This has gotten a lot of media attention lately, but if you haven't heard of this, definitely check it out. Some NYC street artists found an abandoned, empty subway station space and renovated it for art space. No one was invited though, it's entirely illegal, and you can't buy anything. 103 street artists from around the world snuck in over the course of a year, in 4 hour intervals - deep underground in an undisclosed location somewhere under Williamsburg.
New York Times reports:
"The New York City police have arrested 20 people for trying to enter an abandoned subway station housing the formerly secret guerrilla exhibition of underground street art that was revealed to the public this month.
The clandestine gallery has attracted urban explorers eager to catch a glimpse of dozens of provocative, large-scale installations created by more than 100 street artists who sneaked into the station over the course of a year.
While the police are taking a hard line on keeping people away — “This is not an art gallery; this is completely illegal,” one officer said — the paintings in what the artists called the Underbelly Project are likely to live on. Subway officials said they had no plans to paint over the artwork, even if they sincerely hoped nobody ever got to see it again."
Original article here
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