Art in a Subway Station?
After staying at the MoMA for more than three hours, writing a blurb could have been the easiest thing to do. However, I changed my mind on my way home when I set foot in the subway station at 53rd St. (E and V trains). I could not believe what I saw before me – advertisements posted all over the wall of the station; there was not any space left, not even for an ant. Though these advertisements had commercial purposes, I still viewed them with artistic eyes. I honestly hate advertisements in train stations, but I liked these ones because they were either replicas of famous works of art, or perfect photographs of events in the past. However, all of them had a unison message – “Please come to our museum.” It was funny to see that every museum near the station, such as the MoMa, the Municipal Art Society, the Museum of Radio and Television, and the American Folk Art Museum, were all advertising there.