Welcome to the Artist Highlight Playlist created to complement our exhibition Tradition Transformed. This playlist features the interviews with the artists, offering insights into their works and personal artistic journeys. Join us in celebrating the evolution of ink art and the innovative voices shaping its future.

Anyone who enters the New York City subway at Delancey Street is bound to notice the striking mosaic portraits of fish heads inlaid in the station’s white-tile walls. Bordered in gold, with shades of pink, purple and blue, they give their iridescentsubjects all the majesty of a king or queen on an ancient coin, but with a air of whimsy.

Commuters who continue downstairs to board the F train will discover a mosaic of three enormous shad covering one walland a gracious, spreading cherry orchard on the wall across the tracks.