5 Av/53 St
53rd Street Art Stop, 2000
Porcelain Enamil
These are panels along the downtown platform that are a cross between advertisements and actual art for the local cultural institutions: the Museum of Television and Radio, the Municipal Art Society (documenting its views on the proposed then and now built Hudson River Park between 59 Street and 72 Street that was not built as they desired), the American Folk Art Museum (building at the station closed in 2011), the American Craft Museum (moved in 2008) wthe New York Public Library and Donnell Library Branch above the station (closed in 2008, replaced by the 53 Street library branch that opened in 2016), the Museum of Modern Art, as well as one set of panels about Arts For Transit.
