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W Hit Ne Y K Id S David Hammons Day's End Activity Guide K WHITNEY I D S DAVID HAMMONS DAY’S END ACTIVITY GUIDE WELCOME! Day’s End is a permanent public art project by David Hammons (b. 1943), located in Hudson River Park along the southern edge of Gansevoort Peninsula, directly across from the Whitney Museum. It was fabricated out of stainless steel and installed in 2021. This Whitney Kids activity guide is designed to introduce you to David Hammons, his artwork Day’s End, the ecology of the Hudson River, the history of the waterfront, and the Meatpacking District. We Support for education and interpretation Amanda and Don Mullen courtesy Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, programs associated with Day’s End is RXR Realty and Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago provided by the Joan Ganz Cooney and Holly State of New York hope it will inspire the artist in you, too! Peterson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, VIA Art Fund Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), Day’s End (Pier and an anonymous donor. Carol and Michael Weisman 52) (Exterior with Ice), 1975. © 2021 The Estate Susan and Benjamin Winter of Gordon Matta-Clark / Artists Rights Society The Day’s End public art project is also David Zwirner (ARS), New York. Courtesy The Estate of Gordon supported by generous funding from Anonymous Matta-Clark and David Zwirner City of New York Susan and Matthew Blank Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), Days End William T. Georgis and Richard D. Marshall Pier 52.3 (Documentation of the action “Day's The Keith Haring Foundation Robert Gober End” made in 1975 in New York, United States), Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Kranzberg Family Foundation 1975, printed 1977. Gelatin silver print: sheet, Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust Lois Plehn and Richard Plehn 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm); image, 7 x 9 3/4 in. Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation (17.8 x 24.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Judy Hart Angelo Art, New York; gift of Harold Berg 2017.134. Glenstone Foundation Special thanks to the artist, whose generous © 2021 Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark / Artists Allison and Warren Kanders support made this project possible. Rights Society (ARS), New York Nancy and Fred Poses Scott and Kimberly Resnick Generous support for Education Programs is Schematic for Day’s End, Pier 52, by Gordon Theory and Andrew Rosen provided by the William Randolph Hearst Matta-Clark, 1975. Canadian Centre for Anonymous Foundation, the Annenberg Foundation, GRoW Architecture, Montréal / Gift of Estate of @ Annenberg, Krystyna Doerfler, The Paul & Gordon Matta-Clark © The Estate of Gordon George Economou Karen Levy Family Foundation, Steven Tisch, Matta-Clark; CourCanadian Centre for K. Thomas Elghanayan and the and Laurie M. Tisch. Architecture, Montréal Corner Foundation Hauser & Wirth Major support is provided by Lise and Michael David Hammons (b. 1943), sketch for Day’s End, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Evans, Ronnie and Michael Kassan, Barry and 2014. Graphite on paper, 8 1/2 x 11 in. (21.6 x The Joyce and Irving Goldman Mimi Sternlicht, Burton P. and Judith B. Resnick, 27.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New Family Foundation and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. York; gift of the artist. 2021.11. © David Hammons Sonia and Gaurav Kapadia Keith and Peggy Anderson Family Foundation Significant support is provided by Kevin and Renderings of the proposed project Day’s End Lawton W. Fitt and James I. McLaren Foundation Rosemary McNeely, Manitou Fund. by David Hammons. Courtesy Guy Nordenson Liz and Eric Lefkofsky and Associates Karen and Paul Levy Additional support is provided by the Barker The Marlene Nathan Meyerson Welfare Foundation, Ashley Leeds and Gansevoort Street looking east, 2020. Family Foundation Christopher Harland, public funds from the New Photograph by Filip Wolak Crystal McCrary and Raymond J. McGuire Family York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Adriana and Robert Mnuchin partnership with the City Council, Diana Nelson, SS Kronprinz Wilhelm at Pier 52 (detail), c. 1901. Mike and Sukey Novogratz and the Whitney's Education Committee. Museum of the City of New York, 93.1.1.13637 Paul and Erin Pariser Thomas A. and Georgina T. Russo Free Guided Student Visits for New York City Ruth Orkin (1921–1985), Boy Diving into Hudson Fern and Lenard Tessler Public and Charter Schools are endowed River, Gansevoort Pier, New York City, 1947. by The Allen and Kelli Questrom Foundation. Gelatin silver print, 9 1/2 x 6 13/16 in. (24.1 x 17.3 cm). American Express Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Dathel and Tommy Coleman purchase with funds from the Photography Steven A. Denning and Roberta Bowman Denning Committee 2019.21. © Ruth Orkin The Diller – von Furstenberg Family Foundation and IAC Image credits Marine Company One on Pier 53, 2020. Bridgitt and Bruce Evans Photograph by Laura Protzel The Hanson and Oliver Families Dawoud Bey (b. 1953), David Hammons, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Bliz-aard Ball Sale I, 1983, printed 2019. Inkjet A boat on the Hudson River, 2015. Photograph Stephanie and Timothy Ingrassia print, 33 x 44 in. (83.8 x 111.8 cm). Whitney © MyMicrostock/Stocksy / Adobe Stock Check out whitney.org/Families for a full list of our The John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Museum of American Art, New York; purchase Dominique Lévy, Brett Gorvy, with funds from the Jack E. Chachkes Endowed Belgian granite blocks in the Meatpacking Lévy Gorvy Gallery Purchase Fund 2020.31. © Dawoud Bey District, 2021. Photograph by Jonathan Gorman Family Programs. Hammons helps us question what art can be. Choose DAVID an ordinary object and transform it into a work of art. HAMMONS What choices are you making? Draw it here. , 1983 David Hammons, Bliz-aard Ball Sale I Hammons, Bliz-aard David Dawoud Bey, Bey, Dawoud David Hammons’s art includes prints, installations, paintings, and performance. As one of the most influential artists working today, Hammons has reimagined what art can be. He often transforms discarded objects such as bottle caps, paper bags, and hair collected from the floors of Black barbershops so as to address issues of race and class. He’s made impossibly high basketball hoops from telephone poles covered in a mosaic of bottle caps, and even sold snowballs on a Manhattan sidewalk as works of art! DAY’S END Fun Facts Hammons’s Day’s End is made from an extra-strong kind of steel called Super-Duplex. It won’t rust or corrode even while standing in the water. The sculpture is 52 feet tall and 325 feet long—longer than a football field, or the (left) Gordon Matta-Clark, Day’s End (Pier 52) (Exterior with Ice), 1975. (top right) Gordon Matta-Clark, Days End Pier 52.3 (Documentation of the action "Day's End" made in 1975 in New York, United States), 1975. (bottom right) Schematic for Day’s Whitney Museum! End, Pier 52, by Gordon Matta-Clark, 1975 David Hammons’s Day’s End was inspired by Gordon Matta-Clark’s 1975 work of the same name. Both artists began their artworks with a sketch. Matta-Clark and his assistants cut five openings into the floor and walls The artist wanted the steel of the empty, run-down Pier 52 shed that occupied pieces to be as thin as the site in the 1970s. One observer even called it a “sun possible, so the sculpture and water temple” because of the ever-changing play would seem to disappear when of sunlight and water in the space. Hammons imagined the light was right. It’s not an open structure that follows the exact outlines, shape, lit at night, either. scale, and location of the Pier 52 shed that Matta-Clark used to make his Day’s End. Find a place to sit and gaze at Hammons’s Day’s End. SKETCH Look upward to the sky or across the river. Can you see a boat, a building, a bird, a cloud? Something else? Sketch what you see. by David Hammons David by Day’s End Day’s , 2014. (bottom) Renderings of the proposed project project the proposed of Renderings (bottom) , 2014. Day's End Day's (top) David Hammons, sketch for for Hammons, sketch David (top) If you designed a monument to honor the memory GHOST of someone or something, what would it look like? MONUMENT Draw it here. by David Hammons David by Day’s End Day’s Rendering of the proposed project the proposed of Rendering Hammons’s Day’s End is like a big line drawing in space. It shimmers and changes with the light and the weather. The artwork is not illuminated at night, so it disappears into the darkness at the end of the day. Its ghostly shape suggests a monument, too. A monument is a structure or a sculpture that honors the memory of a person or an event. This monument hints at the history of Pier 52, from its beginnings to today. Take some time to look at the land around you. What LENAPE LAND do you notice? Look toward the river. Write a list of descriptive words. Next, create a concrete poem by arranging the words in a specific shape or pattern. Gansevoort Street looking east, 2020 Street Gansevoort The Lenape are the original inhabitants of the area now known as the Meatpacking District. The name Manhattan comes from the Lenape word Manahatta, which means “the land of many hills.” The Whitney Museum is located near the Lenape fishing and planting site called Sapponckanikan, which translates as “the land of tobacco growth.” The Dutch sailed into Manahatta in 1609 and established a settlement on the island. The Lenape soon faced violence and disease brought by the Europeans.
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