Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Art Wheatpasting To Replace Graffiti on Subways?
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:21 PM
Used to be the subway cars were covered with tags and graffiti, but just as street art has commandeered ever larger swaths of the above-ground urban landscape (not to mention abandoned subway stations), so a new set of wheatpaste works spotted in subway cars by Jilly Ballistic suggests a new direction for art aboard the MTA.
The series (thus far only spotted on G and M trains) features Jilly Ballistic's trademark mix of black-and-white archival photos—sometimes cropped, elsewhere in full and with literary quotations. So much better than the official MTA art.
(Photos: Jilly Ballistic; SubwayArtBlog)
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