{"id":390351,"date":"2025-11-19T17:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/390351\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:11:18","slug":"new-photos-poetry-liven-up-nyc-subway-stations-celebrating-40-year-anniversary-of-mta-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/390351\/","title":{"rendered":"New photos, poetry liven up NYC subway stations, celebrating 40-year anniversary of MTA arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"741\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/subway-art-mta.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"woman and child looking at photos in a NYC train station\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"New photos, poetry liven up NYC subway stations, celebrating 40-year anniversary of MTA arts 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>#seen (2025) \u00a9 Lionel Cruet, NYCT 42 St-Bryant Park. Commissioned by MTA Arts &amp; Design.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Jason Mandella<\/p>\n<p>Commuters passing through some of New York City\u2019s most iconic subway stations will be delighted with new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/nyc-transit\/azusa-sheshe-dance-soulful-songs-nyc-subway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">art<\/a> as the MTA announced the launch of its latest \u201cArts &amp; Design\u201d program additions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The art on display in Grand Central Madison and 42 St-Bryant Park includes two lens-based exhibitions that reflect on distinct New York communities. Two new poems are on display across the MTA system, appearing in print and on digital screens in subway cars and platforms, commuter rail trains, and Metro-North Railroad and Long Island Rail Road stations, including Grand Central Terminal and Grand Central Madison.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The poems were selected with help from the Poetry Society of America, a nonprofit founded in 1910 to place poems at the \u201ccrossroads of American life,\u201d according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/poetrysociety.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website, poetrysociety.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coinciding with the new exhibits is the 40th anniversary of the MTA\u2019s Arts &amp; Design program. It was founded in 1985.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137812329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mta-arts-program.jpg\" alt=\"series of large photos in a NYC train station\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" title=\"New photos, poetry liven up NYC subway stations, celebrating 40-year anniversary of MTA arts 2\"  \/>Beach Umbrellas\/Shore Front Parkway (2025) \u00a9 Roe Ethridge, LIRR Grand Central Madison. Commissioned by MTA Arts &amp; Design. Photo by Jason Mandella.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe photography program offers a unique canvas for visual storytelling, while Poetry in Motion, recognized as one of the most popular public literary programs in American history, connects with riders in a way that is distinct among Arts &amp; Design\u2019s offerings,\u201d said Tina Vaz, director of the program. \u201cThese new photographic meditations and evocative poems are a special and essential part of our year-long anniversary celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137812331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mta-poetry-ars-program.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" title=\"New photos, poetry liven up NYC subway stations, celebrating 40-year anniversary of MTA arts 3\"  \/>\u201cThread\u201d by Essex Hemphill from Love is a Dangerous Word: Selected Poems. \u00a9 2025 by the Estate of Essex Hemphill. Reprinted by The Permissions Company LLC, on behalf of New Directions Publishing Corp, ndbooks.com. I AM A RAINBOW TOO (2020) \u00a9 Jeffrey Gibson, NYCT Astoria Blvd Station. Commissioned by MTA Arts &amp; Design.Photo by Etienne Frossard<\/p>\n<p>Works of artists and poets including Lionel Cruet, Roe Ethridge, Jeffrey Gibson, Duke Riley, Essex Hemphill and Matthew Rohrer, are on exhibit for commuters to enjoy. <\/p>\n<p>For more information about the MTA\u2019s Arts &amp; Design program, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/mta.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mta.info<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"#seen (2025) \u00a9 Lionel Cruet, NYCT 42 St-Bryant Park. Commissioned by MTA Arts &amp; Design. 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