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Twenty feet above Fulton Avenue in Brooklyn on Saturday, there was a curious art event: Three artists hosted concurrent receptions for the public art they created for three elevated platforms on the Jamaica subway line. The artists — Barbara Ellmann, Amy Cheng, and Jung Hyang Kim — were celebrating the completion of their permanent artwork for MTA Arts in Transit, which since the mid-1980s has commissioned works of art in subway stations throughout the city. During the last year, each artist created a series of large panels in the faceted-glass style that has come to characterize the public art along the J train route. But the week of the inaugural event, there was another familiar sight on the Queensbound line: an unexpected service advisory poster. It announced all three stations would be closed for track maintenance the day of the reception.
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