Wicked cool art in "public" spaces

How did you get to work today? I took the subway, got off at Bay station and walked out through the Cumberland entrance. But today was not like any other day.

By the time lunch hour came around there was a red carpet and attractive women in black dresses behind the velvet rope. I little much for an entrance to the subway if you ask me. So naturally, I enquired and I'm glad that I did.

One of the beauties took us down into Lower Bay station. (There's Bay station which is currently used and then there's Lower Bay which is mainly used for film shoots) Today it was being used as the space for an art installation by Justin Broadbent, which will later serve as the backdrop to a "private party". That part is lame, but the fact that we got to scope it out before hand is awesome!

Broadbent used subway cars and transformed them into different themed compartments. One was now a forest, another a hip lounge with chandeliers, another was filled with flowers and love letters.


I love the idea of putting art in public spaces. Let's face it. Not everyone will go to a gallery, but most will hop on the train. If only the subway could be that much fun every day......