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Bowling Green (4,5) station just got a refresh!

We’ve installed a new vinyl display across eight panels that highlights over 40 years of MTA Arts & Design’s permanent and temporary projects throughout the transit system. Showcasing photographs of the visual art, music, poetry, and digital works that have enlivened stations for decades, this activation celebrates our ongoing commitment to bringing creativity to every commute.

Art everywhere, for everyone!

Artists featured:
@ruby_onyinyechi_draws
@shervone_neckles
@fredtomaselli
@angiedrakopoulos
@lionelcruet
@sheshedanz
@lengua
@olimpiazagnoli
@jeffrune
@alexkatzofficial
@eganamsegbefia
@greatmochi
@hyojung_bea
@laurafreemanart
@jxie03
and Essex Hemphill

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This weird & wonderful mosaic at Borough Hall was unveiled a few weeks ago: May Your Road Be Light and Fun by artist ruby onyinyechi amanze, fabricated by Miotto Mosaic Art Studios

@mta @ruby_onyinyechi_draws #subway #subwayart #nyc

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THE BOOKS: New York, I love you! I’m grateful to @andrealschulz and @viking for your faith in HABILA. Also wonderful to catch up with chosen family and to meet @flynnberryauthor and @ashleyaudrain, whose books you should definitely pre-order during your next bookstore run.

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After eight long years, the Borough Hall station is finally done with their drawn out renovations so let’s visit the transfer tunnel between the 2/3 and 4/5. Nigerian-born, Brooklyn based artist Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze created a fantastical mosaic mural that explore her fascination with the air and water, perfectly encapsulated in the many divers that appear in the work. Astronauts and leopard headed figures are composed within angular spaces that mimic her layered paper collages. Amanze is known for her works on paper, creating large scale drawings and collages that resemble dreams, figures overlapping, falling in space, minimally composed. She calls herself a transcontinental immigrant that flies over vast bodies of water; that space between air and water becomes magical, a place of change and transformation. There are elements of Afro-futurism in her work, through the presence of hybrid humans and the aforementioned divers that also wear space helmets. These are creations that describe the possibilities of human progress through predominantly Black figures. Though Amanze’s work is more angular and interested in the geometry of architecture, she is like fellow MTA artists Firelei Baez and Saya Woolfalk in her mystical approach to speculative futures.

Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze, May Your Road be Light and Fun, 2025
#mtaarts #mtaartsanddesign #subwayart #publicart #rubyonyinyechiamanze

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Join us in Mexico City this Saturday, August 8, for a conversation between Akwaeke Emezi and Yagazie Emezi about their artistic practices and the ways identity, spirituality, and creative processes intertwine in their work.
At @libreriamarianeibrahim @marianeibrahimgallery
A book signing will follow the conversation, and copies of Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir will be available for purchase.
17 Saturday, August 8 | 1:00 PM
Río Pánuco 36, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City

Left: custom artwork by @ruby_onyinyechi_draws for the cover of “Dear Senthuran”

Right: artwork by @yagazieemezi, “Untitled, 2024” (hand-embroidered canvas print on hemp fabric)

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After more than two years of construction, the station now features three new elevators connecting the street, mezzanine and platforms for the 2, 3, 4 and 5 lines.

The $106 million overhaul modernized one of NYC’s oldest subway stations — and Brooklyn’s first underground station — while preserving its original character.

🔗Read our exclusive interview with MTA Construction and Development President Jamie Torres-Springer at the LINK IN BIO.

Photos: Mary Frost/Brooklyn Eagle

#Subway #BoroughHall #Trains #DowntownBrooklyn #LocalNews

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ICE CREAM MOMENTS FROM THE LAST 2 WEEKENDS… Leute ich sag’s euch COUSINS TERRACE IS THE SUMMER SPOT!!! Why yall so CUUUUTE SOOOO HEIẞ SO LIIIIEEEEB SO FUNNYYY?!?!? Dreams come true!!! WIR LIEBEN EUCH!!! see you SAT & SUN!!!

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There’s nothing like the Drawing Room Biennial. On the surface, it’s a fundraiser. 300 works on paper, available for bidding, with every work starting at £400.
But it’s more than that. You look at the list of contributors, and you realise that the exceptional generosity is because they all have faith in what this institution does.
And then… You look at what this bringing together achieves on a curatorial level. You walk through the display set out in alphabetical order and there are no hierarchies. Cumulatively, it tells you so much about what drawing does and what it could be.
If you had to go to one exhibition to understand where art’s priorities and concerns are located today, then it’s the Drawing Room Biennial.
Bidding is now open until 9pm on 23rd June this week.
My selection is a bit cropped here and there, and barely scratches the surface of what you’ll discover:
https://biennial.drawingroom.org.uk/home
@drawingroomlondon

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Not overthinking, just understanding life a little deeper 🫰🏻💞.
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#explorepage
#loveart
#instadaily
#thinkpositive
#favorite

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“May Your Road Be Light and Fun” by ruby.
Together with @miottomosaics we are so proud to present one of our last creation made for artist @ruby_onyinyechi_draws inside a new @mtaartsdesign commission for NYCT Borough Hall Station. Presenting here some of the most outstanding details pictured during the working process. #art #artwork #publicart #nyc #mosaics

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Belated Venice highlights dump!

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Now on view: "May Your Road Be Light and Fun," by ruby onyinyechi amanze at Borough Hall station, in Brooklyn. Extending across the 110-foot length of the passageway connecting the 2, 3, and 4, 5 subway lines, the work transforms the corridor into an immersive environment shaped by rhythm, imagination, and visual storytelling. Drawing from amanze’s large works on paper, the mosaic explores themes of embodiment, freedom, and spatial choreography through hybrid figures, architectural references, and dreamlike scenes that animate the walls with a sense of movement and play. Incorporating elements inspired by the station’s historic architecture, the installation creates a dialogue between the site’s past and the artist’s expansive fictional universe.

🎨 @ruby_onyinyechi_draws
📍Borough Hall (2,3,4,5)
🛠️ @miottomosaics
📸 @saharchphoto

May Your Road Be Light and Fun (2025) © ruby onyinyechi amanze, NYCT Borough Hall Station. Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design. Photos: Sahar Coston-Hardy

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