New York City's Second Avenue Subway is a wonderland of public art
Rush hour has never been so
culturally enriching.
Spread
out across the station’s platforms and entrances, Muniz’s rather perfect
“Perfect Strangers” is made up of a motley crew of three-dozen life-sized
characters who are waiting for the train to arrive — some more patiently than
others. These faces wear the expressions of New York City subway riders:
distracted, bored, bemused, bedraggled, annoyed, impatient, indifferent.
These colorful everyday “real” New Yorkers — in actuality, the highly
detailed mosaics are based on staged portraits of Muniz’s New York-dwelling
friends who agreed to play dress up and pose — come in all shapes and sizes and
colors: a subway saxophonist, an off-duty furry in a tiger costume, a child grasping for a
balloon, a popsicle-wielding cop and a hand-holding gay couple.
The latter mosaic, depicting
husbands Thor Stockman and Patrick Kellogg, is believed to be the first
permanent, non-political LGBT artwork in New York City. “They are just people
you would expect to see," Muniz, a lauded multimedia artist best known for
socially conscious works that incorporate rubbish plucked from the sprawling landfills of Rio de
Janeiro, explains to the AP. "You
would expect to see men holding hands." (
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