Latinx Art in the Subway
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MTA Arts & Design has one of the largest and most diverse site-specific public art collections in the world. Since the 1980s, artists have been commissioned to make meaningful connections to transit stations and to the neighborhoods, communities, and riders they serve.
In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, we are pleased to highlight two Latinx artists and their works in the NYC transit system. Nitza Tufiño, a celebrated Nuyorican artist, has some of the earliest commissioned artworks in the subway with Westside Views (1986) at 86th Street and Neo-Boriken (1990) at 103rd Street. Glendalys Medina’s more recent installation at Grand Street station on the L line, Gratitudes off Grand (2023), uses abstract studies of color to reflect the array of communities, indigenous and immigrant, that have settled in the East Williamsburg and Bushwick area over time.
Join a conversation between artists Nitza Tufiño and Glendalys Medina, and MTA Arts & Design Director Sandra Bloodworth, moderated by El Museo del Barrio curator Susanna Temkin.
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