Historic Broadway station

Historic Broadway station is home to four Metro Art-commissioned artworks.

The station's glass entry pavilion is wrapped in Andrea Bowers' The People United (“El pueblo unido jamás será vencido,” Sergio Ortega and Quilapayun; “Brown Beret 13 Point Political Program,” La Causa) which features text artwork of revolutionary slogans such as “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido” (the people united will never be divided) and “By independence we mean the right to self-determination, self-government and freedom.”

According to Metro Art, "the first text is often heard chanted at marches and political demonstrations around the world". It originated in Chile between 1969 and 1973 in support of Salvador Allende’s presidential election and evolved into an anthem composed by Sergio Ortega for the Chilean Popular Unity coalition. The second is taken from a mission statement of the Brown Berets, a Chicano civil rights group founded in East Los Angeles and active during the late 1960s and early 1970s."^[11]

On the mezzanine level of the station, you can find Mark Steven Greenfield's glass mosaic named Red Car Requiem, a "sentimental tribute" to the Los Angeles Pacific Electric Red Cars. The artwork represents different destinations along a route, rendered in red, orange, and yellow hues of the Red Cars. It features a series of rosette-like clusters of curvilinear shapes that are connected by sweeping lines. Each rosette contains unique shapes that were once punched into Red Car passenger tickets.^[12]

Along the walls of the station platform is a mural by photojournalist Clarence Williams, entitled Migrations, and a temporary lightbox art installation by Ralph Gilbert, Performance on the Streets of LA.

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