Ian Dicke’s “Grand Stage” investigates a microcosm of endless social exchange through digital video loops of passengers traversing the GCT main concourse, filmed by Elisa Ferrari. To further enhance this feeling of timelessness, the musical material and form of “Grand Stage” are extracted from Harry Von Tilzer’s “Last Night Was the End of the World,” which spent 22 weeks at the top of the charts in 1913, the year Grand Central Terminal was opened to the general public. See Ian Dicke’s artwork in the ON TIME/Grand Central at 100 exhibition at the New York Transit Museum Gallery in Grand Central Terminal, on view until July 7th, 2013. Image: Nicole Paiement and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s New Music Ensemble, premiere of Grand Stage on March 2, 2013 in San Francisco, California.
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Ian Dicke’s “Grand Stage” investigates a microcosm of endless social exchange through digital video loops of passengers traversing the GCT main concourse, filmed by Elisa Ferrari. To further enhance this feeling of timelessness, the musical material and form of “Grand Stage” are extracted from Harry Von Tilzer’s “Last Night Was the End of the World,” which spent 22 weeks at the top of the charts in 1913, the year Grand Central Terminal was opened to the general public. See Ian Dicke’s artwork in the ON TIME/Grand Central at 100 exhibition at the New York Transit Museum Gallery in Grand Central Terminal, on view until July 7th, 2013.

Image: Nicole Paiement and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s New Music Ensemble, premiere of Grand Stage on March 2, 2013 in San Francisco, California.

Today, we would like to spotlight painter Olive Ayhens who created two beautiful pieces of artwork for our ONTIME/Grand Central at 100 exhibition. Ayhens hones in on the architectural details from above to create a swirling, bold tapestry of color that conveys the reflection of life both inside and outside Grand Central Terminal. She uses the constellations as the sky above the terminal, freeing them from their earthly architecture. Also, keep a look out for her poster… coming to a subway near you!
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Today, we would like to spotlight painter Olive Ayhens who created two beautiful pieces of artwork for our ONTIME/Grand Central at 100 exhibition. Ayhens hones in on the architectural details from above to create a swirling, bold tapestry of color that conveys the reflection of life both inside and outside Grand Central Terminal. She uses the constellations as the sky above the terminal, freeing them from their earthly architecture. Also, keep a look out for her poster… coming to a subway near you!
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Today, we would like to spotlight painter Olive Ayhens who created two beautiful pieces of artwork for our ONTIME/Grand Central at 100 exhibition. Ayhens hones in on the architectural details from above to create a swirling, bold tapestry of color that conveys the reflection of life both inside and outside Grand Central Terminal. She uses the constellations as the sky above the terminal, freeing them from their earthly architecture. Also, keep a look out for her poster… coming to a subway near you!
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Today, we would like to spotlight painter Olive Ayhens who created two beautiful pieces of artwork for our ONTIME/Grand Central at 100 exhibition. Ayhens hones in on the architectural details from above to create a swirling, bold tapestry of color that conveys the reflection of life both inside and outside Grand Central Terminal. She uses the constellations as the sky above the terminal, freeing them from their earthly architecture. Also, keep a look out for her poster… coming to a subway near you!

As the weather gets warmer, we hope you’ll take a trip to enjoy the beauty of upstate New York! Hop on the MNR Hudson Line and get off at the newly finished Peekskill Station to see Joy Taylor’s artwork, Jan Peeck’s Vine. Inspired by the natural beauty surrounding Peekskill Station, Taylor recreates local indigenous bindweed plants as imaginative structures that morph from rigid girders into flowing tendrils, leaves and flowers. The artwork begins with a pair of painted steel sculptures on the southbound platform that echo the historic elements of the existing station and free them to run riot in a whimsical overhead design. While you’re in Peekskill, check out the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art for some more great pieces of contemporary art!  Above: Joy Taylor, Jan Peeck’s Vine, 2012. Photo Credit: Ken Shung
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As the weather gets warmer, we hope you’ll take a trip to enjoy the beauty of upstate New York! Hop on the MNR Hudson Line and get off at the newly finished Peekskill Station to see Joy Taylor’s artwork, Jan Peeck’s Vine. Inspired by the natural beauty surrounding Peekskill Station, Taylor recreates local indigenous bindweed plants as imaginative structures that morph from rigid girders into flowing tendrils, leaves and flowers. The artwork begins with a pair of painted steel sculptures on the southbound platform that echo the historic elements of the existing station and free them to run riot in a whimsical overhead design. While you’re in Peekskill, check out the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art for some more great pieces of contemporary art!  Above: Joy Taylor, Jan Peeck’s Vine, 2012. Photo Credit: Ken Shung
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As the weather gets warmer, we hope you’ll take a trip to enjoy the beauty of upstate New York! Hop on the MNR Hudson Line and get off at the newly finished Peekskill Station to see Joy Taylor’s artwork, Jan Peeck’s Vine. Inspired by the natural beauty surrounding Peekskill Station, Taylor recreates local indigenous bindweed plants as imaginative structures that morph from rigid girders into flowing tendrils, leaves and flowers. The artwork begins with a pair of painted steel sculptures on the southbound platform that echo the historic elements of the existing station and free them to run riot in a whimsical overhead design. While you’re in Peekskill, check out the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art for some more great pieces of contemporary art!  Above: Joy Taylor, Jan Peeck’s Vine, 2012. Photo Credit: Ken Shung
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As the weather gets warmer, we hope you’ll take a trip to enjoy the beauty of upstate New York! Hop on the MNR Hudson Line and get off at the newly finished Peekskill Station to see Joy Taylor’s artwork, Jan Peeck’s Vine. Inspired by the natural beauty surrounding Peekskill Station, Taylor recreates local indigenous bindweed plants as imaginative structures that morph from rigid girders into flowing tendrils, leaves and flowers. The artwork begins with a pair of painted steel sculptures on the southbound platform that echo the historic elements of the existing station and free them to run riot in a whimsical overhead design. While you’re in Peekskill, check out the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art for some more great pieces of contemporary art!  Above: Joy Taylor, Jan Peeck’s Vine, 2012. Photo Credit: Ken Shung
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As the weather gets warmer, we hope you’ll take a trip to enjoy the beauty of upstate New York! Hop on the MNR Hudson Line and get off at the newly finished Peekskill Station to see Joy Taylor’s artwork, Jan Peeck’s Vine. Inspired by the natural beauty surrounding Peekskill Station, Taylor recreates local indigenous bindweed plants as imaginative structures that morph from rigid girders into flowing tendrils, leaves and flowers. The artwork begins with a pair of painted steel sculptures on the southbound platform that echo the historic elements of the existing station and free them to run riot in a whimsical overhead design. While you’re in Peekskill, check out the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art for some more great pieces of contemporary art!  Above: Joy Taylor, Jan Peeck’s Vine, 2012. Photo Credit: Ken Shung
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As the weather gets warmer, we hope you’ll take a trip to enjoy the beauty of upstate New York! Hop on the MNR Hudson Line and get off at the newly finished Peekskill Station to see Joy Taylor’s artwork, Jan Peeck’s Vine. Inspired by the natural beauty surrounding Peekskill Station, Taylor recreates local indigenous bindweed plants as imaginative structures that morph from rigid girders into flowing tendrils, leaves and flowers. The artwork begins with a pair of painted steel sculptures on the southbound platform that echo the historic elements of the existing station and free them to run riot in a whimsical overhead design. While you’re in Peekskill, check out the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art for some more great pieces of contemporary art! 

Above: Joy Taylor, Jan Peeck’s Vine, 2012. Photo Credit: Ken Shung

We are so excited to introduce our newest permanent project! Located at the Smith-9th Street station in Brooklyn (the highest station in the subway system) Brooklyn-based artist Alyson Shotz was influenced by the local maritime history of the surrounding Gowanus & Red Hook communities to create a series of windows and large wall mosaic in her work, Fathom Points + Compass Bearings and Nautical Charts - Gowanus & Red Hook from 1733-1922. At the 9th Street entrance, four large transom windows, fabricated by Franz Mayer of Munich, are etched with an elegant line drawing depicting an historic plan of a boat hull, built in Brooklyn around 1770. Up ahead, a vivid blue mosaic fabricated by Mosaika dominates the space and riffs on an adapted 1779 nautical map of NY Harbor as seen from the Brooklyn shoreline. Upstairs, there are 26 windows – closed for decades – that now provide stunning views of the harbor and neighborhood with glittering glass featuring historic nautical maps. We love it and think you will, too! Above: Alyson Shots, Fathom Points + Compass Bearings and Nautical Charts - Gowanus & Red Hook from 1733-1922, 2013.                                     Detail: Window in North Passageway and 1776 Nautical Map Photo Credit: Rob Wilson and Lester Burg
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We are so excited to introduce our newest permanent project! Located at the Smith-9th Street station in Brooklyn (the highest station in the subway system) Brooklyn-based artist Alyson Shotz was influenced by the local maritime history of the surrounding Gowanus & Red Hook communities to create a series of windows and large wall mosaic in her work, Fathom Points + Compass Bearings and Nautical Charts - Gowanus & Red Hook from 1733-1922. At the 9th Street entrance, four large transom windows, fabricated by Franz Mayer of Munich, are etched with an elegant line drawing depicting an historic plan of a boat hull, built in Brooklyn around 1770. Up ahead, a vivid blue mosaic fabricated by Mosaika dominates the space and riffs on an adapted 1779 nautical map of NY Harbor as seen from the Brooklyn shoreline. Upstairs, there are 26 windows – closed for decades – that now provide stunning views of the harbor and neighborhood with glittering glass featuring historic nautical maps. We love it and think you will, too! Above: Alyson Shots, Fathom Points + Compass Bearings and Nautical Charts - Gowanus & Red Hook from 1733-1922, 2013.                                     Detail: Window in North Passageway and 1776 Nautical Map Photo Credit: Rob Wilson and Lester Burg
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We are so excited to introduce our newest permanent project! Located at the Smith-9th Street station in Brooklyn (the highest station in the subway system) Brooklyn-based artist Alyson Shotz was influenced by the local maritime history of the surrounding Gowanus & Red Hook communities to create a series of windows and large wall mosaic in her work, Fathom Points + Compass Bearings and Nautical Charts - Gowanus & Red Hook from 1733-1922. At the 9th Street entrance, four large transom windows, fabricated by Franz Mayer of Munich, are etched with an elegant line drawing depicting an historic plan of a boat hull, built in Brooklyn around 1770. Up ahead, a vivid blue mosaic fabricated by Mosaika dominates the space and riffs on an adapted 1779 nautical map of NY Harbor as seen from the Brooklyn shoreline. Upstairs, there are 26 windows – closed for decades – that now provide stunning views of the harbor and neighborhood with glittering glass featuring historic nautical maps. We love it and think you will, too! Above: Alyson Shots, Fathom Points + Compass Bearings and Nautical Charts - Gowanus & Red Hook from 1733-1922, 2013.                                     Detail: Window in North Passageway and 1776 Nautical Map Photo Credit: Rob Wilson and Lester Burg
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We are so excited to introduce our newest permanent project! Located at the Smith-9th Street station in Brooklyn (the highest station in the subway system) Brooklyn-based artist Alyson Shotz was influenced by the local maritime history of the surrounding Gowanus & Red Hook communities to create a series of windows and large wall mosaic in her work, Fathom Points + Compass Bearings and Nautical Charts - Gowanus & Red Hook from 1733-1922. At the 9th Street entrance, four large transom windows, fabricated by Franz Mayer of Munich, are etched with an elegant line drawing depicting an historic plan of a boat hull, built in Brooklyn around 1770. Up ahead, a vivid blue mosaic fabricated by Mosaika dominates the space and riffs on an adapted 1779 nautical map of NY Harbor as seen from the Brooklyn shoreline. Upstairs, there are 26 windows – closed for decades – that now provide stunning views of the harbor and neighborhood with glittering glass featuring historic nautical maps. We love it and think you will, too! Above: Alyson Shots, Fathom Points + Compass Bearings and Nautical Charts - Gowanus & Red Hook from 1733-1922, 2013.                                     Detail: Window in North Passageway and 1776 Nautical Map Photo Credit: Rob Wilson and Lester Burg
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We are so excited to introduce our newest permanent project! Located at the Smith-9th Street station in Brooklyn (the highest station in the subway system) Brooklyn-based artist Alyson Shotz was influenced by the local maritime history of the surrounding Gowanus & Red Hook communities to create a series of windows and large wall mosaic in her work, Fathom Points + Compass Bearings and Nautical Charts - Gowanus & Red Hook from 1733-1922. At the 9th Street entrance, four large transom windows, fabricated by Franz Mayer of Munich, are etched with an elegant line drawing depicting an historic plan of a boat hull, built in Brooklyn around 1770. Up ahead, a vivid blue mosaic fabricated by Mosaika dominates the space and riffs on an adapted 1779 nautical map of NY Harbor as seen from the Brooklyn shoreline. Upstairs, there are 26 windows – closed for decades – that now provide stunning views of the harbor and neighborhood with glittering glass featuring historic nautical maps. We love it and think you will, too!

Above: Alyson Shots, Fathom Points + Compass Bearings and Nautical Charts - Gowanus & Red Hook from 1733-1922, 2013.                                     Detail: Window in North Passageway and 1776 Nautical Map

Photo Credit: Rob Wilson and Lester Burg

Our exhibition ONTIME/Grand Central at 100 features some amazing artists, including Vik Muniz. Inspired by Charles Sheeler’s 1939 iconic image, Rolling Power, which celebrates the Henry Dreyfus-designed New York Central locomotive, Muniz transforms the image though his own meticulous method of hand-crafted paper collage and photography. It’s a striking piece to see in person! The exhibition at the New York Transit Museum Gallery in Grand Central will be on view until July 7th.  Above: Vik Muniz, Rolling Power, after Charles Sheeler, 2008.
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Our exhibition ONTIME/Grand Central at 100 features some amazing artists, including Vik Muniz. Inspired by Charles Sheeler’s 1939 iconic image, Rolling Power, which celebrates the Henry Dreyfus-designed New York Central locomotive, Muniz transforms the image though his own meticulous method of hand-crafted paper collage and photography. It’s a striking piece to see in person! The exhibition at the New York Transit Museum Gallery in Grand Central will be on view until July 7th.  Above: Vik Muniz, Rolling Power, after Charles Sheeler, 2008.
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Our exhibition ONTIME/Grand Central at 100 features some amazing artists, including Vik Muniz. Inspired by Charles Sheeler’s 1939 iconic image, Rolling Power, which celebrates the Henry Dreyfus-designed New York Central locomotive, Muniz transforms the image though his own meticulous method of hand-crafted paper collage and photography. It’s a striking piece to see in person! The exhibition at the New York Transit Museum Gallery in Grand Central will be on view until July 7th. 

Above: Vik Muniz, Rolling Power, after Charles Sheeler, 2008.

Have you stopped by to see our exhibit  ONTIME/Grand Central at 100  yet? Before you step inside the door to the New York Transit Museum Gallery in Grand Central, make sure you stop to see the film on view just outside. This great video by London Squared aims a quirky set of eyes on the everyday at Grand Central in their work Grand Central Diary. ‘Urban Anthropologists,’ Andy and Carolyn London, interview a variety of New Yorkers and visitors to discover what Grand Central means to them. In this lively animation, a range of mundane, normally-silent observers are given voice and use it to philosophize about the secrets, stories and stars of this historic place. (You might have seen other work by London Squared, like this one from the TALK TO ME exhibit at MoMA in 2012.)

Video: London Squared Productions, Grand Central Diary, 2013.

Arts for Transit has so many wonderful projects, new & old, thus we have decided to bring ‘Throw Back Thursday’ into our mix! Our first flash back is to Joe Zucker’s artwork from 1998, entitled For My Grandfather Noye Prode, a Locomotive Engineer. This faceted glass work is located at the Huntington Station on the LIRR. Zucker created a 130-foot fantasy train chugs cartoon-like images associated with Long Island, such as an oversized lobster and jumbo duck. Zucker is currently featured in an exhibition, Empire Descending a Staircase, at the Mary Boone Gallery until April 27th. Here is a New York Time’s Art in Review article by Roberta Smith, all about the show!   Above: Joe Zucker, For My Grandfather Noye Prode, a Locomotive Engineer, 1998. 
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Arts for Transit has so many wonderful projects, new & old, thus we have decided to bring ‘Throw Back Thursday’ into our mix! Our first flash back is to Joe Zucker’s artwork from 1998, entitled For My Grandfather Noye Prode, a Locomotive Engineer. This faceted glass work is located at the Huntington Station on the LIRR. Zucker created a 130-foot fantasy train chugs cartoon-like images associated with Long Island, such as an oversized lobster and jumbo duck. Zucker is currently featured in an exhibition, Empire Descending a Staircase, at the Mary Boone Gallery until April 27th. Here is a New York Time’s Art in Review article by Roberta Smith, all about the show!   Above: Joe Zucker, For My Grandfather Noye Prode, a Locomotive Engineer, 1998. 
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Arts for Transit has so many wonderful projects, new & old, thus we have decided to bring ‘Throw Back Thursday’ into our mix! Our first flash back is to Joe Zucker’s artwork from 1998, entitled For My Grandfather Noye Prode, a Locomotive Engineer. This faceted glass work is located at the Huntington Station on the LIRR. Zucker created a 130-foot fantasy train chugs cartoon-like images associated with Long Island, such as an oversized lobster and jumbo duck. Zucker is currently featured in an exhibition, Empire Descending a Staircase, at the Mary Boone Gallery until April 27th. Here is a New York Time’s Art in Review article by Roberta Smith, all about the show!  

Above: Joe Zucker, For My Grandfather Noye Prode, a Locomotive Engineer, 1998. 

Tonight tonight! We are prepping for tonight’s festivities with poet Billy Collins, who will help us  celebrate Grand Central Terminal’s centennial! Partnering with the Poetry Society of America, we will present Keeping Time/Poets and Musicians Honor Grand Central at 7PM tonight in Vanderbilt Hall of Grand Central Terminal, an evening of poetry and music! Free and open to the public!
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Tonight tonight! We are prepping for tonight’s festivities with poet Billy Collins, who will help us  celebrate Grand Central Terminal’s centennial! Partnering with the Poetry Society of America, we will present Keeping Time/Poets and Musicians Honor Grand Central at 7PM tonight in Vanderbilt Hall of Grand Central Terminal, an evening of poetry and music! Free and open to the public!

Hope you can join us for KEEPING TIME tomorrow! Some incredible poets and musicians will celebrate Grand Central’s centennial in Vanderbilt Hall Wednesday April 10 at 7PM. Poets Jeffery Yang, Aracelis Girmay, Eduardo Corral, Bob Holman, and Marie Howe Billy Collins will join musicians Yaz Band, Mariachi Flor de Toloache, Salieu Suso and The Hot Sardines from MUNY for a night of music and poetry. KEEPING TIME, presented by Arts for Transit and The Poetry Society of America, will celebrate the grand historic place- its architecture, crowds, iconography, and poetics- by keeping time with its grand narrative. Free and open to the public. Limited seating. Hope to see you there! 
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Hope you can join us for KEEPING TIME tomorrow! Some incredible poets and musicians will celebrate Grand Central’s centennial in Vanderbilt Hall Wednesday April 10 at 7PM. Poets Jeffery Yang, Aracelis Girmay, Eduardo Corral, Bob Holman, and Marie Howe Billy Collins will join musicians Yaz Band, Mariachi Flor de Toloache, Salieu Suso and The Hot Sardines from MUNY for a night of music and poetry. KEEPING TIME, presented by Arts for Transit and The Poetry Society of America, will celebrate the grand historic place- its architecture, crowds, iconography, and poetics- by keeping time with its grand narrative. Free and open to the public. Limited seating. Hope to see you there! 
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Hope you can join us for KEEPING TIME tomorrow! Some incredible poets and musicians will celebrate Grand Central’s centennial in Vanderbilt Hall Wednesday April 10 at 7PM. Poets Jeffery Yang, Aracelis Girmay, Eduardo Corral, Bob Holman, and Marie Howe Billy Collins will join musicians Yaz Band, Mariachi Flor de Toloache, Salieu Suso and The Hot Sardines from MUNY for a night of music and poetry. KEEPING TIME, presented by Arts for Transit and The Poetry Society of America, will celebrate the grand historic place- its architecture, crowds, iconography, and poetics- by keeping time with its grand narrative. Free and open to the public. Limited seating. Hope to see you there! 
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Hope you can join us for KEEPING TIME tomorrow! Some incredible poets and musicians will celebrate Grand Central’s centennial in Vanderbilt Hall Wednesday April 10 at 7PM. Poets Jeffery Yang, Aracelis Girmay, Eduardo Corral, Bob Holman, and Marie Howe Billy Collins will join musicians Yaz Band, Mariachi Flor de Toloache, Salieu Suso and The Hot Sardines from MUNY for a night of music and poetry. KEEPING TIME, presented by Arts for Transit and The Poetry Society of America, will celebrate the grand historic place- its architecture, crowds, iconography, and poetics- by keeping time with its grand narrative. Free and open to the public. Limited seating. Hope to see you there! 
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Hope you can join us for KEEPING TIME tomorrow! Some incredible poets and musicians will celebrate Grand Central’s centennial in Vanderbilt Hall Wednesday April 10 at 7PM. Poets Jeffery Yang, Aracelis Girmay, Eduardo Corral, Bob Holman, and Marie Howe Billy Collins will join musicians Yaz Band, Mariachi Flor de Toloache, Salieu Suso and The Hot Sardines from MUNY for a night of music and poetry. KEEPING TIME, presented by Arts for Transit and The Poetry Society of America, will celebrate the grand historic place- its architecture, crowds, iconography, and poetics- by keeping time with its grand narrative. Free and open to the public. Limited seating. Hope to see you there! 
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Hope you can join us for KEEPING TIME tomorrow! Some incredible poets and musicians will celebrate Grand Central’s centennial in Vanderbilt Hall Wednesday April 10 at 7PM. Poets Jeffery Yang, Aracelis Girmay, Eduardo Corral, Bob Holman, and Marie Howe Billy Collins will join musicians Yaz Band, Mariachi Flor de Toloache, Salieu Suso and The Hot Sardines from MUNY for a night of music and poetry. KEEPING TIME, presented by Arts for Transit and The Poetry Society of America, will celebrate the grand historic place- its architecture, crowds, iconography, and poetics- by keeping time with its grand narrative. Free and open to the public. Limited seating. Hope to see you there! 
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Hope you can join us for KEEPING TIME tomorrow! Some incredible poets and musicians will celebrate Grand Central’s centennial in Vanderbilt Hall Wednesday April 10 at 7PM. Poets Jeffery Yang, Aracelis Girmay, Eduardo Corral, Bob Holman, and Marie Howe Billy Collins will join musicians Yaz Band, Mariachi Flor de Toloache, Salieu Suso and The Hot Sardines from MUNY for a night of music and poetry. KEEPING TIME, presented by Arts for Transit and The Poetry Society of America, will celebrate the grand historic place- its architecture, crowds, iconography, and poetics- by keeping time with its grand narrative. Free and open to the public. Limited seating. Hope to see you there! 
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Hope you can join us for KEEPING TIME tomorrow! Some incredible poets and musicians will celebrate Grand Central’s centennial in Vanderbilt Hall Wednesday April 10 at 7PM. Poets Jeffery Yang, Aracelis Girmay, Eduardo Corral, Bob Holman, and Marie Howe Billy Collins will join musicians Yaz Band, Mariachi Flor de Toloache, Salieu Suso and The Hot Sardines from MUNY for a night of music and poetry. KEEPING TIME, presented by Arts for Transit and The Poetry Society of America, will celebrate the grand historic place- its architecture, crowds, iconography, and poetics- by keeping time with its grand narrative. Free and open to the public. Limited seating. Hope to see you there! 

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