Subway Post-It Art Finds a New Home, Activists Attacked After Leaving NY Gallery

Artist Matthew Chavez’s public art project about the presidential election will be moved to the New-York Historical Society.

People stick a Post-It note to participate in the art piece 'Subway Therapy' at the Union Square subway station in New York on November 17, 2016 "Subway Therapy" allows people to express their thoughts with the public, and began after the November 8, 2016 US presidential election.
People stick a Post-It note to participate in the art piece Subway Therapy at the Union Square subway station in New York on November 17, 2016. Kena Betancurk/AFP/Getty Images

Artist Matthew Chavez’s public art project Subway Therapy, which invited commuters passing through New York’s Union Square subway station to write responses to the presidential election on Post-it notes and affix them to the walls, will be moved to the New-York Historical Society. (Art Newspaper)

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Subway Post-It Art Finds a New Home, Activists Attacked After Leaving NY Gallery