Lessons of the Hour at Moynihan Train Hall for MoMA

Brief extracts from Isaac Julien's portrait of American abolitionist Frederick Douglass - Lessons of the Hour - populate New York City's Moynihan Train Hall on the occasion of the work's premiere at the Museum of Modern Art.  

The historic Pennsylvania Station, a Beaux Arts masterpiece designed by McKim, Mead & White, opened in 1910. Its demolition in 1963 marked the loss of a beloved architectural and civic landmark in the heart of the city. The state-of-the-art Moynihan Train Hall, completed in December of 2020, is a sensitive yet visionary renovation of the 1912 James A. Farley Post Office, the distinguished sister building to the original Pennsylvania Station.