss trash (surprisingly few, as it happens, it just looks like a lot when five million people use you every day), and by the comments of those who think it looks grungy and say as much to its very burdened tracks and stairs and walls. It does, Ill admit it. In places. But all over the place, just look, art is bursting out in glass and mosaic and metal and tile and music and light, art conceived by our greatest artists, art rendered by talented and caring plasterers and welders and construction workers and glaziers, art for arts sake, art for our sake, whimsical, profound, touching, sweet, and informative about the neighborhoods and people each station serves. We are halfway through a program already thirty years in the making to add art to every single subway platform. And this amazing documentary chronicles the progress so far. If youve the time, watch it? At least watch part of it. At least see the care that goes into making each of our lives a bit more compelling as we gather in community to get where we are going. NYC is only possible because of our mass transit, because we give up cars to get to work, because we interact with one another during what is often a private time for much of the world. And because weve made this social pact, it is altogether fitting and just that that communal act should be celebrated and immortalized so beautifully and tenderly by some of the most creative visionaries weve ever produced. Just look.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:00:01 +0000
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