Online
Gallery Talk –
Subway Style: Architecture and Design in the New York City Subway
Conceived
over a century ago as a great public
work, New York City’s subway
system melded innovative engineering
with stylish architecture and interior
design. Today, the system is such an
essential part of city life that it
is easy to overlook its design features.
Based on an exhibit by the same
name, this online gallery talk features
photographer Andrew
Garn,
New York Transit Museum associate curator Carissa Amash, and
assistant project manager Dana Zullo discussing images that
are part of the Subway Style exhibit. The virtual gallery talk showcases
examples of architecture, ceramics, metalwork, lighting, signage and furnishings,
and provides some behind-the-scenes insight into the capturing of the images
for the exhibit.
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access this recorded talk,
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Online Gallery Talk –
New York’s Forgotten Substations: The Power Behind the Subway
This
recorded online session features
a gallery talk with Christopher
Payne,
photographer and author of New
York’s
Forgotten Substations: The Power Behind
the Subway.
The recorded webcast is based on an
exhibit by the same name now on display
in
the newly created art
gallery on the Museum's mezzanine.
Payne discusses his
exhibition of photographs
of turn-of-the-century power substations
that once housed huge mechanical rotary
generators
that converted standard alternating
current (AC) power to the direct current,
or DC power, needed
to drive New York City’s subway system.
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Online Gallery Talk –
"The World's Safest Railroad"
How Ivy Lee Promoted New York's Subway System, 1916–1932
Ivy
Lee was a noted advertising man who
early on worked on promoting the IRT
subway. Transit Museum senior curator
Charles Sachs and
prominent public relations industry
veteran Chester
Burger talk
about those early days of advertising
and special
promotions created to entice New Yorkers
to the new subway system. The launch
of this Online Gallery Talk coincided
with the exhibition,
The World’s
Safest Railroad: How Ivy Lee Promoted
New York’s Subway System, 1916-1932,
which was on view at the Museum’s
Grand Central Terminal Gallery Annex
during the subway centennial year.
To
access this recorded talk, click
the "See Webcast" button to
the right. The Online Gallery Talk webcast
requires Flash and
speakers or headphones. Note: You may
need to turn off pop-up blocking software
before launching.
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