Nifty story in today's New York Times about The Underbelly Project: a group of street artists who turned an abandoned New York City subway station into an off-limits art gallery. The Times says:
Known to its creators and participating artists as the Underbelly Project, the space, where all the show’s artworks remain, defies every norm of the gallery scene. Collectors can’t buy the art. The public can’t see it. And the only people with a chance of stumbling across it are the urban explorers who prowl the city’s hidden infrastructure or employees of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
That’s because the exhibition has been mounted, illegally, in a long-abandoned subway station. The dank, cavernous hall feels a lot farther than it actually is from the bright white rooms of Chelsea’s gallery district. Which is more or less the point: This is an art exhibition that goes to extremes to avoid being part of the art world, and even the world in general.
Check the NYT article, with a bonus slideshow. The artists' project website is here.
truly urban art. Thanks for letting us timid fans see something that only avant gard explorers get to experience.
Posted by: john carver | 02 November 2010 at 10:08 AM