{"id":1699,"date":"2012-12-07T15:07:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T20:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2012-12-10T15:12:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T20:12:07","slug":"leo-villareal-on-the-6-train-platform-at-bleeker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/07\/leo-villareal-on-the-6-train-platform-at-bleeker\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Villareal on the 6 train platform at Bleeker"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1700\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/leo_villareal_hive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1700\" title=\"Leo Villareal, Hive (Bleeker Street), LED tubes, custom software, electrical hardware, aluminum, stainless steel, 2012.\" src=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/leo_villareal_hive-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Leo Villareal, Hive (Bleeker Street), LED tubes, custom software, electrical hardware, aluminum, stainless steel, 2012.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/leo_villareal_hive-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/leo_villareal_hive-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/leo_villareal_hive.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leo Villareal, Hive (Bleeker Street), LED tubes, custom software, electrical hardware, aluminum, stainless steel, 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Not every piece of art commissioned by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mta.info\/mta\/aft\/permanentart\/permart.html?agency=nyct&amp;line=6&amp;artist=1&amp;station=22\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolitan Transit Authority<\/a> ends up looking great in the subway system, but that\u2019s not the case with this instantly enticing new installation by noted light artist Leo Villareal titled \u2018Hive (Bleeker Street)\u2019 on the uptown 6 platform at Bleeker.\u00a0 Created from LED tubes, aluminum and stainless steel, the honeycomb patterned lights constantly shift color, creating a welcome distraction for worker bees. (On permanent display).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not every piece of art commissioned by the Metropolitan Transit Authority ends up looking great in the subway system, but that\u2019s not the case with this instantly enticing new installation by noted light artist Leo Villareal titled \u2018Hive (Bleeker Street)\u2019 on the uptown 6 platform at Bleeker.\u00a0 Created from LED tubes, aluminum and stainless steel, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/07\/leo-villareal-on-the-6-train-platform-at-bleeker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leo Villareal on the 6 train platform at Bleeker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[143,615,616,612,613,617,614],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","tag-art-tours","tag-arts-for-transit-and-urban-design","tag-hive-bleeker-street","tag-leo-villareal","tag-mta-art","tag-public-art-in-new-york","tag-subway-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-rp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}