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Now Arriving: Yayoi Kusama and Kiki Smith’s Grand Central Madison Mosaics New York Times Beach scenes, wild turkeys and fantastic abstract forms in glass grace the M.T.A.’s new Long Island Rail Road terminal, with works by other artists. A committee of arts professionals and transit authority staffers picked Smith and Kusama in 2020, after a call for portfolios. “It was a highly competitive process,” said Sandra Bloodworth, the director of M.T.A. Arts & Design. There were seven finalists, and the women who were chosen made proposals that were very close to the finished designs. In the past, both artists have made much more provocative and button-pushing works than their Grand Central Madison pieces, which Bloodworth said reflected a savvy approach on their parts. “Artists are smart,” she said. “When they come into the public realm, they’re aware of what works in that environment." |
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Nick Cave Goes Underground
New York Times Amid the noise and teem of the Times Square station, the artist’s mosaic Soundsuits feel more alive than they often do in the silence of museums. The Soundsuits seem to be in motion, creating visual vortexes, variously spinning and rising or falling, conveying differing weights and textures of the figures’ pelts and exaggerating the movements of the wearer. Even in facsimile tile, they feel more alive than when I’ve seen the actual sculptures presented on mannequins in the near-silence of museums and galleries. |
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Nick Cave Digs Deep, With a Symphony in Glass
New York Times For his new installation of mosaics in New York, the artist ventures below Times Square. Sandra Bloodworth, the longtime director of M.T.A. Arts & Design, emphasized the artist’s focus on other artists. Cave is, she said in an interview in Bryant Park, “an artist who cares about people, who is so connected to community and so connected to people’s feelings.” To have an artist who is “grounded in that be the work that we’re going to see as we return,” she continued, “as everyone comes back and the city revitalizes, the timing is just absolutely perfect.
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Met the artist who is bringing new life to New York City's
Times Square subway station CBS Mornings |
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Train to the Museum? You’re Already There
New York Times Sandra Bloodworth, the director of Arts for Transit, said the involvement of the agency’s stations department, its architects and engineers and its system safety experts has been critical. “The end goal is how we make this a better station for the public,” she said. “When you introduce art into this environment, the message is, ‘Somebody cares about this place’ ” — and, by extension, the people who use it.
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Spotlight on MTA Arts and Design
National Endowment for the Arts Artworks Blog “It’s almost nonstop that people will describe a particular piece or talk about a poem they saw or a photograph or a poster or a work by Sol LeWitt. They will talk about those emerging artists in their station, and they will talk about what that meant to them. That’s an incredible thing--to impact a place like New York City.”
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MTA’s $27 Billion Spending Plan Will Bring New Art to 31 Stations
Artnet Though it’s easy to miss it in the hubbub of rush hour, the subway system actually doubles as something of an underground contemporary art museum, thanks to the efforts of MTA Arts & Design, led by director Sandra Bloodworth.
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Who knew they once called the New York subway beautiful, and have now done so again ?
Applied Brilliance, Sonoma Mission Inn |
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In this thought-provoking talk, Sandra Bloodworth, then director of MTA Arts and Design, shares projects that have transformed the New York subway.
Presenters at the Applied Brilliance Conference are brilliant speakers ranging from poets, philosophers and economists, to scientists, artists and futurists. Their insights on emerging trends and cultural paradigm shifts provide actionable roadmaps to the future. Through a systems-thinking approach, speakers and attendees engage in Socratic problem solving exercises providing solutions for our complex, interconnected world. |
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Sandra Bloodworth: Recreating the New York Subway.
In the Re-Creation of Public Spaces, Sandra Bloodworth takes us on a visual journey through the MTA's subway system by inviting us to focus on the power of art to transform public spaces.
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