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One-Track Mind: Drawing the New York Subway

Tuesday May 22nd–One-Track Mind: Drawing the New York Subway by Philip Ashforth Coppola, Ezra Bookstein and Jeremy Workman.

6.30pm Book Signing and Reception to follow.

Philip Coppola and colleagues will discuss his exquisite drawings of the New York subway and the background to his project, captured in a new book. Free Admission. For reservations, please click here.

For forty years, Philip Ashforth Coppola has painstakingly documented the NewYork City subway in a series of extraordinary pen-and-ink drawings, meticulously detailing the typography, terra-cotta mosaics, faiences, and tile patterns that millions of riders see every day but rarely notice.

Ezra Bookstein and Jeremy Workman have drawn from the 2,000 pages of Coppola’s sketches to create One-Track Mind: Drawing the New York Subway , giving readers a sample of the drawing that Hyperallergic has called “the most encyclopedic history of the art and architecture of the NewYork City subway system.”

Along with Coppola’s intricate ink drawings are anecdotes he assembled during his research, typically involving hundreds of hours poring through micro lm, to discover all the names behind the artisanship of what is rightly called NewYork’s largest public art project.

Coppola’s hand-drawn illustrations comprise nothing less than “the New York subway’s very own illustrated manuscript.” As Bookstein and Workman explain in their introduction, One-Track Mind was written to serve Coppola’s orginal goal of “bringing attention to the subway’s long forgotten craftspeople. Hopefully, it can also remind NewYorker and visitor alike that that there is beauty all around us.You just have to look.”

One-Track Mind is featured in conjunction with the exhibit, Silver Connections: Subway Drawings by Philip Ashforth Coppola, on view at the New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex at Grand Central Terminal, Feb. 28 through June 24.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural A­ffairs, in partnership with the City Council.











When: Tue., May. 22, 2018 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: The General Society Library
20 W. 44th St.
212-840-1840
Price: Free
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Tuesday May 22nd–One-Track Mind: Drawing the New York Subway by Philip Ashforth Coppola, Ezra Bookstein and Jeremy Workman.

6.30pm Book Signing and Reception to follow.

Philip Coppola and colleagues will discuss his exquisite drawings of the New York subway and the background to his project, captured in a new book. Free Admission. For reservations, please click here.

For forty years, Philip Ashforth Coppola has painstakingly documented the NewYork City subway in a series of extraordinary pen-and-ink drawings, meticulously detailing the typography, terra-cotta mosaics, faiences, and tile patterns that millions of riders see every day but rarely notice.

Ezra Bookstein and Jeremy Workman have drawn from the 2,000 pages of Coppola’s sketches to create One-Track Mind: Drawing the New York Subway , giving readers a sample of the drawing that Hyperallergic has called “the most encyclopedic history of the art and architecture of the NewYork City subway system.”

Along with Coppola’s intricate ink drawings are anecdotes he assembled during his research, typically involving hundreds of hours poring through micro lm, to discover all the names behind the artisanship of what is rightly called NewYork’s largest public art project.

Coppola’s hand-drawn illustrations comprise nothing less than “the New York subway’s very own illustrated manuscript.” As Bookstein and Workman explain in their introduction, One-Track Mind was written to serve Coppola’s orginal goal of “bringing attention to the subway’s long forgotten craftspeople. Hopefully, it can also remind NewYorker and visitor alike that that there is beauty all around us.You just have to look.”

One-Track Mind is featured in conjunction with the exhibit, Silver Connections: Subway Drawings by Philip Ashforth Coppola, on view at the New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex at Grand Central Terminal, Feb. 28 through June 24.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural A­ffairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Buy tickets/get more info now