#bleeckersreet

One of the star attractions of this year’s Armory Show is Leo Villareal’s 75-foot-long “Star Ceiling” installed between the two piers, which is the largest digital-media artwork ever presented in the fair’s 25-year history. “You have to see it in person, pictures don’t do it justice,” he said. And if you don’t make it to the Armory, Leo Villeareal’s fields of light can be experienced every day by New Yorkers at the Bleecker Street/Lafayette Street (6) station. “Hive (Bleecker Street)” (2012) lights up the station ceiling with a honeycomb pattern of LED lights. Villareal has said that art serves as a portal for him, “something that takes the viewer to another place.”