NEW YORK ¨C As workers busily finished construction of the brand-new train station Grand Central Madison in November, artist Kiki Smith was standing in front of her new mosaic ¡°River Light,¡± an abstracted, blue-and-white depiction of glinting sunshine on the East River.
¡°I¡¯ve never made a mosaic before,¡± she says, pausing to touch the varied surfaces of the small and colorful glass pieces making up the composition. She adds, ¡°I¡¯ve also never made anything so big in my life.¡±
The 80-foot-long work is on the Madison Concourse level of Grand Central Madison, the 700,000-square-foot, $11.1 billion Long Island Rail Road terminal set to open in December. The terminal is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority¡¯s largest project yet.
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