Ross Miller’s installation at the Red Line’s Andrew station was part of MBTA’s 1993 “Art in Transit” project and was used as a case study of how art can enhance public spaces. Twenty years later exactly, I visited and photographed it as part of my fieldwork. Today, not only is the installation invisible from the outside due to bad lighting and dirty windows, but the T worker at the station’s office wasn’t even aware of it…
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