For the month of January, New York city cabs will be sporting art by Shirin Neshat, Alex Katz and Yoko Ono.

It’d work better in Seattle, where the cabs drive so slowly I’d be able to write a full review of the art before it passed. Bunch of turtles.

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...

2 replies on “Taxi Art in New York”

  1. God bless you Jen, for noticing. The most aggressive, best drivers in other cities become cabbies. Here, the lamest, most risk-averse pathetic types drive cabs. What’s up with that? When I’m a passenger, they uniformly drive me insane. And God forbid I have to follow a cab northbound on First Avenue. Is there some kind of conscientious objector status to driving aggressively that automatically directs cab drivers to Seattle. Help!

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