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Leo Villareal + the art of the MTA

October 22, 2012

Leo Villareal's <em>Hive (Bleecker Street),</em> 2012, at the Bleecker Street/Lafayette Street subway station

Leo Villareal’s Hive (Bleecker Street), 2012. Courtesy of the MTA.

Broadway-Lafayette Street/Bleecker Street Leo Villareal Hive (Bleecker Street), 2012

Leo Villareal’s Hive (Bleecker Street), 2012. Courtesy of the MTA.

Check out Leo Villareal’s new work, Hive (Bleecker Street), commissioned by the MTA and unveiled at the Bleeker/Lafayette subway station last month. Love it. Public art 4ever. Don’t miss the other permanent art installations at the MTA, which include work by Ballroom alums Mel Chin (F train, Broadway-Lafayette) and Robert Wilson (F train, Coney Island) and non-Ballroom alum Sol LeWitt (A/C train, Columbus Circle).