Subway posters

There are 2 kinds of posters in the New York City subway system. The first is ads, they are more numerous though typically less interesting (except for the public service posters those can be pretty odd), and the second is the public art that the MTA puts up to broaden New Yorkers appreciation of transit inspired and themed artistic expressions. These change from time to time, over the summer there was on in a lot of subway cars of a lady's arm and hand. Her arm was covered in a sleeve with a print of all the rail line symbols. She was wearing a bracelet that was supposed to look like a large suspension bridge and two rings. The first ring was meant to be a cityscape and the second was what I suppose was a subway token (something I have never seen in person) I am not sure what it was supposed to represent, but it wasn't to freaky. The more recent "Art in Transit" poster is far more troubling to me it is kind of a post modern/comic book inspired amalgam of bridges, a couple of skyscrapers that look like they are from Paris rather than New York, and half of the Washington Square Arch. In the center of the poster is a bunny in full stride wearing a bib made out of the same material the lady's sleeve was, and on top of the bunny's back are some commuters, what the fuck. I think it is an homage to bus commuters and animal cruelty or something. First if the rabbit is supposed to be a bus, it seems like it would be a very uncomfortable and unstable ride, and second of all this is the twenty-first century, do we really think that using bunnies for transportation is accpetable? My point is art is great and public art is even better, but those posters suck, and that is all I really wante to say about that.

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