Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner. RECOMMENDED: See inside Penn Station’s spacious new passenger hall Penn Station’s Half Century by Stan Douglas Photograph: ©Stan Douglas. Each artist has thought deeply about the history, context, significance, and future of this newly transformed place, creating brilliantly innovative works of art that allow us to see ourselves-past, present, and future-in a truly civic space.”īelow are the three artworks you'll see inside Moynihan.
Collectively, they also remind us that great art comes from great ideas.
"Each one dazzles with its sheer beauty, epic scale, and technical mastery. "Nothing could be more fitting for a great metropolitan transit hub than three astonishing works of art that stop us in our tracks," said Nicholas Baume, Director & Chief Curator of Public Art Fund.
Farley Post Office and "a sense of wonder and humanity" that would evoke civic pride and delight for generations to come. Of the original Penn Station and James A. On Wednesday, the Public Art Fund announced that Stan Douglas, artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, and Kehinde Wiley were commissioned to create works for Moynihan that would offer a fresh perspective on the history and grandeur Penn Station's $1.6 billion Moynihan Train Hall features a spacious, light-filled atrium with a 92-foot-high glass skylight and soaring ceilings honoring the design of the original Penn Station, but as with any new transit hub, whether it's a new subway station, airport terminal or a passenger hall like this one, New York calls on its amazing artists to decorate the walls, halls and floors and inspire travelers passing by. These are the singular projects, often born from visionary aspirations and years in the making, that embody the spirit of openness, access, and connectivity that are essential to New York’s continued growth and preeminence.In true New York style, the new Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station, which opens Friday, has been decked out with incredible art. Launched in 2018 and conferred each spring at the Open City Benefit, the Open City Award honors the team behind a newly opened or opening project that makes a sizable contribution to quality of place.
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Thornton Tomasetti/Weidlinger Protective Design Practice/Ducibella Venter & SantoreĬode Consultants Professional Engineers, PCĮach year, Open House New York recognizes a place of singular importance to the past, present, and future of New York City with the Open City Award. Public Art Fund with Stan Douglas, Elmgreen & Dragset, Kehinde Wiley Moynihan Train Hall was named Top 2022 Engineering Achievement by the American Council of Engineering Companies. Not only is Moynihan Train Hall is a globally celebrated civic icon decades in the making, it is also exemplary of OHNY’s core values: promoting access and the power of place.
The design, led by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, honors the historic Farley Building while creating a beautiful and uplifting 21st Century gateway for New Yorkers and visitors alike. The project, championed by the visionary Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the 1990s, expands the existing Penn Station with a 255,000-square-foot, modern rail hub inside the Beaux-Arts Farley Building. More than a century after the construction of the original Penn Station, and almost six decades after its demolition, the opening of the Train Hall in 2021 realized a long-held New York dream. Moynihan Train Hall is one of the most monumental civic projects undertaken in New York City in a generation. Join Host Committee About the Moynihan Train Hall Team
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