So Much Art! (and buses)

When people ask me if I like living in Chicago and if I miss living in Western Massachusetts, I have to say yes and yes. I miss many things about Western Massachusetts, including the landscape and the music scene, but I also love things about Chicago, particularly all the art. I mean, there is even art on the bus shelters sometimes!

It is kind of hard to take good pictures of it, and I often only see the shelters through the bus windows but here are two from a series called She Who Sits by Adrienne Elise Tarver that appeared on bus shelters from last August to November.

Now, there is a new series by Paul Anthony and I noticed it was installed by the Public Art Fund. Googling led to their website and this description of the series that currently appears on Chicago, New York, and Boston bus shelters:

“The exhibition title, Melodies from a running spring, suggests the artist’s dreams or visions from Jamaica. Each piece features a photographic portrait—sometimes of a single figure, other times two—set in a natural landscape. Smith’s picotage disrupts these photographs in various ways: their backgrounds are sliced by geometric grids, the landscape is obscured by fields of perforation, and in some cases, the figures dissolve almost entirely into texture.”

And of course, another thing I love about Chicago are the buses themselves. People here complain about them a lot, but coming from a place with virtually no public transportation, I find them amazing!