Cool art in Penn Station

There just can't be enough art in public places. From The Art Newspaper: "The future of Penn Station, Manhattan’s infamously dispiriting train hub beneath the Madison Square Garden arena, remains uncertain as politicians, real estate developers and community groups debate the merits of competing modernisation schemes. In the meantime, national rail company Amtrak is enlivening its spaces in the subterranean complex with new public art commissions and expanding its public art programme to other stations. Installations by New Jersey-based artists Shoshanna Weinberger and David Rios Ferreira, organised by curator Debra Simon under the Art at Amtrak initiative, were unveiled in early August and will remain on view until January 2024. Rios Ferreira’s Get Carried Away, You Have the Right (2023) spans four double-height columns, two friezes and a central mural in a large rotunda, melding ancient and futuristic imagery. Each of the columns features a towering, hybrid figure whose elements draw from Indigenous and pre-Hispanic traditions, as well as sources including comic books and imagery the artist found in Amtrak’s archives."