Life Underground — Attraction in New York

Deep underground within the 14th/8th Street Subway station is the most amazing fantastical excursion into art with the Tom Otterness sculpture collection known collectively as Life Underground. I spent about an hour and a half walking through the station trying to find all of the sculptures. I found most of them and I really enjoyed the experience of exploring looking for more. Amazingly when I would get down on the floor or climb to photograph something some of the locals would look to see what I was doing and start because they had not noticed the statues before. I had quite a few interesting conversations with people who were noticing what I was noticing and they'd used the station for years. The MTA Police were onto the game though and one officer when I missed one kindly pointed it out. I guess they're used to watching people come in and discover. What a wonderful experience. You really need to visit this if you're in...

A permanent exhibition of more than 100 artistic pieces of cast bronze. Some are easily visible, but others require a long search. They are sculptures of a size of 10 or 12 inches, the most emblematic is the "sewer alligator". The dirtiness of the environment discourages the a...

Life Underground is a series of sculptures depicting human life with tiny simple people, and I love it. They turn a train station into a little adventure, adding joy to the mundane. This is art...