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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Museums without Walls: the MTA and the Met Intersect
Thursday, February 6, 2025
6:00 PM ET / Doors open 5:45 PM ET
On-Site Program
$15 / Members $10
The current exhibition Flight Into Egypt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art features several artists whose works can be experienced throughout the MTA system. This inclusion of public artwork in a groundbreaking museum exhibition highlights MTA Arts & Design’s leadership role in adding site-specific museum-worthy art into North America’s largest mass transit system. Since the 1980s, MTA Arts & Design has commissioned work that reflects the people and the diversity in the MTA’s service region while also being at the vanguard of broader trends and themes in contemporary art.
Join Akili Tommasino, curator of the Flight into Egypt exhibition, contemporary artists Damien Davis and Chloë Bass who have artwork in the system, and Yaling Chen, Deputy Director of MTA Arts & Design to discuss how artists have been commissioned to make meaningful connections to transit stations and to the neighborhoods, communities, and riders they serve.
Tickets for this event are $10 for museum members and $15 for the general public.
For members the discount is applied at checkout.
Children ages 15 and under must be accompanied by an adult.
Photography and video recording are permitted. However, tripods, stands, selfie sticks, and external lights may not be used. All photographs taken are for personal use only and permission to photograph may be revoked at any time.
Accessibility: For information on accessibility questions please visit nytransitmuseum.org/accessibility or email [email protected].
All ticket sales are final. Should you be unable to attend the program on the date you reserved, the full price of unused tickets may be treated as a donation to the Transit Museum and is tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. The Museum is not able to provide refunds or reschedule reservations to another date.
Questions? Email [email protected].
Image courtesy of MTA Arts & Design. “Empirical Evidence” (2021) by Damien Davis, installed on the 3rd Avenue Bridge in Mount Vernon. Photo by Etienne Frossard.
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