From David Hammons, a Tribute to Pier 52 and Lastingness
Their artistic paths crossed like ships in the night. But at long last, two New York legends meet in “Day’s End,” an immortalizing homage by Hammons to Gordon Matta-Clark and art history.
“Day’s End,” David Hammons’s site-specific sculpture in Hudson River Park, reimagines the vanished Pier 52 as an open-air pavilion.Credit.Simbarashe Cha for The New York Times
May 13, 2021, 1:39 p.m. ET
In 2014, the director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Adam D. Weinberg, invited the artist David Hammons to tour the museum’s still empty new building. Weinberg remembers them standing together at the panoramic fifth-floor window overlooking the Hudson and talking about the history of the waterfront facing the museum, about what was there and what was gone.
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