The designs are still under wraps, but Smith said in a statement that her piece would “bring the beauty of the eastern shores of Long Island and the East River light to life.” In a statement, the governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, said that the new terminal is a transformative change for the Long Island Rail Road, and “will serve as a symbol of New York’s world renowned arts and culture scene.” Smith and Kusama were chosen by a committee of arts professionals and transit authority staffers in 2020, after an open call for portfolios. “The art has to match the caliber of the aspirations and stature of the facility.” “It had to be top-tier artists,” Janno Lieber, the M.T.A.’s chair and chief executive, said in an interview. Arts & Design, which commissions art for the transit authority, is announcing Friday: Kiki Smith, a longtime resident known for her figurative work, and Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese sculptor and installation artist who lived in the city from 1958 to 1975.
The terminal will also be an underground gallery of sorts, featuring enormous mosaics by two female artists with strong New York City connections, M.T.A. Once known as East Side Access, the terminal was carved out of Manhattan bedrock and stretches underneath Madison Avenue from East 43rd to East 48th Streets.
At 700,000 square feet, Grand Central Madison, the new Long Island Rail Road terminal opening in December, has an impressive scale: It is costing the Metropolitan Transportation Authority more than $11 billion, and the project, its largest ever, has been underway since 2006.
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