Untapped Cities

The Mid-Century Subway Station Designed by Architect Philip Johnson at 49th Street

Architect Philip Johnson is most known for his modernist buildings like New York City’s the Seagram Building and the David A. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, but did you know he also had a hand in ...
Artnet

Meet the Artist Creating Insanely-Detailed Drawings of New York’s Subway

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has 469 subway stations, and Philip Ashforth Coppola has a plan to draw all of them, tile by tile. Since 1978, Coppola has been documenting the intricate ...
Untapped Cities

Philip Ashforth Coppola Has Been Drawing Art from the NYC Subway Since 1978

Calling to mind other obsessive documentary projects by New York area residents, New Jersey resident,Philip Ashforth Coppola, has been documenting the art inside the New York City subway system as ...
The New Yorker

Sketching the M.T.A. with a Subway Archeologist

One rainy afternoon, Philip Ashforth Coppola got on the No. 4 train heading toward Nevins Street, in Brooklyn. Taking a seat, he pulled a massive paperback labelled “Silver Connections: Volume III” ...
The New York Times

A Treasury of Artwork in the Subway

Philip Ashforth Coppola set out in July 1978 to document the artistic décor of the New York City subway system in words and line drawings, figuring he'd be finished in a couple of months. He's still ...