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Artists who create art from New York City MetroCards are facing the end of an era as the cards are phased out. An exhibit at the New York Transit Museum will showcase their work, but the artists are struggling to find enough cards to continue their craft.

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Artists who create art from New York City MetroCards are facing the end of an era as the cards are phased out. An exhibit at the New York Transit Museum will showcase their work, but the artists are struggling to find enough cards to continue their craft.
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    "parsed_content": "Two decades ago, Shih-Pao Lin began collecting MetroCards, the pocket-size blue-and-yellow transit passes used on New York City\u2019s subways and buses, because they were bright, pliable and bountiful.He was among a small band of artists who for years had found inspiration, steady pay or a measure of fame by crafting sculptures, collages and mosaics out of the floppy cards.Consider Mr. Lin\u2019s poodle, Hope, a four-and-a-half-foot-tall metal sculpture wrapped in more than 3,000 MetroCards. He has since collected more than 30,000 of the passes and has used them to build a menagerie, with a beast representing every month of the Chinese Zodiac.\u201cThe story is the MetroCard,\u201d Mr. Lin, 64, said about his medium, which debuted in 1994 and represents something egalitarian: Just about every New Yorker has one.Or had one. In January, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city\u2019s public transit system, ceased all sales of the iconic card and replaced it with a new tap-and-go system. Suddenly, the city\u2019s plastic muse was gone.Despite the dwindling number of MetroCards available, Mr. Lin says he plans to keep using them. He has made a miniature model of a MetroCard Christmas tree and hopes to construct a 10-foot version.ImageMr. Lin has scoured subway floors for MetroCards, badgered friends for spares, and even taken up a collection box at sympathetic churches.Credit...Vincent Alban\/The New York TimesOn March 16, the New York Transit Museum will open an exhibit in Grand Central Terminal showcasing some of the city\u2019s foremost MetroCard artists.But the exhibit, called \u201cInspired by MetroCard,\u201d is cold comfort for the artists enjoying a resurgence of interest in their work just as the cards are vanishing.Some are resorting to buying leftover cards from price-gouging resellers. Others are counting and recounting their dwindling stashes to plan their next pieces.Mostly, they are wondering how long they can keep going.\u201cThey\u2019re probably going through the stages of grief,\u201d said Jodi Shapiro, the curator of the museum. \u201cThe worst thing for an artist is to have to stop completely.\u201dThomas McKean, a children\u2019s book author whose art will be featured in the exhibit, said he still had not come to grips with the end of the MetroCard.\u201cThis has been my medium for a quarter of a century,\u201d he said.From his apartment in the East Village and a studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Mr. McKean says he has used at least 100,000 cards to create collages and miniature models of New York iconography.A Yankees baseball cap. A yellow taxi cab. A row of tenements. All were rendered in the limited color palette of the MetroCard \u2014 mainly yellow and blue, with hints of brown, white and black, though some varieties came in different colors. That was part of the fun, Mr. McKean said.\u201cThis has been my medium for a quarter of a century,\u201d Thomas McKean said.ImageMr. McKean\u2019s apartment is filled with MetroCard art. A 3-D model of tenements required more than 1,000 cards. A dragon, named Token Dracortem, is perched above the buildings.Credit...Vincent Alban\/The New York TimesHe still hopes to complete a series of collages inspired by his family\u2019s history of immigration to New York and the buildings and places they occupied.But he has known for years that the MetroCard\u2019s days were numbered.Its replacement, a contactless system called OMNY, began rolling out in 2019. But the pandemic delayed the system\u2019s widespread use, and it wasn\u2019t until last March that the authority set a drop-dead deadline of the end of the year for most commuters to make the switch.He said he had tried to embrace the OMNY card, a thicker black-and-white piece of plastic without its predecessor\u2019s panache. In his first go at using it in a creation, a collage of a modernist building near his home, he cheated and used bits of MetroCards to add some blue to the windows.\u201cIt was like cooking with margarine instead of butter,\u201d he said.Mr. McKean, whose artworks have sold for more than $600 apiece, is planning to release new work in March, but his supply is low \u2014 about 5,000 cards, stuffed in boxes and plastic bags near his desk.He used to restock on sites like eBay, but an order of 100 cards, which once cost him $30, can now run him hundreds of dollars.Some artists were better prepared than others. Nina Boesch, 47, whose work, including a MetroCard collage of Katz\u2019s Delicatessen, will be featured in the show, may have the biggest private stash in the city.\u201cYeah, no, I\u2019m good,\u201d she said, as she tallied her hoard: about 90,000 cards. \u201cI\u2019ve got them scattered in different places because I\u2019m so paranoid.\u201dShe said she had made more money on MetroCard art in the last few months than she made all of last year. Tightening supply pushed her to raise her prices about 20 percent since October. Her smallest pieces cost $90, while her biggest pieces, 40-by-30-inch collages, can sell for about $4,500.ImageNina Boesch, 47, whose MetroCard collage of Katz\u2019s Delicatessen will be featured in the show.Credit...Vincent Alban\/The New York TimesMs. Boesch may have the biggest private stash of MetroCards in the city. She credits her stash to the kindness of strangers, who\u2019ve donated cards to her over the years, as well as the Broadway Green Alliance, a nonprofit group that has helped her collect expired cards from theater workers.Juan Carlos Pinto, whose work includes MetroCard portraits of James Baldwin and Debbie Harry, said he was ready to say goodbye to the card, but not its perks. He said he had just sold a set of four portraits to a New York hotel for $8,000.\u201cI feel like a musician on the Titanic,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m one of the only artists who can pay their mortgage with the garbage of the subway.\u201dThe M.T.A. ordered 3.2 billion MetroCards in the decades they were in use. Much of the remaining inventory, most likely tens of thousands or more, was recently stored in a high-security facility in Maspeth, Queens.Aaron Donovan, a spokesman for the authority, said it had not determined what would happen to the remaining cards. But last summer, a transit official at the Queens facility said in an interview that many could be sent to an incinerator.For Mr. Lin, who has spent two decades scavenging for the cards, the thought was painful. At his studio inside a factory for Crystal Windows in Flushing, Queens, he has plans to build a 10-foot-tall MetroCard Christmas tree, a tribute to the many people who have gifted him cards. He said he would need 15,000 cards, but he\u2019s down to his last few hundred.He would also like more cards to repair his Zodiac statues, some of which were damaged in 2024, when he displayed them inside the Oculus transportation hub in Lower Manhattan.If he can get the statues in shape, Mr. Lin said he might seek $400,000 for the set and donate the proceeds to a charity he started that supports peace efforts in Ukraine.Ms. Shapiro, the museum curator, said she sympathized with the artists, but doesn\u2019t know the fate of the remaining cards.\u201cIf I had a magic wand,\" she said, \u201cI would wave it.\u201dStefanos Chen\u00a0is a Times reporter covering New York City\u2019s transit system.See more on: N.Y. Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York Transit MuseumRead 9 commentsShare full articleRelated ContentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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Two decades ago, Shih-Pao Lin began collecting MetroCards, the pocket-size blue-and-yellow transit passes used on New York City’s subways and buses, because they were bright, pliable and bountiful.He was among a small band of artists who for years had found inspiration, steady pay or a measure of fame by crafting sculptures, collages and mosaics out of the floppy cards.Consider Mr. Lin’s poodle, Hope, a four-and-a-half-foot-tall metal sculpture wrapped in more than 3,000 MetroCards. He has since collected more than 30,000 of the passes and has used them to build a menagerie, with a beast representing every month of the Chinese Zodiac.β€œThe story is the MetroCard,” Mr. Lin, 64, said about his medium, which debuted in 1994 and represents something egalitarian: Just about every New Yorker has one.Or had one. In January, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city’s public transit system, ceased all sales of the iconic card and replaced it with a new tap-and-go system. Su...

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