Arts On The Line
Kendall Square

Station Architect:
Ellenzweig, Moore & Associates, Inc., Cambridge, MA

Commissioned for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
through the Cambridge Arts Council's Arts On The Line program.
Funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Urban Mass
Transportation Administration, and the Massachusetts
Bay Transportation Authority.

Artist: Paul Matisse
Title: The Kendall Band - Kepler, Pythagoras, Galileo
Date: 1987
Materials: Aluminum, teak, steel

Handles located on the platforms allow passengers to play these mobile-like instruments, which are suspended in arches between the tracks, "Kepler" is an aluminum ring that will hum for five minutes after it is struck by the large teak hammer above it. "Pythagoras" consists of a 48-foot row of chimes made from heavy aluminum tubes interspersed with 14 teak hammers. "Galileo" is a large sheet of metal that rattles thunderously when one shakes the handle.