MTA Arts & Design

2026 MTA Music Stations Series
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Thursday, May 21

Bronx
Parkchester, Lower Mezzanine
12-3pm: Vong Pak – traditional Korean drum and dance .us

Brooklyn
Atlantic Ave – Barclays Center, Lower Mezzanine near 4,5 stairs
12-3pm: Sharon Yung – classical violin

Manhattan
34 St-Herald Sq, Mezzanine above N,R,Q,W
12-3pm: Yut Violinist – electric violin

Queens — Cancelled
Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Av/74 St. Apologies, the performance scheduled for this location has been cancelled.

Staten Island
St George Ferry Terminal
12-3pm: Kazoo 365 – pop guitar/vocals

Now on view at Fulton Center: Shuttle and Shake by artist Shimon Attie ()

This digital installation spotlights dancers, martial artists, and performers moving against a stark black backdrop. Their precise gestures and sharp silhouettes echo the flow of commuters navigating the station each day.

Set inside one of NYC’s busiest hubs, Shuttle and Shake mirrors the city’s constant motion—its rushes, pauses, and rhythms—inviting viewers to notice the movement in their own daily commute.

Catch this two-minute burst of motion at the top of every hour, presented with support from Westfield RISE and ANC Sports.

Announcing a bold new direction for our Photography Program: systemwide artist takeovers are coming this fall. For the first time, a single artist’s work will fill all 45 Arts & Design lightboxes across four stations.

Our inaugural takeover exhibition will feature industrial photographer Christopher Payne, whose large‑format images reveal the unseen beauty of American industry, infrastructure, and the skilled labor that powers it.

For the forthcoming exhibition, will expand on his acclaimed series inside the MTA’s Coney Island Overhaul Shop, broadening it into a systemwide study of the behind‑the‑scenes operations that keep the nation’s largest transit network moving.

The work will span all of the MTA’s operating agencies—New York City Transit, Long Island Rail Road, Metro‑North Railroad, MTA Bus Company, and MTA Bridges and Tunnels—offering the public a rare view of infrastructure and expertise that make daily travel possible.

Launching September 2026

See and feel “Indigenous Presence” by Dakota Mace, now on view at Bowling Green Station! 
 
Drawing on the Diné concept of ałk’idáá, ’s series uses historical and experimental photographic processes—including pinhole photography, chemigrams, and cliché verre, a combination of hand-drawing and photography— to highlight the layered histories embedded in the land. 
 
Photographed around Bowling Green—a site once used as an Indigenous council ground and tied to early Manhattan history—the work reframes the urban landscape as an active storyteller connecting past, present, and future. 
 
📍Bowling Green (4,5), near the mezzanine entrance to uptown platform
 
Through September 2026
 
Printing support provided by and .nyc with installation support from

MTA Arts & Design is pleased to announce the installation of a new permanent artwork by artist Christopher Myers at New York City Transit (NYCT) Church Av station in Brooklyn on the Brighton line (B,Q).

Installed across four walls within the station’s newly constructed, ADA-accessible mezzanine, the large‑scale mosaic artwork brings together the storied theatrical histories of Flatbush and the vibrant Caribbean diaspora that continues to define the neighborhood’s cultural life. The commission is Myers’ first completed permanent public artwork and his first work in mosaic.

Titled “If you don’t want your children to know the truth about life don’t send ’em to the theater” (for Kaze and Kaneza), the artwork draws from Myers’ practice of weaving historical research, archival excavation, and mythic narrative into visually rich tableaux. The mosaics, fabricated in glass tesserae by Mosaicos Venecianos de México, unfold as a celebration of spectacle, performance, and the many stages on which Brooklyn communities have expressed themselves for more than a century.

🔗 Learn more about this special commission via the link in bio.

📸: “If you don’t want your children to know the truth about life don’t send ‘em to the theater” (for Kaze and Kaneza) (2026) © Christopher Myers, NYCT Church Av Station. Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design. Photo: Dan Bradica.

NYC

Now on view! “Manifestations of the Voyage” by Liz Nielsen at Grand Central Madison ✨

Ten photograms by unfold as vivid, abstract landscapes shaped entirely by light. The exhibition’s title, borrowed from poet and artist Etel Adnan, gestures toward the inner worlds that emerge in moments of transit.

📍Grand Central Madison, southern concourse

Start manifesting now through September 2026.

Now on view at Grand Central Madison: “Beach Umbrellas/Shore Front Parkway” (2025) by Roe Ethridge. Presented in ten large-scale illuminated displays, this Photography program exhibition features vivid, surreal images taken at Rockaway Beach, where the artist lives and works. ’s “Beach Umbrella” series captures the joyful remnants of summer 2020—broken umbrellas, flip-flops, and sunflowers—while “Shore Front Parkway” traces the shift into autumn with glowing light and dreamlike still lifes. Blending editorial polish with poetic abstraction, these works explore the beauty of everyday rituals and the passage of time.

The exhibition was generously sponsored by Griffin Editions , Berger Textiles , and Underground Visuals , with installation support by OUTFRONT Media .

📍 Grand Central Madison Concourse
🖼️ On view through March 2026
📸 Jason Mandella

Introducing a limited-edition merch collab from and celebrating 40 years of art in transit—and one of the most iconic subway artworks in NYC.

Inspired by For Want of a Nail at the 81 St–Museum of Natural History station, this capsule collection builds on a collaboration between MTA Arts & Design and the Museum in 2000 to create designs that reflect natural history collections and exhibits. The result: a vibrant journey through space, sea, and prehistoric life that welcomes riders into a world of science and imagination.

You can bring these beloved designs above ground and out into the world today! Stop by the Museum Shop this holiday season or check out the collection with the link in bio.

Photos: Alvaro Keding / © AMNH