"Losing My Marbles" by Lisa Dinhofer

Spanning 32 feet along the mezzanine walls at the 42nd Street - Port Authority Bus terminal subway station is Lisa Dinhofer’s “Losing My Marbles,” a glass mosaic work depicting toy marbles, challenging the viewer’s imagination by playing with illusions that alter physical perceptions of space and movement. Dinhofer describes herself as an ‘illusionist’ artist rather than a ‘realist,’ as the spaces she creates in her artwork are believable, but not actually real. Rather, she designs and invents her own space in her work. Installed in 2003, the work is one of many in the MTA’s “Art for Transit” initiative, which encourages the use of public transit by presenting visual and performing arts projects in subway and commuter rail stations, while simultaneously increasing access to public art. The permanent art program is one of the largest and most diverse collections of site-specific public art in the world, with over 300 works by world famous, mid-career, and emerging artists alike. 

“NYC LOVE” by Nina Chanel Abney

Newly adorning the High Line on the West Side of Manhattan is a mural by artist Nina Chanel Abney, entitled NYC LOVE. The piece is an homage to and celebration of New York City via its iconography. Abney first moved to New York as a self-described Midwestern suburbanite in 2005, and found great comfort and joy in some of the city’s more tourist-oriented icons that many longtime New Yorkers take for granted. NYC LOVE brings these icons to the forefront, recreating the joys of first experiencing those stimulating sights and sounds in Abney’s signature bright colors and geometric forms. The work graces the High Line, an icon in and of itself, welcoming millions of New Yorkers and visitors alike to enjoy all that the city has to offer. Like Abney, we have only love and gratitude for this city we call home.  

Holidays in Miami

As people around the world celebrate Hanukkah, menorahs are lit daily. For over twenty years, Miami Beach artist Roger Abramson’s (@roger.abramson) Menorah and Dreidel made entirely of seashells have become a staple to celebrate the Festival of Lights on iconic Lincoln Road in South Beach. These beautiful sculptures are made up of seashells collected by the artist, who notes his art “represents respect, freedom, family and democracy.”

Happy Hanukkah!

“Your Voices” by Es Devlin

With more than 700 languages spoken in a mere 300 square miles of land, New York City is the most linguistically diverse place in the world, and a new moving sculpture in Lincoln Center’s Josie Robertson Plaza pays homage to that diversity in a unique visual and auditory way. “Your Voices” by artist Es Devlin features 700 glowing cords to represent each of those 700 languages, positioned between glowing arcs which rotate while a multinational soundscape plays, adding to the Holiday landscape currently adorning Lincoln Center. Made in association with the Endangered Language Alliance, which has created an interactive map showing the locations across the city where each of the 700 languages are spoken, the piece intends to “evoke the way our perspectives are enriched and shaped by experiencing the linguistic structures and identities of others” while a soundscape composed by contemporary composers Polyphonia plays text from EM Forster’s 1910 novel Howards End in multiple overlaid languages, stating: “Only connect, and live in fragments no longer.”